Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
By: Eliza Griswold
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how frackin…
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By: Suzy Hansen
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered America In the wake of the Septem… read more
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2. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
By: Jill Leovy
3.50
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minute… read more
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3. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
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By: None
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
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5. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
By: Dan Fagin
3.00
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6. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
7. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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8. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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"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
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By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
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By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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12. American Girls
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4.01
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4.06
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4.43
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4.50
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4.49
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17. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
By: Eliza Griswold
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
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4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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20. Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia
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3.60
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21. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
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4.40
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