The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
By: Joanna Kavenna
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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1. Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.25
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiff… read more
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"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do,"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)
2. Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic
By: George James Grinnell , George Luste
3.68
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe vo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
3. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
By: Ian Fleming
3.64
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more
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- adventure
"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
4. What Am I Doing Here?
By: Bruce Chatwin
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is a… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
5. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
By: Dominic Smith
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds people… read more
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6. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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7. The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
By: Joanna Kavenna
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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- nature
- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- geography
- mythology
8. Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
By: Ken McGoogan
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of hono… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
9. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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10. Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
By: Lee Child
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child's new "rip-roaring thriller" ("Denver Rocky Mountain News"). This… read more
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11. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more
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12. Smilla's Sense of Snow
By: Peter Høeg , Tiina Nunnally
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, scie… read more
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13. Dark Matter
By: Michelle Paver
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poo… read more
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14. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
15. The Twisted Ones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more
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"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
16. The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
By: Maja Lunde
3.81
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut fol… read more
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- nature
"We are nothing without passion."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"You do know he loves to write. He always has."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
17. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
18. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
By: Silvia Federici
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
21. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
