The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
By: Dawn Raffel
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as …
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1. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
By: David M. Oshinsky
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospit… read more
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- science
- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
By: Brian Murphy , None
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight t… read more
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- history
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3. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
By: Lewis Thomas
4.50
Format: 290 pages,
The medusa is a tiny jellfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of N… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
By: John U. Bacon
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, a gripping narrative-nonfiction account of th… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
By: David Dosa
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey.They thought he was just a cat. When Osca… read more
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6. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
By: Andrea Wulf
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardenersnow gives us an enlightening chronicle of the … read more
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- audiobook
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7. The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
By: Laurie Gwen Shapiro
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away o… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
8. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
By: Lewis Thomas
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anticipates the kind of writing that will appear more frequently as scientists take on poetic langu… read more
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9. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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10. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
By: Leslie T. Chang
3.77
Format: None pages,
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11. Under the Streets of Nice
By: Ken Follett , Rene L. Maurice
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1976, Albert Spaggiari stole a fortune in jewels from an "impregnable" bank vault. The jewels an… read more
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12. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
13. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season
By: Rich Cohen
3.90
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more
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14. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
By: Jackie Wang
3.83
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more
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- nonfiction
15. I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived, #17)
By: Lauren Tarshis
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the historic grizzly bear attacks in Glaci… read more
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16. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
18. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- american history
- biography
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19. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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- science
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20. Las Madres
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family,… read more
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21. Fruiting Bodies
By: Ashley Robin Franklin
3.41
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A new spine-chilling horror comic from cartoonist Ashley Robin Franklin, author of One Million Tiny… read more
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22. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
By: Elizabeth White
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more
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"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
23. The Light of Luna Park
By: Addison Armstrong
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who ch… read more
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24. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- audiobook
25. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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- medicine
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- audiobook
26. The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
By: Dawn Raffel
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as … read more
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27. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
By: Wayétu Moore
4.24
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more
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"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
28. Stay on the Line
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
4.25
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
After a small coastal town is devastated by a hurricane, the survivors gravitate toward a long out-… read more
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29. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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30. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
By: Andrea Freeman
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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31. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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