The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
By: Andrew W. Kahrl
3.76
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, y…
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1. Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
By: Ernest Cline
3.43
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after winning Oasis founder James … read more
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"I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down."-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
"I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission."-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
"To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its b…"-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
"But all I had to show for my efforts was an impressive familiarity with obscure Sailor Moon trivia and an inexplicable desire to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask (which I may or may not have acted upon in the …"-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
4. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
By: Karl Jacoby
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the … read more
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5. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
6. The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
By: Andrew W. Kahrl
3.76
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, y… read more
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7. The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts
By: Gilbert M. Gaul
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history―but who bears the brunt of these mon… read more
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