Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
By: Gregg Mitman
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world” ( Kirkus Reviews ) w…
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1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
By: Lynne Truss
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made … read more
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- nonfiction
"The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop."-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
By: Mimi Alford
3.58
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
In '62, Mimi Beardsley was a naive teen, a product of her class & time. She'd attended the same exc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
3. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
By: Barry Estabrook
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
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- nonfiction
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4. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent-… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
By: None
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"Vivid . . . An engaging and accessible account." --Publishers Weekly In 1820, a small group of Afr… read more
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8. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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10. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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11. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
By: Katherine Anne Porter
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more
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12. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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13. 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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- audiobook
"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
14. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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- audiobook
15. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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16. From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)
By: Elizabeth Schaefer
3.93
Format: 573 pages, Hardcover
Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless S… read more
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17. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
18. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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19. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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20. Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for w… read more
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21. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
By: Anne Applebaum
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more
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"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
22. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more
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"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
23. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
By: Eric Jay Dolin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through … read more
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24. Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.12
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s citi… read more
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"Rapists are created, not born"-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
"Islamism has become the “go-to"-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
"The UK Social Mobility Commission found that only 19.8 percent of adult British Muslims had a full-time job in 2017"-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
"It appears that those immigrants with illiberal and misogynistic ideas are protected but we liberal feminists are not."-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
25. Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
By: Marie Yovanovitch
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador … read more
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"Just as in the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine conspiracy, we saw a ruthless, single-minded obsession with staying in power; a manifest lack of moral values, shame, and civility; and a stunning disregard of a…"-Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
26. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
27. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
By: Nur Masalha
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, the land of Palestine has been fought over by competing faiths, nations and empires.… read more
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28. Twilight Territory
By: Andrew X. Pham
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Japanese-occupied Vietnam,… read more
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29. Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
By: Gregg Mitman
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world” ( Kirkus Reviews ) w… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
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30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
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