The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion
By: Hugh B. Urban
3.61
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religion Scientology is one of the weal…
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1. The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
By: Paul E. Johnson , Sean Wilentz
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This narrative history brings to life the spiritual and sexual tensions of mid-19th-century America… read more
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- religion
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2. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more
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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
3. Bones & All
By: Camille DeAngelis
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had w… read more
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"That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there’s a second part of me, biding it’s time. It can go on like that for months…"-Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
By: David Chidester
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Praise for the first edition: "[This] ambitious and courageous book [is a] benchmark of theology by… read more
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6. Redwall (Redwall, #1)
By: Brian Jacques
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias. R… read more
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"I am that is, my sword shall wield for me."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"All work and no play makes Matthias a dull mouse."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean...."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
"Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it."-Brian Jacques, Redwall (Redwall, #1)
7. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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8. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
9. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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10. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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11. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
By: None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to… read more
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12. Sunshine
By: Robin McKinley
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Mass Market Paperback
There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't bee… read more
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13. What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End #3)
By: David Wong
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi th… read more
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14. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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15. The Myth of American Religious Freedom
By: David Sehat
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal … read more
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16. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3
By: James Tynion IV
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
As the House of Slaughter arrives to clean up the situation by any means necessary, Erica will find… read more
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17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
18. How to Sell a Haunted House
By: Grady Hendrix
3.68
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more
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"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
19. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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20. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
21. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By: Michael Lewis
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more
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22. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- religion
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23. The Deep Sky
By: Yume Kitasei
3.71
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more
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"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky
24. Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
By: Viktor E. Frankl
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his internati… read more
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"A human being should never become a means to an end."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"It is the nature of love that makes us see our loved one in their uniqueness and individuality."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
"We also do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains."-Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
25. American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in … read more
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- religion
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26. Spin a Black Yarn
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more
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27. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
28. Clean: The New Science of Skin
By: James Hamblin
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more
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"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin
29. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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30. The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion
By: Hugh B. Urban
3.61
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religion Scientology is one of the weal… read more
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31. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture) (Gender & American Culture)
By: Sharla Fett
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conju… read more
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