Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Barry Meier
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e…
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1. The Wizard of Lies
By: Diana B. Henriques
3.77
Format: None pages,
The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking ne… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
2. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
By: Matt Ridley
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraor… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
By: David Sheff
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research Addict… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- health
4. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more
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5. In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire
By: Charles Constant , Peter Hellman
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Audio CD
Few gain entry to the privileged world of ultrafine wines, where billionaires flock to exclusive au… read more
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6. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
By: John Temple
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the Edgar(r) Award in Best Fact Crime. Nominee for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of t… read more
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7. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
8. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
9. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
10. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
By: Barry Meier
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more
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- history
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- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
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- audiobook
11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
12. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
13. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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- science
- history
- true crime
- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- crime
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14. The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
By: Evan Hughes
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers--until… read more
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- science
- history
- true crime
- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- crime
- business
- audiobook
15. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
By: Scott C. Johnson
3.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
18. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Chris McGreal
4.15
Format: 336 pages, ebook
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
By: Mark Chiusano
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turnin… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
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20. The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets
By: Nathaniel Popper
3.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of an improbable gang of self-proclaimed “degenerates” who made WallStreetBets i… read more
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- business
- audiobook
21. Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
By: Mary L. Gray
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workfor… read more
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- business
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"Automation vs. human labor is a false dichotomy"-Mary L. Gray, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
"The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans."-Mary L. Gray, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
"When industries fixate on automating jobs away, they paradoxically spoke demand for ghost work, shredding the social contract between employer and worker in their wake."-Mary L. Gray, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
"It took organized labor and the collective action of workers to make full-time employment in the semi-automated world of industrial manufacturing inhabitable. Unfortunately, the valorization and vali…"-Mary L. Gray, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
