Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
By: José Moreno Hernández
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away. Born into a family of migrant workers, …
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1. The Teeth of the Tiger (Jack Ryan Jr, #1; Jack Ryan Universe, #12)
By: Tom Clancy
3.74
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, to propose joining his network of agents and sympathizers in Eur… read more
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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade
3.85
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity
By: Nabeel Qureshi
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Having shared his journey of faith in the New York Timesbestselling Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, N… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead … read more
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6. East of West, Vol. 5: All These Secrets
By: Jonathan Hickman , Nick Dragotta , Frank Martin , Rus Wooton
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
It's the fifth volume of the Eisner-nominated, best-selling East Of West. All These Secretsis the t… read more
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7. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
By: Scott S. Greenberger
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
9. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
By: Jeffrey Kluger , Jim Lovell , Fred Sanders
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
April 1970. The glory days of the Apollo space program. NASA send Commander Jim Lovell and two othe… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- space
- science
10. Greetings from Witness Protection!
By: Jake Burt
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family … read more
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11. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
By: Bill Watterson
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, … read more
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12. Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
By: Brian Kilmeade
4.22
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
13. Unplugged
By: Gordon Korman
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
From Gordon Korman comes a middle grade novel about a group of kids forced to “unplug” at a wellne… read more
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"Fertilizer, meet fan"-Gordon Korman, Unplugged
14. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
15. Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII
By: Damien Lewis
4.41
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Br… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
16. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
By: Abbi Waxman
3.59
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antis… read more
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17. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
18. A Smoking Bun (A Bakeshop Mystery, #18)
By: Ellie Alexander
4.05
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Another delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series set in Ashland, OR!The mountains are calling i… read more
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19. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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20. Diva
By: Daisy Goodwin
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more
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21. Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
By: Scott Galloway
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the g… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Adrift: America in 100 Charts
By: Scott Galloway
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more
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23. The British Booksellers
By: Kristy Cambron
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the c… read more
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"Perhaps days like this are exactly why we have books in the world. To remember that not all is lost, even if we find ourselves in the unknown. I like to think we provide a haven for the wanderer. And…"-Kristy Cambron, The British Booksellers
24. We Are Not From Here
By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more
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"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
25. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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- biography
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26. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
By: Katie Ledecky
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more
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27. Chilled to the Cone (A Bakeshop Mystery, #12)
By: Ellie Alexander
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pastry chef and amateur sleuth Juliet Capshaw finds herself on thin ice as she attempts to solve he… read more
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28. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
29. Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
By: Katherine G. Johnson
4.34
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.As a young g… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- space
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30. Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
By: José Moreno Hernández
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away. Born into a family of migrant workers, … read more
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- nonfiction
- space
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31. From Farmworker to Astronaut / De Campesino a Astronauta: My Path to the Stars / Mi viaje a las estrellas (English and Spanish Edition)
By: José M. Hernández
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Ten-year-old Jose M. Hernandez watched the Apollo 17 moonwalks on his family s black and white tele… read more
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- memoir
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