The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
By: Doug Mack
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America." ―Mar…
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1. Stars Over Clear Lake
By: Loretta Ellsworth
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept aw… read more
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2. The Cellist of Sarajevo
By: Steven Galloway
4.00
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the st… read more
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"A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"The choices she's made have left her without choice."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
"You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you."-Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
3. The Persian Pickle Club
By: Sandra Dallas
4.26
Format: 331 pages,
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and t… read more
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4. The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
By: Cate Lineberry
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded … read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
By: Kira Salak
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Relates the tale of the author's journey of more than six hundred dangerous miles on the Niger Rive… read more
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6. Cure for the Common Breakup (Black Dog Bay, #1)
By: Beth Kendrick
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welcome to Black Dog Bay, a tiny seaside town in Delaware known as "the best place in America to bo… read more
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7. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
By: Anthony Everitt
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined." --John Adam… read more
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8. The Boy on the Wooden Box
By: Leon Leyson
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Even in the darkest of times--especiallyin the darkest of times--there is room for strength and bra… read more
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9. 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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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
11. The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more
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12. How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
By: Michael Greger
4.29
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestsel… read more
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13. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- adult
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14. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- politics
- history
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- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
15. The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
By: Helen Thorpe
4.26
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving… read more
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- history
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"If there was any part of the global crisis that the United States owned, it was the chaos that was unfolding in the Middle East. The United States had not played a direct role in the ethnic cleansing…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside the building…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside this buildin…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
16. The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever
By: Jamie Wright
4.07
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Wildly popular blogger "Jamie the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilario… read more
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17. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me
By: Rex Chapman
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more
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18. Jimmy Bluefeather
By: Kim Heacox
4.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constan… read more
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"Keb would never forget how Gracie turned to the wall and trembled, how he felt nailed to the chair, thinking: we build a perfect picture of what we want our children to be. And when that picture fall…"-Kim Heacox, Jimmy Bluefeather
19. A Drop in the Ocean
By: Jenni Ogden
4.14
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an … read more
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20. The Secret History of Bigfoot
By: John O’Connor
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch
By: Charlie Berens
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and jou… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America. When a naked, mentally ill white m… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
23. The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
By: Doug Mack
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America." ―Mar… read more
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- history
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- united states
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- adult
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24. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
25. Steve Kerr: A Life
By: Scott Howard-Cooper
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Thrilling." — Publishers Weekly (starred) | "Riveting." — Library Journal (starred) | "A fascinati… read more
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26. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
By: Stephen Kurczy
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiF… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The electro-sensitives were right: We do need a break from our devices. The hippies were right: We need to reconnect with the land. The astronomers were right: We do need to be silent to listen."-Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
28. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
By: José Andrés
3.87
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed … read more
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"There is no recovery to manage, and no citizens to govern, if we cannot get water and food to the people."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"Too often charity is about the redemption of the giver, not the liberation of the receiver. (Said to José Andrés by Robert Eggers)"-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"As I looked up to the stars, I began to cry. I thought the one star that was missing was the Puerto Rican star on the American flag."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"We needed leadership to feed the people of Puerto Rico, but we had a leader who was more interested in patting himself on the back than the difficult work of disaster recovery."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
29. Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
By: Nora Shalaway Carpenter
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year Country Living Magazine's Front Porch Book Club Book of the Month A … read more
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"We've all read articles and seen comments online that claim poor people are poor because they're terrible at saving and planning. I don't believe that. No one wants to live in poverty, and saving is …"-Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
"We've all read articles and seen comments online that claim poor people are poor because they're terrible at saving and planning. I don't believe that. No one wants to live in poverty, and saving is …"-Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
30. Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street
By: Rick Antonson
3.74
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a t… read more
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31. 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
By: David Dean Barrett
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding … read more
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