Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a …
Want to Read $ 13.99"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
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1. The Summer Before the War
By: Helen Simonson
3.78
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love an… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Smile,"-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
2. The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
By: Bill Maher
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and host of HBO's Real Time, Bill Maher's new book of political riffs serve… read more
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- audiobook
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- war
4. Vietnam: A History
By: Stanley Karnow
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced account we have."--Boston Globe. "Superb, balance… read more
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- war
5. Sex and Stravinsky
By: Barbara Trapido
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1995, but everybody is linked by their past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command … read more
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6. Other Paths to Glory
By: Anthony Price
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Paul Mitchell spends his days researching WWI; his quiet life in the library can hardly be in great… read more
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7. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
8. His Forefathers and Mick
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
"His forefathers and Mick", traces the riveting saga of the Kramer family across three tumultuous g… read more
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- novels
"Adrian blew his whistle and shouted, “Attack and put too death all those who oppose the fatherland!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!"-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
"Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."-Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick
9. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
By: K. Ritz
4.33
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
10. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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- war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
11. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
12. The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
By: Michael Wyndham Thomas
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
1967. The Summer of Love. Not for Jonathan Parry, perhaps, but certainly a time of big he and his … read more
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- novels
- fiction
"All happened so damn fast,"-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
13. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
14. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
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- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
15. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
16. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- historical
- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
17. Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more
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- world war ii
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- historical fiction
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"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
18. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By: Hilary Mantel
4.33
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more
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- british literature
"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
19. In Our Mad and Furious City
By: Guy Gunaratne
3.87
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it do… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
20. Commune
By: Des Kennedy
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This is the spellbinding story of six young dreamers who set out from Vancouver in the seventies to… read more
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21. 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before you Die
By: Elizabeth Stamp
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The most interesting bookstores in the world, collected in one beautifully bound volumeAfter 150 Ba… read more
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