The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
By: Bob Woodward , None
3.70
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, … read more
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2. Janesville: An American Story
By: None , Amy Goldstein
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ … read more
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3. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
By: Robert Kegan , Matthew Miller , Lisa Laskow Lahey , None , None , Matthew L Miller
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
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4. A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred
By: George F. Will
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
"George Will on baseball. Perfect."--Los Angeles Times In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, le… read more
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5. The Women In Black
By: Madeleine St. John
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sydney in the late 1950s. On the second floor of the famous F.G. Goode department store, in Ladies'… read more
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6. Missing May
By: Cynthia Rylant
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Sc… read more
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7. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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8. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
9. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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10. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
By: Thomas Fisher
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more
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11. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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12. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
By: Lawrence Wright
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of… read more
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13. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
By: Robert Bilott
4.50
Format: 400 pages, ebook
“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist.” —The New York Times Book Review … read more
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14. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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15. Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People
By: William Cooke
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the commu… read more
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- medical
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16. Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
By: John Abramson
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical kno… read more
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17. Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
By: Uwe E. Reinhardt
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health car… read more
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18. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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19. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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20. The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors
By: Emily Smith
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to love your neighbor in today's fraught, divided world? Join Dr. Emily Smith, gl… read more
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21. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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