The Transcendentalists and Their World
By: Robert A. Gross
3.94
Format: 836 pages, Hardcover
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1. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
By: Stephen Puleo
4.01
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
This edition is no longer in print. Please check 9780807078006 for the most recent edition. Aro… read more
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- american
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2. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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- american
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- history
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3. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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4. Two Treatises of Government
By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more
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5. The Greenlanders
By: Jane Smiley
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley's The Greenlandersis an enthralling novel … read more
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6. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
8. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
By: Dennis Duncan
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more
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- history
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
9. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
By: Kelefa Sanneh
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more
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- history
10. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- history
- biography
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11. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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- american
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13. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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14. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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- biography
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"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
15. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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16. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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- history
17. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
By: Barbara Weisberg
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more
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18. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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19. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
By: Paulina Bren
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
20. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- history
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
21. Signal to Noise
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legend… read more
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"In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"When you looked at Meche the first impression was that she was going to punch you in the face; she was made of such strong angles. However, if you looked long enough there was a delicate softness ben…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
"He sat back, his head against the door of the building. Meche, in turn, rested her head against his shoulder. For others, it might have been an intimate gesture. Maybe it was, but not in the way most…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise
22. Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
By: Kim Todd
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A vivid social history that brings to light the “girl stunt reporters” of the Gilded Age who went u… read more
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- history
- biography
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"I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)"-Kim Todd, Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
23. Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
By: Kim Wickens
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, … read more
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- nonfiction
24. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
25. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
By: Bill McKibben
4.19
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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26. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
By: Natalie Dykstra
4.05
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more
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27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- american
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28. The Transcendentalists and Their World
By: Robert A. Gross
3.94
Format: 836 pages, Hardcover
The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on … read more
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- american
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- americana
- literature
- 19th century
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- criticism
29. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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30. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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- american
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- nonfiction
31. Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed
By: Stuart Isacoff
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining momen… read more
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