What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
By: Donovan Moore
4.30
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discove…
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1. Barnaby Rudge
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen
3.72
Format: None pages,
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more
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2. The Magician's Elephant
By: Kate DiCamillo , Yoko Tanaka
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpect… read more
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3. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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4. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
By: Mary Roach
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
Grunttackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion… read more
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6. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more
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7. Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the… read more
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"Still, what made people tick was no great mystery, was it? Greed. Lust. Anger. Jealousy. You could almost let your voice fall right there. Love? Some people claimed it made the world go round, but he…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"«Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que había olvidado algo era uno de los placeres más infravalorados de la vida.Cuántas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier lug…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"Maybe that was what marriage meant, except that in theirs it had been a one-way street. He couldn't think of a single behavior of Becka's that he had altered in the slightest. But perhaps that was be…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
8. The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
By: Elaine Showalter
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Unfailingly vivid--and fair-minded" --The Atlantic "Riveting" --The New York Times Book Review "A … read more
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9. Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
By: Malachi Martin
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
One On One With Satan A chilling and highly convincing account of possession and exorcism in modern… read more
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10. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
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- science
11. 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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- history
12. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
13. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
By: C.A. Fletcher
4.15
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've n… read more
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"I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think"-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn’t know about."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
"I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me."-C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
14. The Light Pirate
By: Lily Brooks-Dalton
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more
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"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate
15. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
By: Christopher C. Gorham
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more
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- nonfiction
16. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.08
Format: 416 pages, ebook
New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more
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- history
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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
17. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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18. Dog Day Afternoon (Andy Carpenter, #29)
By: David Rosenfelt
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Paterson, New Jersey’s favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the n… read more
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19. A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France
By: Steve Hoffman
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An American food writer moves his family of unlikely expats to the French countryside, where the lo… read more
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20. What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
By: Donovan Moore
4.30
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discove… read more
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- nonfiction
- history of science
- astronomy
- physics
- science
21. Vera Rubin: A Life
By: Jacqueline Mitton
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understandi… read more
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