In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
By: Donald M. Marquis
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877–1931) are inextricably intertw…
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1. A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jonathan Lethem , L.J. Davis
3.60
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life , is a blistering black comedy about the American quest … read more
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2. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
3. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
4. The Man Who Died
By: Antti Tuomainen , David Hackston
3.82
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A dark, page-turning thriller, brimming with black comedy, from the King of Helsinki Noir A success… read more
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5. Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop
By: Mel Watkins , Yuval Taylor , Jake Austen
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is a… read more
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- music
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- history
6. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
7. Alien Hearts
By: Guy de Maupassant , Richard Howard
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of… read more
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8. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- history
- biography
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9. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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10. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
By: Gary Krist
4.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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12. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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13. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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14. Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
By: None
3.89
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
Edward -Kid- Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans ja… read more
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15. The Expendable Man
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more
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16. Champlain's Dream
By: David Hackett Fischer
4.15
Format: 384 pages,
In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life t… read more
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17. Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924
By: David Wondrich
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
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18. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
By: Brian Moore
3.76
Format: 234 pages,
'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also… read more
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19. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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20. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
By: Lawrence S. Ritter
5.00
Format: 299 pages,
From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more
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21. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
22. Collected Poems and Other Verse
By: Stéphane Mallarmé , A.M. Blackmore , E.H. Blackmore
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure i… read more
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23. Red Lights
By: Georges Simenon , Anita Brookner , Norman Denny
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
It is Friday evening before Labor Day weekend. Americans are hitting the highways in droves; the ra… read more
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24. I Am Legend
By: Richard Matheson
4.06
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more
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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
25. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
26. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
By: Theresa Runstedtler
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
27. The Silentiary
By: Antonio di Benedetto
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man em… read more
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28. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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29. In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
By: Donald M. Marquis
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877–1931) are inextricably intertw… read more
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30. Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (Expanded Edition)
By: Arthur Taylor
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about j… read more
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31. Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
By: Christopher Bonanos
4.02
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Chris… read more
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