From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
3.82
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House…
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1. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
By: Alyssa Mastromonaco , None
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her beh… read more
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- audiobook
2. Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
By: David Litt
3.91
Format: 337 pages, ebook
Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
By: Rebecca Paley , Betty Halbreich
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straig… read more
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4. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
5. Funny Story
By: Emily Henry
4.27
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"No, no, no,"-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
6. Romantic Comedy
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.64
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more
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- audiobook
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"Just to be clear,"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
7. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
8. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
9. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
10. Rodham
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.83
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a d… read more
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- politics
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- contemporary
"There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
"I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
11. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By: Ben Rhodes
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Oba… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"For a moment, we all just stared out the window at the crowds. “I’m reading a good book now,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"I watched the speech backstage on the teleprompter. Obama paused for a moment, and I saw the text freeze. “I’m going off script here for a second,"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"He said we had to find a way to reach Muslims who “didn’t think it was such a great thing to have a McDonald’s down the street and American pop culture on their television."-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
"And then Obama said what he believed: that people should be equal under the law; that citizens should be free to criticize their government and protest peacefully; that voters should have the freedom…"-Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
13. From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
3.82
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House… read more
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- history
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson
By: Sally H. Jacobs
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-w… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir (A Bestselling Biography)
By: Pat Cunnane
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The West Wing meets The Office in this fresh and funny exclusive look into President Barack Obama’s… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. I Didn't Know I Needed This The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Y
By: Eli Rallo
3.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on moder… read more
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17. Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Obama's former communications director and current co-host of Pod Save America comes a colorfu… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"First and most important, our culture was a reflection of the man we served. Obama is at his core a really chill guy and I mean that in the most presidential way. He is a nice guy who expects his tea…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"During the campaign, I supported and encouraged the Clinton campaign strategy, but in hindsight, I lost track of one of the core lessons of Obama's success--campaigns are about telling the American p…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
"Covering politics like sports has created a self-reinforcing incentive structure that is not dissimilar to the one the ESPN’S SportsCenter has on the fundamentals of basketball. There is a long-runni…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
18. Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
By: Jo Piazza
3.68
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
From Jo Piazza, the bestselling author of The Knock Off, How to Be Married, and Fitness Junkie, com… read more
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- contemporary
"Oh… and we’re out of toilet paper."-Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
"It wasn't the first time Charlotte recognized the lack of control she had over how her senior staff managed this campaign. Josh was often her brain, and her staff was her nervous system. Many days sh…"-Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
"What the piece didn't capture was the fact that she still did the majority of the housework and a good deal of the parenting every single minute she wasn't at work. Max was forgiven for dropping the …"-Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
19. Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
By: Dan Pfeiffer
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America,… read more
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- history
- memoir
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"Fighting and losing is sometimes politically preferable to surrendering in silence."-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"Politics is not that complicated, and it's in the economic interest of the pundits and consultants to make you believe you need a guru on an expensive retainer to understand it."-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"The goal of gerrymandering to this degree is not just to make your vote count less; it’s to make you know your vote doesn’t count in the hope that you won’t vote again. Because why put in the effort …"-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
"Getting more people to vote more often is the most simple cure for the complex set of problems that plague America. A significant majority of Americans agree more with Democrats than Republicans, but…"-Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
20. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
By: Sami Sage
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more
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- politics
- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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