The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
By: Michael Kranish
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit , a fascinating portrait of a groundbreakin…
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1. Celine
By: Peter Heller , Kimberley Farr
3.78
Format: 12 pages, Audio CD
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspe… read more
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- audiobook
"I’m not sure of anything,"-Peter Heller, Celine
"When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back."-Peter Heller, Celine
"There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love."-Peter Heller, Celine
"Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it."-Peter Heller, Celine
2. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
By: James Gleick
4.03
Format: 527 pages, Hardcover
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonis… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"At the end of 2006, people concerned with the “Cat"-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity…."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
"Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace."-James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
3. Annapurna: A Woman's Place
By: Maurice Herzog , Arlene Blum
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the fir… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
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- audiobook
4. Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey
By: David Lagercrantz , Göran Kropp
3.87
Format: 237 pages,
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Murder by the Book (Nero Wolfe, #19)
By: David Handler , Rex Stout
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
When everyone who has read Leonard Dykes's unpublished manuscript--including the author himself--is… read more
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- audiobook
6. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Higher Love: Skiing the Seven Summits
By: Conrad Anker , Kit DesLauriers
3.82
Format: None pages,
Kit DesLauriers made history by being the first person to ski from the summit of each continent's h… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
8. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
By: Daniel Coyle , Tyler Hamilton
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Secret Racei… read more
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10. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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11. Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
By: Aili McConnon , Andres McConnon
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Road to Valor is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the gr… read more
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12. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
By: Candice Millard
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author of Destiny of the Republicand The River of Doubt, a thrilling… read more
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13. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France
By: Richard Moore
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more
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14. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)
By: Anne Hillerman
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more
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15. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
16. The Great Transition
By: Nick Fuller Googins
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more
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- audiobook
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition
"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition
17. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
18. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
By: Robert Kurson
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first jo… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1
By: Beth Brower
4.31
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count thi… read more
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21. Midnight
By: Amy McCulloch
3.37
Format: None pages, ebook
When she's gifted a once-in-a-lifetime Antarctic cruise, Olivia has never been anywhere so spectacu… read more
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22. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
By: Elena Kostyuchenko
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
25. The Deep Sky
By: Yume Kitasei
3.71
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more
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"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky
26. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
27. The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor
By: Keegan-Michael Key
3.90
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
"A boisterous debut … the authors are as funny as one would expect … this is a hoot.” ― Publishers … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Fake Accounts
By: Lauren Oyler
2.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy … read more
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"I resented my mother and online feminism for making me paranoid."-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts
"People often say my generation values authenticity. Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation. If we value authenticity it’s because we’ve been bombarded since our impressionable pr…"-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts
"For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became,…"-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts
"Consensus was the world was ending, or would begin to end soon, if not by exponential environmental catastrophe then by some combination of nuclear war, the American two-party system, patriarchy, whi…"-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts
29. Three Girls from Bronzeville
By: Dawn Turner
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and h… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
30. The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
By: Michael Kranish
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit , a fascinating portrait of a groundbreakin… read more
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- african american
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31. The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France
By: Daniel de Visé
4.36
Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition
“Greg LeMond was Lance Armstrong before Lance Armstrong . . . the story of a true hero . . . This i… read more
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