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mivade rated Desert Notebooks: 3 stars
1177 B.C by Eric H. Cline (Turning points in ancient history)
"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to …
mivade rated Too Like the Lightning: 2 stars
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
mivade rated Leaving orbit: 5 stars
mivade rated History of What Comes Next: 2 stars
History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel (Take Them to the Stars, #1)
mivade rated A Square Meal: 3 stars
mivade rated Thunderstruck: 4 stars
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a …
mivade rated A Clockwork Orange: 4 stars
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is …
mivade rated A short history of nearly everything: 4 stars
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas …
mivade rated The Beast in the Garden: 3 stars
mivade rated Nemesis Games: 5 stars
Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest …
mivade rated The Underground Railroad: 3 stars
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
mivade rated Deep Creek: 3 stars
mivade rated The Plot Against America: 4 stars
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 …