The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
By: Miriam Pawel
4.26
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
"Miriam Pawel’s fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the l…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. 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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"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)
3. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
By: Sara Gran
3.69
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greates… read more
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"Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through. And for every one you miss there's some poor fucking soul who's been left behind, wa…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"My uncle, he used to say there was two Bibles," he said. "Or one, but it been split in half. He said half’s in the book, on paper. But the other half is inside people. You born with it, but it’s up t…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"There are no coincidences, only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overhead, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record …"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
4. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
By: Sara Gran
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited second book in the buzzed-about Claire DeWitt mystery series, featuring "one of… read more
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5. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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6. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
By: Chester Himes
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more
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8. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Díaz
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more
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10. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
11. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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12. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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13. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
By: David Grann
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more
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14. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
15. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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16. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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17. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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- biography
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- politics
- nonfiction
19. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- biography
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- politics
- nonfiction
20. 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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- biography
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21. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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22. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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23. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- biography
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
24. 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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25. The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
By: James M Zimmerman
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they pai… read more
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- history
26. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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27. Mike Nichols: A Life
By: Mark Harris
4.48
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment histor… read more
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28. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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29. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
By: Douglas Brinkley
4.17
Format: 576 pages, ebook
Instant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approache… read more
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30. The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini
4.25
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
Magnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired t… read more
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31. The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
By: Miriam Pawel
4.26
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
"Miriam Pawel’s fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the l… read more
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- politics
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