Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
By: Corban Addison
4.46
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
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1. An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
By: Oliver Horovitz
4.28
Format: 0 pages, MP3 CD
In the middle of Oliver Horovitz's high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone It was Harvard.… read more
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2. 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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3. 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
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"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
4. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
By: Paul Pringle
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more
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5. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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6. 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
7. Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
By: Douglas Frantz
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky w… read more
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8. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
9. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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11. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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13. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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14. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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15. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
By: Earl Swift
3.98
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
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16. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
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17. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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18. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
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19. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
By: Corban Addison
4.46
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can … read more
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20. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more
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21. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
By: David S. Tatel
4.48
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
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