Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
By: John H. Halpern
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. Filthy Rich: The true story behind the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal
By: John Connolly , James Patterson , Tim Malloy
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
2. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walkand coauthor of The Grand Design(wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Lady Sings the Blues
By: Billie Holiday , William Dufty
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more
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5. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
By: John Ehle
3.79
Format: 477 pages,
One of the many ironies of U.S. government policy toward Indians in the early 1800s is that it pers… read more
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6. Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
By: Martin Hammond , John Atkinson , Arrian
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's 'Campaigns of Alexander'… read more
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7. Heart of the Fae
By: Emma Hamm
4.90
Format: None pages,
COMING DECEMBER 2017 Once upon a time... A plague sweeps across the emerald hills of Ui Neill, leav… read more
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8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
10. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Jessica McDiarmid
4.30
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
12. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
13. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- world history
- nonfiction
- science
15. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
16. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. In a Flight of Starlings
By: Giorgio Parisi
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings
18. The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale
By: Virginia Kantra
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A woman learns to follow her own road in this heartwarming novel inspired by The Wizard of Oz by Ne… read more
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- audiobook
19. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
20. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
By: Kliph Nesteroff
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- microhistory
- audiobook
22. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
23. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- science
- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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25. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
26. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Hager
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly… read more
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- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
27. Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
By: John H. Halpern
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug us… read more
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- science
- history
- world history
- medical
- plants
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- nature
- audiobook
28. Losing Earth: A Recent History
By: Nathaniel Rich
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
29. How to Survive a Pandemic
By: Michael Greger
4.24
Format: 1000 pages, ebook
A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Time… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
30. Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
By: Patrick Boucheron
3.58
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli a… read more
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- history
31. How to Leave the House
By: Nathan Newman
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more
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