They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
By: Macon Fry
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
They Called Us River The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of …
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1. Ford County
By: John Grisham
3.71
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, th… read more
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- audiobook
"It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting."-John Grisham, Ford County
"But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being confronted by one of his victims. How many others were out there? …"-John Grisham, Ford County
2. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
By: Nick Offerman
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Parks and Recreationactor Nick Offerman shares his humorous musings on life, manliness, meat, and m… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
By: Lawrence N. Powell
3.77
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
By: Gary Krist
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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8. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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9. Dark Harvest
By: Norman Partridge
4.02
Format: 982 pages,
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more
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10. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
By: Parker J. Palmer
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more
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11. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
By: Bernie Taupin
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Seamstress of New Orleans
By: Diane C. McPhail
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe at the turn-of-the-century, the a… read more
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"Now, do you want a poppy?"-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans
"Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history."-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans
"She picked up the wide sleeve and studied the beading: imitation pearls and small rhinestones interspersed with a few of glistening colors: watery blue and aqua, palest rose and coral."-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans
"Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mir…"-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans
13. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
14. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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- audiobook
15. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. I Will Ruin You
By: Linwood Barclay
3.98
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher’s act of hero… read more
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17. Agency (Jackpot #2)
By: William Gibson
3.81
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more
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"I dislike calling them stubs,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"You’re too young to remember it,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
18. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
21. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Squeeze Me (Skink #8)
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.03
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era … read more
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23. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
24. The Boatman's Daughter
By: Andy Davidson
3.50
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Ever since her father was killed when she was just a child, Miranda Crabtree has kept her head down… read more
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25. You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career
By: Ashley Stahl
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
If you're thinking about buying this book, it's probably because it feels like something's missing … read more
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- audiobook
26. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
By: Tony Horwitz
3.98
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the A… read more
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"Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. "Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done," he said, "She doesn't need you anymore."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"The only person of color in any of the photographs was a black waiter. Blacks were otherwise barred from the dance hall, as were locals of Mexican descent. In the Texas of that day, laws and customs …"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat'…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the "self-styled 'Napoleon of the West,"" led to the annexation of Texas, war wi…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
28. They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
By: Macon Fry
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
They Called Us River The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of … read more
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29. The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It
By: Mark Bowden
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies foug… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
By: Rich Cohen
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Was he New York City's last pirate...or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthir… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Italian Prisoner
By: Elisa M. Speranza
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family gr… read more
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