Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
By: David Giffels
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
**Finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Award** An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohi…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
By: Eric Jager
3.97
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France as a resolute knight defe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence
By: Robert J. Samuelson
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
It’s a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award-winning columnist Robert J. Samu… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Son (The Giver, #4)
By: Lois Lowry
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a s… read more
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5. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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6. 24 Hours at Agincourt
By: Michael Jones
3.91
Format: 20 pages, Hardcover
A definitive account of the iconic battle, uniquely structured over 24 hours of a single shocking d… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Queen of the Big Time
By: Adriana Trigiani
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known and loved around the world for her sweeping Big Stone Gap trilogy and the instant New York Ti… read more
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8. Letter to My Daughter
By: Maya Angelou
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wi… read more
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9. Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
By: Vaclav Smil
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In "Made in the USA," Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of pre… read more
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10. Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
By: Eric Jager
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant m… read more
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11. The Year We Turned Forty
By: Liz Fenton , Lisa Steinke
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hil… read more
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12. Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
By: Julia Cooke
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted … read more
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- travel
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
13. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
14. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
By: James Renner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
By: Elizabeth Passarella
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
16. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
17. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
18. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
19. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
20. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
By: Dolly Parton
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I wake up with new dreams everyday."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
21. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
22. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
By: Maggie Bullock
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
23. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
By: Fiona Hill
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
24. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
By: Michele Filgate
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
25. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
By: Eliese Colette Goldbach
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she un… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
26. Becoming Italian: through Family, Food, and Life in the South
By: Bret Thoman
4.72
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Travel deep into Italy with Bret Thoman as he narrates his lifelong journey from America’s Southlan… read more
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- travel
27. Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America
By: David Giffels
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
**Finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Award** An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- politics
- nonfiction
28. Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass
By: Dale Maharidge
4.47
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Looks at America's homeless and poor and tells the stories of farm workers, illegal aliens, and the… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
29. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (Heritage)
By: Steven High
3.36
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging in… read more
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- history
30. Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America (American Business, Politics, and Society)
By: Tracy Neumann
3.63
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth c… read more
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31. Wicked Akron: Tales of Rumrunners, Mobsters and Other Rubber City Rogues
By: Kymberli Hagelberg
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Wicked Akron, Ohio takes the reader on a journey through the seedy underbelly of the city's history… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
