Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
By: Thomas Brothers
3.78
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver,…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. Washington's Crossing
By: David Hackett Fischer
4.15
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A power… read more
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- american history
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."-David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing
3. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
4. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
5. The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
By: Alan Brinkley
3.71
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the … read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
6. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
9. The Complete Poems
By: Carl Sandburg , Archibald MacLeish
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
The definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. "A marvelous prosody, a perfect ea… read more
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- nonfiction
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- history
- nonfiction
11. The Gentle Spirit
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.89
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more
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"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit
12. Christmas at Red Butte
By: L.M. Montgomery , Joanne Panettieri
3.92
Format: None pages,
A delightful tale of a Christmas sacrifice by renouned storyteller Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of … read more
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13. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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14. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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15. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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16. 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
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
By: Maureen Johnson
4.01
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Thinking of a foray to a quaint English village? You'll think twice after reading this tongue-in-ch… read more
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- nonfiction
18. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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19. Cut and Thirst
By: Margaret Atwood
3.15
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more
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20. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
21. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- biography
- history
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- nonfiction
22. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
3.76
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indi… read more
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"Percy and Lissa shared a father, but as far as Lissa was concerned, calling him her “half brother"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"Her precociousness hardened into defiance, and her defiance broke into a reckless rage that scared even her own mother."-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The casino was at the center of a constellation of transactions. I saw fishermen come to fish the lake; a woman looking for a job; elders cracking crab legs at the casino buffet—one of two restaurant…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The tribe was unprepared for the boom, he believed. After centuries of colonization—of federal entities weakening and displacing tribal institutions—it did not have the resources, let alone the exper…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
23. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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24. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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25. Lovers at the Museum
By: Isabel Allende
3.48
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind Knows My Name comes a mesmerizing tale of tw… read more
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26. A Night at the Tropicana
By: Chanel Cleeton
4.03
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
Cuba in the 1930s is the backdrop for a vibrant short story about the rhythms of the heart and the … read more
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27. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passiona… read more
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28. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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29. The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)
By: Alice Hoffman
3.97
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
In this star-crossed short story from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman, timing is ev… read more
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30. Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
By: Thomas Brothers
3.78
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver,… read more
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- music
- cultural
- american history
- biography
- history
- jazz
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
31. Christmas Presence: A Claus Universe Short Story
By: Tony Bertauski
4.23
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
An introduction to the Claus Universe, a series of original retellings of holiday legends. Worst C… read more
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