The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses (Mammoth Books 429)
By: Paul Simpson
4.26
Format: 547 pages, Kindle Edition
An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a hand…
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1. The Revenant
By: Michael Punke
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already. Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers o… read more
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"Le géant poussa un dernier soupir et mourut à la clarté des étoiles de la plaine."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant"-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
"The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens."-Michael Punke, The Revenant
2. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more
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3. Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
By: Garrard Conley
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"The power of Conley s story resides not only in the vividly depicted grotesqueries of the therapy … read more
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5. Black Box: Inside the World's Worst Air Crashes
By: Nicholas Faith
3.78
Format: 377 pages,
The smash-hit bestseller about the world's worst air crashes and the disaster detectives who pick t… read more
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6. American Dreams (Crown Family Saga, #2)
By: John Jakes
3.98
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Spanning 1906-1917, the second generation of the immigrant Crown family sends three dreamers to new… read more
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7. Homeland (Crown Family Saga, #1)
By: John Jakes
3.98
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
At the dawn of a new century, from the uncontrolled chaos of Chicago's infamous Pullman Strike, to … read more
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8. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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9. Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more
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"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
10. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
By: Joe Haldeman
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more
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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
11. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
By: Graham Bowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages,
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most … read more
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12. Life After Life
By: Kate Atkinson
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, … read more
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13. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
14. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
By: Hugh Brewster
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyagetakes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites… read more
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15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
16. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.72
Format: 16 pages, Audiobook
15 hours, 54 minutes Read by a 45-person cast, with Holter Graham and the author Over the pas… read more
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"We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was …"-Garrett M. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
17. Contact
By: Carl Sagan
4.15
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more
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"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"-Carl Sagan, Contact
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."-Carl Sagan, Contact
18. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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19. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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20. Fly Girl: A Memoir
By: Ann Hood
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of gla… read more
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21. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
By: Craig L. Symonds
4.65
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most distinguished naval historians, the first wartime biography in a half-century … read more
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22. Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster
By: Jon Ziomek
4.19
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, w… read more
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23. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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24. The Day They Fell From The Sky: 10 Lone Survivors and Their Harrowing and Incredible True Stories of Plane-Crash Survival
By: Oliver Martin Cass
3.93
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
Resilience is humanity’s greatest strength against the harsh realities of the world. these tales ma… read more
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25. Cleared for Takeoff: Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller
By: John R. "Rusty" Potter
4.18
Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition
Cleared for Memoirs of an Air Traffic Controller If you are intrigued by the fast-paced field of a… read more
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26. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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27. Airline Pilot: A Day in the Life
By: Grant Corriveau
4.44
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is the captain speaking…” You’ve heard the announcements. But, have you ever wondered what’s… read more
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28. Secrets from the Cockpit: Pilots Behaving Badly and other Flying Stories
By: Robert Schapiro
4.47
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
'A witty, sometimes heart-stopping, and always engrossing path from "boy pilot" to elite aviator.' … read more
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29. The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses (Mammoth Books 429)
By: Paul Simpson
4.26
Format: 547 pages, Kindle Edition
An incredible 30,000 flights – at least – arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a hand… read more
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30. Air Disaster 2: The Jet Age
By: Macarthur Job
4.29
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
Jet travel shrank the world. Planes could fly faster, further and at higher altitude; opening the d… read more
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31. Air Disaster: The Propeller Era
By: Macarthur Job
4.16
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
From the earliest days of manned flight, one issue above all others has preoccupied pilots and pass… read more
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