Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
By: Daniel S. Medwed
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con…
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1. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)
By: Jane Casey
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more
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2. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
By: Joanna Schwartz
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more
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3. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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4. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- adult
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5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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6. 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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7. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
4.10
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more
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8. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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9. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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10. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Evidence of Things Seen
By: Sarah Weinman
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more
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13. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
By: Axton Betz-Hamilton
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more
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14. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more
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15. Kill Show
By: Daniel Sweren-Becker
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more
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"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show
16. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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17. Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
By: Alexandra Natapoff
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as crimi… read more
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"[O]ffenses like disorderly conduct, obstruction, and resisting arrest are easily alleged, they effectively give police the power to arrest based on violations of their own sense of authority."-Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
"Once people understood that wrongful convictions were occurring regularly in homicide and rape cases, a widespread consensus developed that innocent people should not be convicted of serious crimes. …"-Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
18. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
By: Deborah Tuerkheimer
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence … read more
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19. Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
By: Daniel S. Medwed
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con… read more
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20. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a “smoking gun” of civil rights researc… read more
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21. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
By: Justin Brooks
4.66
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it c… read more
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