Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
By: Robert Bilott
4.50
Format: 400 pages, ebook
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1. Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang
By: T.J. English
3.93
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
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2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
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3. A Civil Action
By: Jonathan Harr
4.09
Format: None pages,
This is the true story of an epic courtroom showdown. Two of the nation's largest corporations stan… read more
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4. The Second Shift
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild , Anne Machung
4.15
Format: None pages,
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5. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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6. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
By: Kevin Poulsen
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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8. The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won
By: Gerald M. Stern
4.16
Format: 384 pages,
One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst,… read more
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9. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
By: Dan Fagin
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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10. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
12. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
By: Alden Wicker
4.32
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
By: Lesley M.M. Blume
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter un… read more
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"History is history,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"Hiroshima was a decimated “death laboratory"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
"War is ethically totally different from peace,"-Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
14. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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15. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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16. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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17. 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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"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
18. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
By: Robert Bilott
4.50
Format: 400 pages, ebook
“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist.” —The New York Times Book Review … read more
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19. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
By: Hope Jahren
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our t… read more
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"All measures of conservation, as well as all technologies meant to wean us from fossil fuels, are worth pursuing in the same way that doing something is always more than doing nothing."-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"We are strong and lucky. Our planet is home to many who struggle to survive on too little. The fact that we are of the group with food, shelter, and clean water obligates us not to give up on the wor…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"Convincing people to examine their energy use is like trying to get them to quit smoking or eat more healthfully: they already know that they should do it, but there is a billion-dollar industry work…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"All species will go extinct eventually, even our own: it is one of nature's few imperatives. As of today, however, that train has not quite left the station. We still have some control over our demis…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
20. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
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21. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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22. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
By: Corban Addison
4.46
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
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23. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
By: Eliza Griswold
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how frackin… read more
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24. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more
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25. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
By: Eric Eyre
4.07
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
An investigation into the corporate and governmental greed that pumped millions of pain pills into … read more
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26. Tower of Lies: What My 18 Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals About Him
By: Barbara A. Res
4.28
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
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27. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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28. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
By: Anna Clark
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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29. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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30. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
By: Clayton Page Aldern
3.99
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31. Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
By: Heather McTeer Toney
4.24
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