Meltdown: Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
By: Joel Levy
4.10
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents…
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1. Every Man Dies Alone
By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes
4.26
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more
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"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
2. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire
By: Sam Heys
3.95
Format: 288 pages,
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
By: Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- science
5. Destiny Betrayed: J.F.K., Cuba, and the Garrison Case
By: James DiEugenio
4.37
Format: 224 pages,
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- history
- nonfiction
6. Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
By: None
4.30
Format: 237 pages,
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7. Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
By: Barney Hoskyns
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This book is a remarkable look at one of the most dramatic, creative, and revolutionary settings in… read more
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8. The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
By: Christine Negroni
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
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9. Chocky
By: John Wyndham
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more
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10. Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
By: James Mahaffey
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
A "delightfully astute" and "entertaining" history of the mishaps and meltdowns that have marked th… read more
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11. Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
By: Jim Marrs , Edward T. Haslam
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expose of … read more
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12. Eye For An Eye
By: M.J. Arlidge
4.09
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
RIGHT OR WRONG? Only nine criminals in the UK have been granted lifelong anonymity. Their crimes … read more
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13. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Sleeping Beauties
By: Suzanne O'Sullivan
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Suzanne O'Sullivan's THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES, an exploration of different aspects of psychosomatic di… read more
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"A person looking for help must keep in mind what help there is."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"The mind is a function of the brain and is created from biology."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"If you can't say what is happening in the brain, nobody will care."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
"... alternating between anticipation and despondency. That has physical consequences."-Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties
15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
16. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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17. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- science
18. Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb (Casemate Illustrated)
By: Jim Winchester
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
This “unnerving exposé” of a lost American nuclear bomb “is a valuable contribution to the history … read more
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19. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
20. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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21. The Cyclist (DS Cross #2)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.24
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
To solve any murder, you must first know your victim . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has … read more
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22. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
23. Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster
By: Jon Ziomek
4.19
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, w… read more
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24. The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
By: Steve Olson
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph—and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us.… read more
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25. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
By: Tim Shipman
4.03
Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition
The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more
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26. The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation
By: Christopher Zyda
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christopher Zyda confronts the long-buried and painful memories of his harrowing fifteen-year journ… read more
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27. Meltdown: Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
By: Joel Levy
4.10
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents… read more
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28. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
By: Luis Elizondo
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more
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29. Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
By: James L. Nolan Jr.
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part… read more
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30. Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
By: Susan C. Ball
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and … read more
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