A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
By: Hakeem Oluseyi
4.48
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverishe…
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1. Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
By: Patricia Williams , Jeannine Amber
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black and female? Ask any girl from any hoo… read more
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"Is this for someone special?" asked the saleslady as she folded my purchase in layers of tissue paper. "For my mama," I said proudly. "She dead."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"Mama didn’t trust a doctor, so whenever something was wrong with one of her kids, she liked to do the diagnosing herself by asking a million questions and then taking a wild guess."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is wh…"-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
2. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.28
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggl… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
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"Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
"For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
3. The Sea Around Us
By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more
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4. Contagion (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #2)
By: Robin Cook
4.08
Format: 320 pages,
When not one but three different extremely rare diseases kill several patients at a New York hospit… read more
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5. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- science
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
7. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
8. Ghost Book
By: Remy Lai
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Coco, and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel abou… read more
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9. Rez Ball
By: Byron Graves
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more
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10. The Bellwoods Game
By: Celia Krampien
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus , this “beautifully creepy” ( Kirkus Reviews ), high… read more
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- audiobook
11. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
By: Antonio Padilla
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
13. Brooms
By: Jasmine Walls
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more
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14. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
15. Catching the Light (Why I Write)
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant point… read more
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- biography memoir
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"Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
16. Harry Sylvester Bird
By: Chinelo Okparanta
3.24
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant,… read more
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- audiobook
17. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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18. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
By: Marcia Bjornerud
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us hav… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"This impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by - indeed, made of - time."-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"I emphasize that my job is not to challenge their personal beliefs but to teach the logic of geology (geo-logic?) - the methods and tools of the discipline that enables us not only to comprehend how …"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
"Over human timescales, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us. Soil lost to erosion, coastal areas claimed by the sea, and mountaintops sacrificed on the altar of capitalism won't be rest…"-Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
19. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and … read more
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- audiobook
- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"Everywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, capitalism follows us."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Science is supposedly about asking questions, except about scientists and how science is done."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Access to a dark night sky—to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is—should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
20. The Chaperone
By: M. Hendrix
3.75
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules: Deflect attention. Abstain from… read more
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21. This Book Won't Burn
By: Samira Ahmed
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspens… read more
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"Book banning has long been used to silence those who want to speak out, those who are unwilling to be gaslit into thinking they're living in the best of all possible worlds."-Samira Ahmed, This Book Won't Burn
22. You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
By: Ruta Sepetys
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
23. A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
By: Hakeem Oluseyi
4.48
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverishe… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- physics
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24. The Blood Years
By: Elana K. Arnold
4.32
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more
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25. The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship
By: Nate Klemp
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN 'S "15 BEST MARRIAGE BOOKS ALL COUPLES SHOULD READ." An accessible, tran… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
By: Sarafina El-Badry Nance
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicis… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- science
27. The Reunion
By: Kit Frick
3.39
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culmina… read more
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28. When the World Tips Over
By: Jandy Nelson
4.18
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in h… read more
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"He liked trees more than people."-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over
"Why won’t you ever tell me about your parents?"-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over
"Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound."-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over
"Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost."-Jandy Nelson, When the World Tips Over
29. Dark Testament: Blackout Poems
By: Crystal Simone Smith
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this extraordinary collection, the award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith gives voice to the mo… read more
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30. Rising Class: How Three First-Generation College Students Conquered Their First Year
By: Jennifer Miller
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first… read more
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- biography
31. A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene, 1989-1999
By: Tom Maxwell
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world… read more
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- audiobook
