The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
By: Jason Vuic
4.21
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home ther…
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1. Kinsey and Me
By: Sue Grafton
3.55
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins--and Grafton's past. The nine stories that ope… read more
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"my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair."-Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me
2. The Everglades: River of Grass
By: Marjory Stoneman Douglas , Robert Fink
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people con… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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4. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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5. The Best Revenge (Alan Gregory, #11)
By: Stephen White , Dick Hill
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a young woman 13 years ago, T… read more
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6. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
By: Tom Coyne
4.31
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
An epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world?s greatest round of golf I… read more
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8. One Last Thing Before I Go
By: Jonathan Tropper
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"Mistakes have been made." Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn't going to turn out as he … read more
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9. Sam Walton: Made In America
By: Sam Walton , John Huey
3.82
Format: 295 pages,
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, w… read more
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10. A Land Remembered
By: Patrick D. Smith
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Land Rememberedhas been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Flor… read more
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11. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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12. I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny
By: Bob Newhart
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book ever from an icon of American comedy--a hilarious combination of stories from his ca… read more
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13. The Whites
By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more
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14. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
By: John Temple
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the Edgar(r) Award in Best Fact Crime. Nominee for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of t… read more
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15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- audiobook
16. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
By: David Sedaris
4.21
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice: T here’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s… read more
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"Sometimes things happen and I don’t know what to do with my face."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"Question: What’s the difference between a whore and a bitch? Answer: A whore will sleep with anybody. A bitch will sleep with anybody… but you."-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
"While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. "Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?"-David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
18. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- urban planning
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- urbanism
- audiobook
19. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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- history
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20. A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
By: Raul Palma
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the w… read more
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21. MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
By: Steven Rinella
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Listening time = 6 hours and 3 minutes From the creators of the New York Times bestselling serie… read more
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- history
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22. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain
By: Charles Leerhsen
3.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more
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23. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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- history
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24. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told t… read more
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"It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded."-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing the other capitalists] with no one around him, crying because no one's aroun…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing everyone else] with no one around him, crying because no one's around to mak…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
"Government isn't ruining capitalism. Capitalism is ruining government. I think that's kind of obvious. If you take capitalism out of government you get simple public representation. If you take gover…"-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
25. We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity
By: Phillip C. McGraw
4.33
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We’ve Got How You … read more
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26. Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)
By: Marta Molnar
4.35
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a … read more
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27. Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
By: Christopher Knowlton
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at… read more
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28. MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls
By: Steven Rinella
4.50
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Ten harrowing firsthand tales of survival from the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio… read more
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29. The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
By: Jason Vuic
4.21
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home ther… read more
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30. Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
By: Ken Bensinger
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest international corruption case of r… read more
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31. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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