American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi…
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1. 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
2. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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3. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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4. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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5. Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
By: Roy A. Meals
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining illustrated deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the lates… read more
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6. 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
7. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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8. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
9. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- african american
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10. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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11. Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
By: Stephan Talty
3.95
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen… read more
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12. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more
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13. Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
By: Sarah DiGregorio
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the … read more
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14. The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
By: Brian H. Williams
4.43
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all Trauma su… read more
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15. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
By: Mark Whitaker
4.29
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“ Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other black renaissance and spend time with … read more
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16. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir
By: Priyanka Mattoo
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more
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17. The Jinn Daughter
By: Rania Hanna
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut novel and an impressive feat of storytelling that pulls together mythology, magic,… read more
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"I have wishes, too,"-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter
"The dead have been dropping all night."-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter
"Youth and foolishness share the same bed."-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter
"I hate lying to my daughter’s face, but her questions have plagued me for years."-Rania Hanna, The Jinn Daughter
18. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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19. The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments
By: Corey Mead
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveal… read more
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20. Nothing. Everything
By: Virginia Montanez
4.56
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
To her children, her pushy mother, her preacher father and her four seemingly perfect brothers, YA … read more
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21. A Farm Life: Observations from Fields and Forests
By: Daryln Brewer Hoffstot
4.35
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Daryln Brewer Hoffstot has observed the fields and forests of her Western Pennsylvania farm for thi… read more
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