The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
By: Jack Gilden
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of t…
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1. Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood
By: Barbara Demick , John Edmond Costello
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): How the Silver Fox Became a Dog
By: Lee Alan Dugatkin , None
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears t… read more
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4. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
By: Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
4.27
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"With every girl there was a moment before you broke up when you knew - you just knew - that if you left her right then, you would never make up."-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
"Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investm…"-Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
5. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
6. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)
By: Scott Turow
3.82
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riv… read more
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8. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
9. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. 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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11. 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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- history
- nonfiction
12. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
15. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
17. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
18. Girls and Their Horses
By: Eliza Jane Brazier
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more
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19. Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
By: Fred M. Kray
4.21
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. A… read more
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- horse racing
- history
- sports
- nonfiction
20. The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
By: Jack Gilden
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of t… read more
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21. Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland
By: Tory Bilski
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."—Virgina Woolf Each June, Tory… read more
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