Hoops Heist: Seattle, the Sonics and How a Stolen Team's Legacy Gave Rise to the NBA's Secret Empire
By: Jon Finkel
3.95
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the untold story of the city of Seattle, their beloved Sonics, and how the legacy of their …
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1. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
By: Charles R. Cross
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still… read more
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"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
"They drove to the parking lot of Garfield High School, where Jimi pointed to the windows on the building and told Carmen what classes were held there. The building had a pull that had him returning w…"-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
2. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)
By: Gene Wolfe
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more
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3. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
By: Jeff Pearlman
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more
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4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
5. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.21
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more
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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
6. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
7. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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8. Several People Are Typing
By: Calvin Kasulke
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more
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"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
9. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.25
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more
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10. My Life in Red and White
By: Arsène Wenger
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more
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11. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
12. Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.09
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seri… read more
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13. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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14. 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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15. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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16. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
17. 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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18. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more
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19. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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20. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
By: Michael Pollan
4.27
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
21. Last Night in Montreal
By: Emily St. John Mandel
3.73
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more
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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal
22. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more
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"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
23. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel
By: Mark Paul
4.03
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke th… read more
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24. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks
By: Chris Herring
4.30
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more
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25. Barkley: A Biography
By: Timothy Bella
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more
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26. LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
By: Brian Windhorst
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James's… read more
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27. The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History
By: Dana O'Neil
4.29
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in colleg… read more
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28. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
By: David Leonhardt
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more
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29. Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football
By: John Eisenberg
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit tran… read more
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30. The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics
By: Michael Holley
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
** Selected by the Wall Street Journal among the Best Sports Books of 2021 ** A New York Times bes… read more
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31. Hoops Heist: Seattle, the Sonics and How a Stolen Team's Legacy Gave Rise to the NBA's Secret Empire
By: Jon Finkel
3.95
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the untold story of the city of Seattle, their beloved Sonics, and how the legacy of their … read more
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