Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life
By: Nick Lyons
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
**Named One of the New York Post' s Best New Books to Read ** FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and d…
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1. Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
By: Lawrence Sutin , Jack Sutin , Rochelle Sutin
4.27
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
A gripping memoir wherein Jack and Rochelle Sutin recount their struggle to survive the Holocaust a… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
By: Michael N. McGregor
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An illuminating biography of the minimalist poet Robert Lax, a man who embraced simplicity, humilit… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
3. Our Town
By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more
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4. Blaming the Wind
By: Alessandra Harris
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Sophia Douglas can't shake the fear that she's in over her head. A spontaneous elopement and a layo… read more
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5. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
By: Lewis Buzbee
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates th… read more
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6. Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance [With DVD]
By: None
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
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7. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- nonfiction
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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
8. The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
By: Kelli Estes
4.10
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poig… read more
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9. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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10. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
By: Cait Flanders
3.47
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the co… read more
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- biography
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"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
11. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
12. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
14. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
15. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- biography
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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
16. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
17. Led Zeppelin: The Biography
By: Bob Spitz
4.06
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the autho… read more
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18. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
19. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
20. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- biography
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
21. The Exiles
By: Christina Baker Kline
4.15
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally … read more
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"A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you’ve been. You carry them with you …"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
"This is why we can’t leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powd…"-Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles
22. The Postmistress of Paris
By: Meg Waite Clayton
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Now an International bestseller, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America B… read more
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"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
23. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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24. The Nickel Boys
By: Colson Whitehead
4.26
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Ameri… read more
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"Even in death the boys were trouble."-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
"Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world"-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
"People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities."-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
"The encyclopedias are empty. There are people who trick you and deliver emptiness with a smile, while others rob you of your self-respect. You need to remember who you are."-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
25. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
By: Mark Bulik
3.82
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America… read more
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"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
26. Out of the Wreckage
By: Kirk Yeager
3.59
Format: None pages, None
In this fascinating essay, Kirk Yeager, the FBI’s current chief explosives scientist, details the g… read more
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27. Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life
By: Nick Lyons
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
**Named One of the New York Post' s Best New Books to Read ** FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and d… read more
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28. The Witch of Eye
By: Kathryn Nuernberger
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches”… read more
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- memoir
"One way of thinking about a wife is that she is more or less invisible and so more or less free, provided she can remember to keep her head down long enough to stay that way."-Kathryn Nuernberger, The Witch of Eye
"The character of a king is a way of believing things happen for a reason. The queen is a way of being angry at someone besides God. A witch is a woman who thought her story ended with that wedding a …"-Kathryn Nuernberger, The Witch of Eye
29. Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
By: Andrew Albin
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the … read more
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30. The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter
By: Daniel J. Patinkin
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Six moving profiles reveal the human stories behind gun violence in the United States. A mother… read more
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31. Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writers Journey Through Greece
By: Mark Haskell Smith
3.59
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
"Rude Talk in Athens is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific ch… read more
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