Champion of the World
By: Chad Dundas
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of…
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1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more
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- fiction
"She was a cute as a washtub."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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- historical
- american history
"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
3. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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- american history
4. The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling
By: David Shoemaker
3.38
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestl… read more
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5. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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6. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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- fiction
"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
7. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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8. AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
By: Tom McNichol
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"AC/DC" tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between sup… read more
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9. Ali vs. Inoki: The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment
By: Josh Gross
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
"Inoki can use his bare fists. He can use karate. This is serious. There's $10 million involved. I … read more
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10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
By: Kevin Eastman
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more
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- fiction
11. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
12. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
13. Is This Anything?
By: Jerry Seinfeld
3.72
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades … read more
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- audiobook
14. Night Fever
By: Ed Brubaker
3.87
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more
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- fiction
15. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- audiobook
16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- audiobook
17. Pulp
By: Ed Brubaker
4.31
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
NOW AVAILABLE AS A SOFT COVER TRADE PAPERBACK: A gorgeous original graphic novel from the bestselli… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
18. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
19. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By: Janelle Monáe
3.76
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more
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- audiobook
"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
20. 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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- american history
- audiobook
21. Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas
By: Gill Paul
4.15
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and … read more
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- american history
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
22. Call Your Daughter Home
By: Deb Spera
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading … read more
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- literary fiction
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
23. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)
By: Chris Offutt
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more
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- audiobook
25. Winter Counts
By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
3.84
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more
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- audiobook
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts
26. The Last Animal
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.47
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more
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27. The Woman Before Wallis
By: Bryn Turnbull
3.89
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Paris Wife and The Crown, this stunning novel tells the true story of the American … read more
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- historical fiction
28. Business Is About to Pick Up!: 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls
By: Jim Ross
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Experience 50 years of wrestling history through the iconic voice of Jim Ross. For wrestling fan… read more
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- audiobook
29. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more
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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
30. Living the Gimmick
By: Bobby Mathews
4.39
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
When retired pro wrestler Alex Donovan sees his best friend, former world champion ‘The Wild Child’… read more
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31. Champion of the World
By: Chad Dundas
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of… read more
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