A book about an object that changed the world

Between the Lines 2025 Reading Challenge Book Prompt #10

Updated December 13, 2024
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The gunslinger
King, Stephen
Paper Book
The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David Wenzelâe(tm)s comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkienâe(tm)s The Hobbit was an immediate success and has become one of the best-loved...
Kill chain : drones and the rise of the high-tech assassins
Cockburn, Andrew
Paper Book
Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that...
The last days of night : a novel
Moore, Graham
Audiobook
The librarian spy : a novel of World War II
Martin, Madeline
Ebook
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER--for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! "Readers will be on the edge of their seats....  A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope."  -Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The...
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A beautiful paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Four adventurous siblings âe" Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie âe" step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen...
Switchboard soldiers : a novel
Chiaverini, Jennifer
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I--the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the...
The time machine
Wells, H. G.
Paper Book
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings-...

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