Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and def…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
By: Richard Zacks
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A real-life thriller -- the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates t… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
3. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
4. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more
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"they are mystified by certain instances."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)
5. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
6. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. Love's Labour's Lost
By: William Shakespeare , Henry R. Woudhuysen
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To begin the introduction, the editor discusses the link between Love's Labour's Lostand the writin… read more
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8. Revelations of Divine Love
By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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- history
11. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
12. The Swiss Family Robinson
By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more
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- adventure
"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson
13. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
14. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- world history
16. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and def… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- world history
- adventure
- nonfiction
- european history
17. The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, #9)
By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The Age of Voltaire (Volume 9): A biography of a great man and the period he embodied. We witness V… read more
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18. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
By: Thomas Sowell
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it pos…"-Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
19. Peace Like a River
By: Leif Enger
4.09
Format: 315 pages,
Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more
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20. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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21. Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
By: Paul Johnson
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity. Do the priv… read more
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22. Ivanhoe
By: Walter Scott
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more
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23. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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24. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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25. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
By: Laurence Bergreen
4.67
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year… read more
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26. Ramona
By: Helen Hunt Jackson , Michael Dorris , Valerie Sherer Mathes
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. S… read more
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27. The Old Curiosity Shop
By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page
3.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more
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28. Agent 355
By: Marie Benedict
3.73
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more
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29. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
By: Laurence Bergreen
3.91
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more
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- world history
- adventure
- nonfiction
- european history
30. The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe
By: Stephen C. Meyer
4.43
Format: 576 pages, ebook
The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents gro… read more
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- history
31. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
By: Peter Schweizer
4.41
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. … read more
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