Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
By: Curt Brown
3.85
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put c…
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1. Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
By: Nick Reding
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of the methamphetamine epidemic as it sweeps the American heartland a timely, mo… read more
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"We invariably come back to testing as a means of understanding drug use, even though assuming these tests lead to truth puts one on shaky ground. You simply can't prove something to be true or false …"-Nick Reding, Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
2. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
By: William Kent Krueger
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown th… read more
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"What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve."-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
"Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" "He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things." "-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
" They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that th…"-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)
3. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.88
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more
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"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
4. Main Street
By: Sinclair Lewis
3.78
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherw… read more
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"They had something to do. They could escape from themselves."-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
5. Life on the Mississippi
By: Mark Twain , Justin Kaplan
3.88
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognit… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #7)
By: Jodi Taylor
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never be… read more
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7. Boundary Waters (Cork O'Connor, #2)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Quetico-Superior more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted isla… read more
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8. Best to Laugh
By: Lorna Landvik
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" But as a child,… read more
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9. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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10. Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart
By: Rhoda R. Gilman
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--no person played a longer, more influ… read more
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11. And the Rest is History (The Chronicles of St Mary’s, #8)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.00
Format: None pages,
No one knows quite how, but Max and her baby are safe at last. No one knows quite how, but Peterson… read more
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12. Devil at My Heels
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
3.86
Format: None pages,
The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more
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13. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
By: John M. Barry
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, move… read more
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14. Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon
By: Larry Millett
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
When a cunning villain sets out to destroy the Great Northern railway in America, Holmes comes face… read more
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15. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By: Erik Larson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more
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16. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- history
17. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
18. Reykjavík: A Crime Story
By: Ragnar Jónasson
3.66
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more
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19. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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20. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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21. 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
22. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
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23. Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
By: Curt Brown
3.85
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put c… read more
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24. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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25. Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
By: Samuel G. Freedman
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the Am… read more
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26. A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection
By: Harry Bliss
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller • Washington Post Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • Los An… read more
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27. What Does It Mean to Be Chosen?: An Interactive Bible Study (The Chosen Bible Study Series, #1)
By: Amanda Jenkins
4.52
Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition
The #1 bestseller in New Testament Commentaries. Over 200,000 copies sold! This is the official co… read more
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28. Dick Bremer: Game Used: My Life in Stitches with the Minnesota Twins
By: Dick Bremer
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dick Bremer’s distinctive baritone has served as the soundtrack of Minnesota Twins baseball for ove… read more
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29. Black Cordite, White Snow: A Minnesotan Prohibition Thriller (Crooks' Haven Book 1)
By: Nate Granzow
4.34
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
Minnesota's winter is freezing cold, but its market for guns has never been hotter. February 192… read more
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30. Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History
By: Gary Clayton Anderson
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what… read more
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31. They Played for the Love of the Game: Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
By: Frank M. White
4.09
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was… read more
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