The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
By: Nicholas Griffin
4.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The harrowing story of the rise and fall of one of America's most popular destination cities--rife …
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1. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
By: Dennis Covington
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A journalist describes an assignment in the mountains of Alabama which led to his spiritual journey… read more
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"Mystery, I’d read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend."-Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
"I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest , and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike."-Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
"There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no m…"-Dennis Covington, Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
2. The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
By: Brendan I. Koerner
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings… read more
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3. Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
By: Charlie LeDuff
3.99
Format: 320 pages,
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4. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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5. Nowy Jork. Od Mannahatty do Ground Zero
By: Magdalena Rittenhouse
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Czy holenderscy osadnicy naprawde kupili Manhattan od Indian za garsc paciorkow? Czemu budowa Brook… read more
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6. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
By: Sam Quinones
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more
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7. Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
By: Roben Farzad
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocai… read more
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8. The Serpent and the Rainbow
By: Wade Davis
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Hai… read more
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9. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
By: Les Standiford
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Last Train to Paradiseis acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account o… read more
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10. Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
By: John Bloom , Jim Atkinson
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that… read more
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11. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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12. Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy
By: Paul Vidich
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA … read more
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13. The Night Always Comes
By: Willy Vlautin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more
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14. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The… read more
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"One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow fi…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn’t understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerati…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"As a fraction of GDP, the United States spends on job-training and assistance programs barely one-fifth as much as the average among industrialized countries. Moreover, the United States has signific…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
15. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
By: Richard Grant
4.03
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the… read more
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16. Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A deeply-reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist into the present and future effects … read more
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17. Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
By: Charlie LeDuff
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to… read more
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"As for Congress, one imaginative polling firm found that brussels sprouts, head lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies, and gonorrhea were more popular than our elected representatives. Apparently, the Ame…"-Charlie LeDuff, Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great
18. An American Summer
By: Alex Kotlowitz
4.33
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait… read more
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"There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us."-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
". . .you can't talk about death without celebrating life. How amid the devastation, many still manage to stay erect in a world that's slumping around them. How despite the bloodshed, some manage, her…"-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
"The shooting doesn't end. Nor does the grinding poverty. Or the deeply rooted segregation. Or the easy availability of guns. Or the shuttered schools and boarded-up homes. Or the tensions between pol…"-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
19. The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
By: Nicholas Griffin
4.21
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The harrowing story of the rise and fall of one of America's most popular destination cities--rife … read more
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20. San Francisco. Dziki brzeg wolności
By: Magda Działoszyńska-Kossow
3.87
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Zbudowane w połowie XIX wieku dzięki gorączce złota, San Francisco od początku przyciągało ludzi po… read more
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21. The Dom. Nowojorska bohema na polskim Lower East Side
By: Jan Błaszczak
3.45
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
"Mecenas", "filantrop", "magnetyczna osobowość", "ludzie po prostu do niego lgnęli". O Stanleyu Tol… read more
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