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…
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1. Late to the Ball: Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis. Win.
By: Gerald Marzorati
3.95
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a na… read more
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2. Food: A Love Story
By: Jim Gaffigan
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more
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"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
3. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
By: Lena Andrews
4.00
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more
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4. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- audiobook
5. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
By: Jared Cohen
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more
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6. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
By: Kevin Baker
4.39
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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8. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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- sports
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
9. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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- audiobook
10. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
11. Here in the Dark
By: Alexis Soloski
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a danger… read more
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12. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
13. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- audiobook
14. Karma: My Autobiography
By: Boy George
3.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more
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- audiobook
15. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret
By: J. Randy Taraborrelli
4.17
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more
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16. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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17. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
18. Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes
By: Christine Yu
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“ Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and dis… read more
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- audiobook
19. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
By: Carrie Courogen
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more
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- audiobook
20. The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1)
By: Bruce Borgos
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling… read more
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21. One Blood
By: Denene Millner
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets … read more
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22. 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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23. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
By: Sally Bedell Smith
4.28
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy… read more
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24. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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25. The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
By: Andy Crouch
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and… read more
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- audiobook
"In our deepest hearts we know that being charmed is unreal. All our lives, what we really have been looking for is blessing. We once lay on a mother’s breast, looking for a face. We were not looking …"-Andy Crouch, The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
26. 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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- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
27. Off the Air
By: Christina Estes
3.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introdu… read more
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"His eyes conduct a polygraph of my face."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"My serial killer radar starts screaming."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"Might I interest you in murder and a meal?"-Christina Estes, Off the Air
"Attention is the drug of choice in local news."-Christina Estes, Off the Air
28. Women of the Post
By: Joshunda Sanders
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps w… read more
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"Support units are the spine of the war effort. Because we do a job that is invisible and does not take place on the battlefield does not mean what we do isn't difficult or dangerous."-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"It is the fight of his life - of our lives - to defend our country and maybe it will show white people that we can also belong to and defend this place. We built it too, after all. It is as much our …"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"We all found ways to mirror her contributions to America, even when our country never gave us back all that we gave it. It's a shame that it takes going to other places to help us see how to transfor…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
"The most important thing is those letters... They keep soldiers connected to the most significant people in their lives. Their families, their children, their wives and mothers. That keeps them motiv…"-Joshunda Sanders, Women of the Post
29. Off the Record
By: Peter Mansbridge
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more
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30. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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- feminism
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- history
31. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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