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  • The Alice Network: A Novel

    Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLEROne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the Year!A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0062654195
    • ASIN: 0062654195
    • ISBN: 0062654195
    • Brand: MORROW
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

  • Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch


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    • ASIN: B0054LJGWS
    • ASIN: B0054LJGWS
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall Street JournalIn this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War. When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1101980990
    • ASIN: 1101980990
    • ISBN: 1101980990
    • Manufacturer: Viking

  • Things Fall Apart


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    • ASIN: 0385474547
    • ASIN: 0385474547
    • ISBN: 0385474547
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • And Then There Were None

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead."Eight . . ."Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die."Seven . . ."Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?
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    • ASIN: 0062073486
    • ASIN: 0062073486
    • ISBN: 0062073486
    • Brand: Harper
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to be called a hero.”—The Washington Post In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization—the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country’s conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0812994760
    • ASIN: 0812994760
    • ISBN: 0812994760
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Girl with Seven Names

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”?Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North K... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0007554850
    • ASIN: 0007554850
    • ISBN: 0007554850
    • Brand: William Collins
    • Manufacturer: William Collins

  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • 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.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. . . . As Juliet an... [Read More]
    Best British Authors 20th Century

    • ASIN: 0385341008
    • ASIN: 0385341008
    • ISBN: 9780385341004
    • Brand: Dial Press
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

  • Never Let Me Go

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.   As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern cla... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1400078776
    • ASIN: 1400078776
    • ISBN: 9781400078776
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive accoun... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0465062881
    • ASIN: 0465062881
    • ISBN: 0465062881
    • Brand: DA CAPO PRESS
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

  • Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

    The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert
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    Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is

    • UPC: 620362
    • Rating: 3.744

  • Queen Unseen : My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century

    For more than a decade, Peter Hince worked alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world andheading up their road crew. Here he recalls the highlights ofthose years. He was with Freddie Mercurywhen he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love;" he made sure that Freddie's stage performances went without a hitch; and he was often there to witnessFreddie's famed tantrums. He was also party to the sex, drugs, and rockand roll. Packed with Peter's own photos, including never-before-seenshots of Freddie and his female loverMary, this warm and witty book is a must-read for any
    Best British Authors 20th Century
    For more than a decade, Peter Hince worked alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and heading up their road crew. Here he recalls the highlights of those years. He was with Freddie Mercury when he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love;" he made sure that Freddie's stage performances went without a hitch; and he was often there to witness Freddie's famed tantrums. He was also party to the sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Packed with Peter's own photos, including never-before-seen shots of Freddie and his female lover Mary, this warm and witty book is a must-read for any Queen

    • UPC: 49365099

  • On the Road : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

    Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to
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    The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationSeptember 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the RoadInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American

    • UPC: 620358
    • Rating: 3.346

  • The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century - eBook

    Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include:“Superiority”: Arthur C. Clarke presents an intergalactic war in which one side’s own advanced weaponry may actually lead to its ultimate defeat.“Dragonrider”: A tale of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern, in which magic tips the scales of survival.“Second Variety”: Philip K. Dick, author of the short story that became the movie Blade Runner,
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    The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century - eBook

    • UPC: 967602528
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

    LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PASTH. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination with the subject, the greatest visionary writers of the twentieth century penned some of their finest stories. Here are eighteen of the most exciting tales ever told, including“Time’s Arrow” In Arthur C. Clarke’s classic, two brilliant physicists finally crack the mystery of time travel—with appalling consequences.“Death Ship” Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time, unveils a chilling scenario concerning three astronauts who stumble upon
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    The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

    • UPC: 708674131
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Top 10 Classic English Language Authors

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    Top 10 20th Century Novels

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    Top 10 Most Popular Modern Authors

    Sometimes you read a book that you just can’t put down... And other times you find an author whose books you can’t stop reading! Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top...
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