Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
By: Thomas Cahill
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
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1. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
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2. 10 lb Penalty
By: Dick Francis
3.95
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By: Martin Gilbert
3.98
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4. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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5. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou… read more
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6. Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
By: Thomas Cahill
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
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7. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
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3.83
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8. The Wordy Shipmates
By: Sarah Vowell
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
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9. The Lost World of Byzantium
By: Jonathan Harris
4.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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By: Gregg Lewis , None
3.75
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11. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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13. A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
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14. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
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3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
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16. A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily, #17)
By: Tasha Alexander
3.81
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17. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.58
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
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18. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
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4.29
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19. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate (Volume 5) (The Lost World Series)
By: Tremper Longman III
4.00
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"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it… read more
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21. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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22. The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
By: Nancy R. Pearcey
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How the Script for Masculinity Turned Toxic--and How to Fix It "Why Can't We Hate Men?" asks a hea… read more
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23. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
By: Deborah Heiligman
4.00
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Con… read more
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"Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh"-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
"I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
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24. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By: Matt Kracht
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more
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25. On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
By: James K.A. Smith
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of… read more
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"Attainment is a goddess who quickly turns a cold shoulder."-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
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26. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
By: Philip D'Anieri
3.58
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27. The Guest Lecture
By: Martin Riker
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to he… read more
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28. The Surprising Genius of Jesus: What the Gospels Reveal about the Greatest Teacher
By: Peter J. Williams
4.17
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"Esau had reason to be angry, but he responded warmly to his brother's return. If even a person like Esau, who had previously planned to murder his brother, could accept his returning brother, how muc…"-Peter J. Williams, The Surprising Genius of Jesus: What the Gospels Reveal about the Greatest Teacher
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29. American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
By: Nina Sankovitch
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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30. The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
By: Christopher de Hamel
4.22
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Manuscripts Men tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who … read more
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