Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
By: Kim MacQuarrie
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin …
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1. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.05
Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and … read more
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- historical
"Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
2. Lost City of the Incas
By: Hugh Thomson , Hiram Bingham
3.52
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city o… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
3. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Life and Death in Shanghai
By: Nien Cheng
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
By: Holly Conklin FitzGerald
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz--married less than two years--set out on a yearlong honeymoo… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adventure
6. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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7. Possible Side Effects
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.90
Format: 144 pages,
National Bestseller From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Running with Scissorscomes Augu… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
By: Kim MacQuarrie
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America's mountain spine, from Charles Darwin … read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
- geography
- latin american history
9. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
By: Mark Bowden
3.66
Format: None pages,
Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cart… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
By: Jonathan Weiner
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize On a desert island in the he… read more
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11. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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12. When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival
By: Juliane Koepcke
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The author was 17 years old when she survived an airplane explosion. Her survival is unexplainable … read more
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13. The Matisse Stories
By: A.S. Byatt
3.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse—from the Booker Prize-winning auth… read more
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"It is not flippant to see a painting in a predicament."-A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
"Her fingers remembered the slow, careful work in the wood, with a quiet grief, that didn't diminish, but was manageable."-A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
14. Death in the Andes
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred.… read more
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15. Valley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu
By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
North by northwest from old Santa Feis the winding road to Abiquiu (ah-be-cue'), Ghost Ranch, and e… read more
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16. Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
By: Giles Tremlett
3.66
Format: 32 pages,
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing … read more
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17. Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
By: Mark Adams
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
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18. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more
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"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
19. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- historical
- nonfiction
20. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
21. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
22. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- history
23. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
24. La palabra del mudo
By: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
4.37
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
Los cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro, a pesar de su versatilidad, configuran un mundo narrativo orgán… read more
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25. The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes
By: Orin Starn
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of gl… read more
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- history
- latin american history
26. In the Shadow of the Mountain
By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the… read more
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- nonfiction
- adventure
"We protect us."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"The host always said: 'Nothing you do is small. Everything begins from there."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even thought I rarely believed it myself, whenever I spoke it aloud, the dream grew. No matter how absurd it sounded, how impossible it seemed, dreaming got me closer to executing."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even while recuperating, we have to keep active. If you don't move at all, you're more likely to get sick. Continuous motion is the best way to manipulate our bodies into believing that we can fully …"-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
27. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. La sangre de la aurora
By: Claudia Salazar Jiménez
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
En La sangre de la aurora los destinos de tres mujeres se entrelazan y se desgarran durante lo que … read more
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- historical
"I overhear the soldiers whispering. That terrorist looks a bit butch. They laugh. I turn to glare right into their mindless sheep eyes and they stiffen, pretend they don't see me. Miserable fools. Wh…"-Claudia Salazar Jiménez, La sangre de la aurora
29. On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
By: Paul Theroux
4.03
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
"In the casual opinion of most Americans, I am an old man, and therefore of little account, past my best, fading in a pathetic diminuendo while flashing his AARP card; like the old in America generall…"-Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
30. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
By: Alec Karakatsanis
4.39
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more
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- history
31. Being Ram Dass
By: Ram Dass
4.60
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.”… read more
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