Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
By: Mark Whitaker
4.29
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Summer Before the War
By: Helen Simonson
3.78
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love an… read more
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- historical
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"Smile,"-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
"Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit."-Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War
2. The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By: John Steinbeck , Richard Astro
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate edition can be found here. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his grea… read more
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- nonfiction
"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long"-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
3. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
By: Thomas Cahill
3.81
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
4. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
6. 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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7. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
By: August Wilson
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more
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9. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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10. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
13. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
15. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- music
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
16. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)
By: Nghi Vo
4.03
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more
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17. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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- audiobook
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
18. Fear: Trump in the White House
By: Bob Woodward
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more
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- american history
- history
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- audiobook
"He’s a fucking moron,"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
19. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
By: Jennifer Palmieri
3.90
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling vol… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down."-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
"Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to fe…"-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
20. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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21. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By: Mark Harmon
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
By: Gemma Hollman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
25. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
26. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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- race
- african american
"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
27. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
By: Russell Shorto
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thou… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
By: Tanisha C. Ford
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urb… read more
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- history
- social justice
29. Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
By: David Wolman
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of The Boys in the Boat comes the captivating true story of the Hawaiian cowboys who … read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
30. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
By: Mark Whitaker
4.29
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“ Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other black renaissance and spend time with … read more
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31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
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