Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People
By: William Cooke
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the commu…
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1. End of the Spear
By: None
2.83
Format: 212 pages,
When I was a boy, I cried. But now I see it well. Steve Saint was only five years old when his fath… read more
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2. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
By: None
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is… read more
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3. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
5. Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
By: Tom Doyle
4.70
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For the first time ever Tom Doyle, popular author and pastor to the unreached, is joined by his wif… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
7. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
8. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
By: Mandy Matney
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
9. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
By: Sarah Smarsh
3.76
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
11. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more
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- audiobook
"Visit the past, but don't stay there."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
12. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
13. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
14. The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
By: Steven Conn
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A "piercing, unsentimental" ( New Yorker ) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural Ameri… read more
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15. No Ordinary Assignment
By: Jane Ferguson
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
16. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
By: Therese Oneill
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more
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- memoir
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"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
17. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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18. Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People
By: William Cooke
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the commu… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
By: Elizabeth Catte
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more
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- audiobook
20. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By: Maud Newton
3.34
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–an… read more
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- memoir
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21. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
By: Tanya Frank
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more
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22. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The… read more
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"One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow fi…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn’t understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerati…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"As a fraction of GDP, the United States spends on job-training and assistance programs barely one-fifth as much as the average among industrialized countries. Moreover, the United States has signific…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
23. When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
By: Martha Teichner
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!* A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right pl… read more
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"And I need at least one dog walking along beside me, even better, two, as I push my grocery cart east, across town, and then back. Without a dog or two beside me, I feel incomplete. I catch myself ta…"-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
"Bull terriers are odd dogs. With their egg-shaped heads, slitty eyes, and pointy ears, they’re funny looking. Think Spuds MacKenzie or the Target dog. BTs are opinionated, exuberant, stubborn, extrem…"-Martha Teichner, When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
24. Breathing Underwater
By: Sarah Allen
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Breathing Underwater is a middle grade novel exploration of sisterhood, dreams, and what it means t… read more
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25. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
By: Cornelia Griggs
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother… read more
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27. Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
3.23
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie … read more
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28. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
By: John A. List
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading economist answers one of today’s trickiest questions: Why do some great ideas make it big… read more
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"We are reluctant to quit things because we want to avoid the resulting heartbreak. The pain of failure is magnified by the sunk costs: all the time and effort and emotion you have already invested."-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
"Scaling a solution that saves or improves the lives of eight-year-olds instead of eighty-year-olds has a bigger cumulative impact over time and thus arguably calls for a larger slice of the budget."-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
"When resources are limited, if you’re not getting the most out of every last dollar spent, the opportunity cost includes the additional impact your dollars could have had if allocated more effectively"-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
29. Paul, Apostle of Christ: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture
By: Angela Elwell Hunt
4.55
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Paul, Apostle of Christ is the story of two men. Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life ev… read more
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30. American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
3.88
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Pla… read more
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31. Muncie Murder & Mayhem
By: Douglas Walker
4.14
Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition
The authors of Wicked Muncie tell the city’s lurid history in the true stories of its most infamous… read more
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