The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy
8 best books like The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth- Century Italy (Frances Stonor Saunders): Bridge of Birds, Dubliners, Homeland, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters, Sojourn, Exile
| Author | Barry Hughart |
| ISBN | 0345321383 |
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.
The quest led them to a host of...
| Author | James Joyce |
| ISBN | 0192839993 |
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well,...
| Author | R.A. Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0786939532 |
Drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre's standout characters. But Homeland first reveals the startling tale of how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark, leaving behind a society of evil and a...
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| Author | Ken Liu |
| ISBN | 1481442546 |
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393352609 |
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an...
| Author | Bernard Glassman |
| ISBN | 0517888297 |
A nice follow-up to the movie "How to Cook Your Life". I like the practicality of Zen. The stories about creating social sustainability from the ingredients at hand were truly inspiring. I'll look to the wisdom in this book to bring me right back where I need to be when I get wound up and overwhelmed. Some...
| Author | R.A. Salvatore |
| ISBN | 1560760478 |
Drizzt the Dark Elf comes to the surface world and tries to find his place in there. Nobody wants a dark elf living among people (wood elves, dwarves, etc.) due to firm belief dark elves are up to no good. There, I just gave you away the plot of the whole book, all 300 pages of it. Does it sound boring? If it does...
| Author | R.A. Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0786939834 |
A buddy read with Kristen, Gavin, and Kaora.
This book picks up right where the first one ended. For this reason I cannot give any big details about plot as they will spoil the ending of the first book. Sufficient to say Drizzt is still alive which is not a big surprise as this is the second book of...
