Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
By: Al Roker
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. Private Royals (Private, #12.5)
By: James Patterson , Rees Jones
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. Jack Morgan is visiting … read more
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2. Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flowis a prescriptive guide that helps us re… read more
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3. Nine Inches: Stories
By: Tom Perrotta
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
"Nine Inches," Tom Perrotta's first true collection, features ten short stories, some sharp and fun… read more
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4. The Angry Wife
By: Pearl S. Buck
3.78
Format: None pages,
Indonesian edition Dua kakak-beradik, dua istri, dua dunia... Tom dan Pierce Delaney sama-sama ikut… read more
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6. I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
By: Charles Brandt
4.12
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint hou… read more
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7. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- environment
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
8. Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection)
By: Marie Benedict
3.62
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
For pilot Ruth Nichols, a soaring rivalry with Amelia Earhart becomes a deep friendship in a short … read more
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9. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
By: Carol Leonnig
4.24
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more
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10. Canary Girls
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more
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11. The White Darkness
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrill… read more
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"Passion for something can easily tip into obsession, which is a dangerous thing, especially when those affected are they very people who so loyally stand and wait. -Henry Worsley"-David Grann, The White Darkness
12. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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13. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
14. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
15. Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
By: Al Roker
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“ Reads like a nail-biting thriller.” — Library Journal, starred review A gripping new history cele… read more
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16. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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17. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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18. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
19. Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
By: Stacy Horn
3.63
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-… read more
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20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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21. Confessions of the Dead
By: James Patterson
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The dead tell no tales…unless they swam in Cemetery Lake. Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a pict… read more
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