Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
By: Ed West
3.99
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Venice: Pure City
By: Peter Ackroyd
3.60
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place fro… read more
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"Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade."-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City
"Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere."-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City
"To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone."-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City
"Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?"-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City
2. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
By: Benjamin R. Merkle
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the En… read more
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3. Innocent Traitor
By: Alison Weir
3.97
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live. Historical expe… read more
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"I prefer to be left alone with my books."-Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
"There are too many Dudleys already in this world"-Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
"You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none"-Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
"My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags."-Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor
4. The Norman Conquest
By: Marc Morris
4.62
Format: None pages,
An epic tale, with violence at its heart, and a triumph of narrative history. The Norman Conquestst… read more
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5. The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)
By: Dorothy Dunnett
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Dunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elast… read more
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6. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
By: Dan Jones
4.00
Format: 268 pages,
Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more
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7. 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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8. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
By: Andrew Brown , Shlomo Venezia , Umberto Gentiloni Silveri , Marcello Pezzetti , Simone Veil , None , None
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged … read more
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9. The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
By: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
3.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Capta… read more
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10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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12. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- adult
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- audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
13. The Last Hope
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more
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14. Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
By: Ed West
3.99
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and concise look at the beginnings of English history, when the nation consolidated after c… read more
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15. Ghosts: The Button House Archives
By: Mathew Baynton
4.56
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS. Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button Hou… read more
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16. The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
By: Alison Weir
4.09
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, … read more
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17. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
By: Alison Weir
4.02
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more
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18. The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip
By: Karen Dolby
3.74
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE has been at the forefront of British publ… read more
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19. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
By: Sue Burke
3.91
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more
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"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
20. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
By: Andrew Lownie
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more
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"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
21. The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
By: Helen Carr
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all th… read more
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22. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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23. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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24. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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25. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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26. … And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
By: Norman Baker
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
... And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant us… read more
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27. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By: Valerie Hansen
3.69
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e… read more
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28. Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End
By: Christopher Kerr
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Ch… read more
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29. A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
By: Philip Matyszak
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
One hundred vivid portraits of real-life characters bring to life the highs and lows of Rome’s dram… read more
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