Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
By: Earl Swift
4.10
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middl…
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1. Janesville: An American Story
By: None , Amy Goldstein
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ … read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
By: Rory Stewart
4.08
Format: 348 pages, ebook
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the landsca… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
3. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
By: Rinker Buck
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's "The Oregon Trail" is a… read more
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- travel
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
4. Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
By: Neil Swidey
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
5. Apollo 8
By: Jeffrey Kluger
0.00
Format: None pages,
In August 1968, one short year after three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, NASA… read more
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6. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
By: John Barth , William W. Warner
4.00
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
William Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning st… read more
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7. The Edge Chronicles 6: Midnight Over Sanctaphrax: Third Book of Twig
By: Chris Riddell , Paul Stewart
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twig Verginix has gained a formidable reputation as the young sky pirate captain who dared to sail … read more
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8. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
By: Simon Winchester
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetim… read more
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9. High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
By: Jessica B. Harris
4.15
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foo… read more
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10. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
By: Monica Hesse
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more
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11. Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia
By: Carmen Bin Ladin
4.01
Format: 532 pages,
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12. Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
By: Amy Brady
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat,… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
13. American Spirits
By: Russell Banks
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more
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14. 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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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
"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
15. The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth
By: Dan Buettner
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The creator of National Geographic's popular Blue Zones—now a documentary on Netflix—brings readers… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
16. A Colony in a Nation
By: Christopher L. Hayes
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end."-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion."-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"Part of the genius of the rhetoric of law and order is that as a principle (rather than a practice), it can be sold as the ultimate call for equality: We all deserve the law. We all deserve order. Al…"-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only a concern with order. In the Nation, you have rights; in the Colony, you have commands. In the Nation, you are innocent until proven guilty; …"-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
17. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
By: Earl Swift
4.10
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middl… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- history
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
19. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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20. The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
By: Julie Satow
3.79
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined … read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
By: Judith Tick
3.75
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovat… read more
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- history
- audiobook
22. Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan
By: Scott Mann
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Bere… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
By: Mondiant Dogon
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus A st… read more
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- history
- audiobook
24. Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States
By: Colin Quinn
3.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In Colin Quinn's new book, the popular comedian, social commentator, and star of the shows Red Stat… read more
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- history
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When you moved, you didn't know know your drug addict cousins were going to follow you and ruin everything and use your good name to get people to trust them. Well, that's the history of America. It …"-Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States
25. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
By: Katherine Sharp Landdeck
4.20
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling true story of the daring female aviators who helped the United States win World War I… read more
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- history
- audiobook
26. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
By: Alia Volz
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky … read more
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- history
- audiobook
28. In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
By: J.P. Daughton
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic po… read more
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- history
29. Murder at the Rusty Anchor (A Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, #6)
By: Maddie Day
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
There’s deadweight behind the bar at the Rusty Anchor and it’s up to Cape Cod bike shop owner Macke… read more
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30. The Substitution Order
By: Martin Clark
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wic… read more
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31. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future
By: Robert P. Jones
4.55
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more
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- history
- politics
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