Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
In Mediterranean Winter, Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, relives an austere journey he…
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1. Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
By: Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman
3.97
Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback
As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.… read more
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"You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment"-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
"To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices."-Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
2. 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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- history
- greece
"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
3. L'Herbe des nuits
By: Patrick Modiano
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
' Jean... Qu'est-ce que tu dirais si j'avais fait quelque chose de grave ? ' J'avoue que cette ques… read more
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4. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. In the Café of Lost Youth
By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron
3.53
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Lau… read more
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"Quand on aime vraiment quelqu'un, il faut accepter sa part de mystère... et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime..."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth
6. A Year in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
7. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more
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8. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
By: John Julius Norwich
3.81
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbi… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
- travel
9. Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia and the Peloponnese
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.93
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
In Mediterranean Winter, Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, relives an austere journey he… read more
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- italy
- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- tunisia
- greece
10. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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11. Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way
By: Lars Mytting
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson-like thriller; it's a book abo… read more
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12. Problem at Pollensa Bay (Hercule Poirot, #40)
By: Agatha Christie
3.74
Format: 70 pages,
Problem at Pollensa Bay - Parker Pyne The Second Gong - Poirot Yellow Iris - Poirot The Harlequin T… read more
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13. The Liars' Club
By: Mary Karr
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
14. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
By: Christopher Hitchens , Rebecca West
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, an… read more
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15. A Time to Keep Silence
By: Karen Armstrong , Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classi… read more
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16. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- history
17. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
18. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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- history
19. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more
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"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)
20. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Old Woman with the Knife
By: Gu Byeong-mo
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more
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