Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
By: James M. Fallows
3.61
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The mark of a successful city is having a river walk, whether or not there is a river."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
"The mark of a successful city is having a river walk, whether or not there is a river."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
"Inside public libraries you see the people, programs, problems, and answers that offer a genuine look into the heart and soul of a town."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
"Inside public libraries you see the people, programs, problems, and answers that offer a genuine look into the heart and soul of a town."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
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1. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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- audiobook
"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
2. The Sand Child
By: Tahar Ben Jelloun , Alan Sheridan
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and ra… read more
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3. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
By: Jeff Hobbs
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
What does the untimely death of one man mean? Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto know… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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- politics
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6. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her
By: Brion T. McClanahan
3.62
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently sc… read more
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7. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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- politics
- american
- history
- nonfiction
8. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good… read more
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- history
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- economics
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- audiobook
9. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
By: Peter Stark
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast … read more
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10. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
By: Evan Osnos
4.24
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more
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- journalism
- audiobook
"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
11. 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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- history
- audiobook
"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
12. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
By: Ariana Neumann
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czecho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"If you want to be truly just in this life, when you see people who are weak, you must stand with them. Because you are strong, and it is the weak who need you more, not the strong."-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in …"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"Perhaps all remembrance is a process of compilation and creation. Every day we absorb what is around us and assemble observations of a specific time: sounds, smells, textures, words, images, and feel…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
"…it was during a period he had so much time on his hands that he felt that time had stopped. How could time have stopped? ‘Because,’ he said, ‘and you will understand this when you are older, sometim…"-Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
13. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more
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- economics
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- audiobook
"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
14. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
By: Timothy Egan
4.12
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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16. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
17. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
By: James M. Fallows
3.61
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by… read more
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- nonfiction
- journalism
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"The mark of a successful city is having a river walk, whether or not there is a river."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
"Inside public libraries you see the people, programs, problems, and answers that offer a genuine look into the heart and soul of a town."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
18. Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
By: Craig Fehrman
4.04
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s president… read more
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19. Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
By: Anthony Harkins
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its aut… read more
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"In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyo…"-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
20. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
By: Neil Gorsuch
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more
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21. Letters From Montreal: Tales of an Exceptional City
By: Madi Haslam
4.16
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Letters From Montreal documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrai… read more
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