Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
By: Joan DeJean
3.60
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found po…
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1. Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
4.27
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Champion. Survivor.Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 9… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I was raised to face any challenge."-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
"God knew my needs and took care accordingly."-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
"To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind."-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
"It was all in His hands now - as it had always been."-Louis Zamperini, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
2. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
By: Rich Cohen
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A legendary tale, both true and astonishing, from the author of Israel is Real and Sweet and LowWhe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. The Winter Siege
By: Ariana Franklin , Samantha Norman
3.96
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
A powerful historical novel by the late Ariana Franklin and her daughter Samantha Norman, The Siege… read more
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- historical
4. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
By: Thomas Cahill
3.81
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
5. The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
By: Garrard Conley
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"The power of Conley s story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy … read more
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- nonfiction
7. Julian
By: Gore Vidal
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spr… read more
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8. 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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9. The Swans of Fifth Avenue
By: Melanie Benjamin
1.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more
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10. The Innocents Abroad
By: Mark Twain
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about E… read more
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11. Fat Tuesday
By: Sandra Brown
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Paperback
Cop Burke Basile has nothing left to lose. Marriage and career over, he focuses on nemesis Pinkie D… read more
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12. Devil at My Heels
By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin
3.86
Format: None pages,
The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more
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13. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
14. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
15. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
By: Gareth Russell
4.21
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
17. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
19. The Lady in the Silver Cloud (Stewart Hoag, #13)
By: David Handler
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
"This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake."—Sarah Weinm… read more
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20. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
21. Indian Burial Ground
By: Nick Medina
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more
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"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground
22. Rust & Stardust
By: T. Greenwood
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she … read more
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- historical
"How could it be, how was it possible, when she felt like she was so far away, that the sky was the same?"-T. Greenwood, Rust & Stardust
23. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- history
25. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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- historical
26. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
By: Bill Shaffer
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
27. The Lemon
By: S.E. Boyd
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining, Hollywood, and the media, a darkly hilarious and ult… read more
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28. 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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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
29. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
By: Joan DeJean
3.60
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found po… read more
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- american history
- american
- history
- historical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- france
- womens
