Birthright: The True Story that Inspired 'Kidnapped'
By: A. Roger Ekirch
3.22
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
"Ekirch out-kidnaps Stevenson in this thrilling, thoroughly documented story." —Booklist, starred r…
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1. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
By: Sy Montgomery
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
By: Anthony Flacco , Jerry Clark , Michael Stone
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outsid… read more
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- crime
- biography
- nonfiction
3. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- adventure
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
4. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Swamplandia!
By: Karen Russell
3.27
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergla… read more
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"the gravity of wound to fist"-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
"The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around."-Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
7. 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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- history
- world history
8. The Music of Bees
By: Eileen Garvin
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
A heartwarming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, following three lone… read more
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9. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
10. Small World
By: Jonathan Evison
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Evison's Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the Ca… read more
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"...Walter [Bergen] reckoned that in a world that was forever changing, we were only as sure, and only as good, as our next step."-Jonathan Evison, Small World
"But always, since age three and a half, he [Malik Flowers] had known he wanted to ball, every minute of every day. Because hoops had it all: architecture, poetry, drama. Hoops was a dance, and a batt…"-Jonathan Evison, Small World
"Honey, sometimes there's no real why in this world,' Cora said. 'There just ain't one, not one that makes any sense, and not one that's any comfort to a soul. Most of the time in this world it's just…"-Jonathan Evison, Small World
"It was not a woman's destiny to be kept, nor to be traded according to a man's will. Where would men even be without women to forever serve their needs? Yet they apparently had no conception of their…"-Jonathan Evison, Small World
11. Birthright: The True Story that Inspired 'Kidnapped'
By: A. Roger Ekirch
3.22
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
"Ekirch out-kidnaps Stevenson in this thrilling, thoroughly documented story." —Booklist, starred r… read more
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- world history
- adventure
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 18th century
- crime
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