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What do readers say about Quiet?
extensive notes and research disjointed and shallow fascinating and compelling well-organized and engaging#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts-and how introverts see themselves-by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration
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Carnegie’s metamorphosis from farmboy to salesman to public-speaking icon is also the story of the rise of the Extrovert Ideal. Carnegie’s journey reflected a cultural evolution that reached a tipping...
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What do readers say about SPQR?
highly readable, fascinating rome the empire early roman history a wonderful bookNew York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)... More details on SPQR
OUR HISTORY OF ancient Rome begins in the middle of the first century BCE, more than 600 years after the city was founded. It begins with promises of revolution, with a terrorist conspiracy to destroy...
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What do readers say about The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society?
fun and light letter writing format a hidden pig post world war ii#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
"Treat yourself to this book, please-I can't recommend it highly enough."-El... More details on The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society
Susan just gave me the sales figures for Izzy?I can scarcely believe them. I honestly thought everyone would be so weary of the war that no one would want a remembrance of it?and certainly not in a bo...
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What do readers say about The French Revolution?
novel-like and very approachable a narrative history the revolution's violence lucid, elegant styleConcise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from ... More details on The French Revolution
In a quiet corner of the park at Versailles stands that delightful little pavilion of honey-coloured stone known as the Petit Trianon. Designed for Madame de Pompadour, King Louis XV’s entertaining mi...
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What do readers say about The Name of the Wind?
engaging and beautifully done readable and engaging classical high fantasy medieval europe inspired fantasyDAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND
My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the Unive... More details on The Name of the Wind
Old Cob was filling his role as storyteller and advice dispensary. The men at the bar sipped their drinks and listened. In the back room a young innkeeper stood out of sight behind the door, smiling a...
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What do readers say about Catherine the Great?
scope and scholarship a fictional novel an enlightening portrait narrative telling style"[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller."-The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another maste... More details on Catherine the Great
PRINCE CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS of Anhalt-Zerbst was hardly distinguishable in the swarm of obscure, penurious noblemen who cluttered the landscape and society of politically fragmented eighteenth-century G...
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What do readers say about On Desperate Ground?
it was really interesting more readable and engaging incredibly well-researched account the frozen chosin"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story - the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir - has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh res... More details on On Desperate Ground
Major General Oliver Prince Smith, fifty-six years old, was a cerebral, soft-spoken man whose habits seemed atypical of a gung-ho Marine. There was no bluster in his demeanor. A Berkeley graduate who ...
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What do readers say about Soulless?
well-paced and executed london's integration of supernaturals witty and vibrant light hearted, humorous toneBuffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many so... More details on Soulless
Miss Alexia Tarabotti was not enjoying her evening. Private balls were never more than middling amusements for spinsters, and Miss Tarabotti was not the kind of spinster who could garner even that muc...
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What do readers say about Fool Moon?
enjoyable and well written exciting and funny urban gothic fun very graphic and violent"One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves,"(Cinescape) the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and nonstop fun. Fool Moon continues the adventures of Jim Butcher's most fam... More details on Fool Moon
Inever used to keep close track of the phases of the moon. So I didn’t know that it was one night shy of being full when a young woman sat down across from me in McAnally’s pub and asked me to tell he...
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What do readers say about Look Who's Back?
a merciless satire reduced price audio book a definite must read modern german lifeHE'S BACK AND HE'S FUHRIOUS!
"Desperately funny . . . An ingenious comedy of errors." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
" Satire at its best ." --Newsweek
In this record-breaking bestseller, Timur Vermes imagines what would happen if Adolf Hil... More details on Look Who's Back
I remember waking up; it must have been early afternoon. Opening my eyes I saw above me the sky, which was blue with the occasional cloud. It felt warm, and I sensed at once that it was too warm for A...
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