Thurgood Marshall: The Making of America #6
By: Teri Kanefield
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of the brilliant lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregat…
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1. The Ponder Heart
By: Eudora Welty
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of v… read more
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"He loved happiness like I love tea."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
"I'm a great reader that never has time to read."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
"It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart."-Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart
2. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
3. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Co…"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
4. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
By: Howard Means
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At midday on May 4, 1970, after three days of protests, several thousand students and the Ohio Nati… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By: Caroline Fraser
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Lit… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
6. Wonderful Tonight
By: Penny Junor , Pattie Boyd
3.16
Format: 288 pages,
A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight Why are you writing the book now? I have been a… read more
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- biography memoir
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7. Travels in Alaska
By: John Muir
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the late 1800s, John Muir made several trips to the pristine, relatively unexplored territory of… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
By: Candace Fleming , Jessica Hische
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum--as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and B… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- biography
- nonfiction
9. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
By: Gary Paulsen
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness… read more
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- biography
10. The Great Fire
By: Jim Murphy
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flour… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
11. The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
By: Jesse Marcel Jr.
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
"The world has waited a long time for the inside scoop on Roswell. We need more information from th… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
By: Anne Moody
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived thro… read more
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- biography
13. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
By: Ron Hansen
3.99
Format: None pages,
One of the great classic tales ofThe Great American West... IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of … read more
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14. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
By: Ann Bausum
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Freedom Riderscompares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that hel… read more
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15. Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World
By: Ewan McGregor , Charley Boorman , None
3.53
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan… read more
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16. Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
By: Ben Hamper
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of tr… read more
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17. Being Elvis: A Lonely Life
By: Ray Connolly
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were match… read more
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18. Johnny Cash: The Life
By: Robert Hilburn
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Hardcover
The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robe… read more
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19. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
20. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
21. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
By: Kara Goucher
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
24. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
26. We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible
By: Beto O'Rourke
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In We’ve Got To Try, O’Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron … read more
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- audiobook
27. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
By: Deborah Heiligman
4.00
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Con… read more
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"Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh"-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
"I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
"What a mystery life is, and love is a mystery within a mystery. -Vincent Van Gogh"-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
"How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone. -Vincent Van Gogh"-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
28. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
By: Jack Goldsmith
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more
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- audiobook
29. All the Way (Hot Jocks, #2)
By: Kendall Ryan
3.95
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
His protective streak runs a mile wide. She won't let her past define her. If you're in the … read more
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"I feel like I’m going to break,"-Kendall Ryan, All the Way (Hot Jocks, #2)
"Tucking her hair behind her ear, I meet her eyes. “I’m not jealous, I’m protective. Jealous is when you want something that’s not yours. Protective is looking after what’s yours already."-Kendall Ryan, All the Way (Hot Jocks, #2)
30. Thurgood Marshall: The Making of America #6
By: Teri Kanefield
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of the brilliant lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregat… read more
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