When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918
By: Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer
3.74
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Dr. Pierre Sartor wrote an inspiring first-person account of how he treated more than 1,000 patient…
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- medical
- history
- nonfiction
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Vermilion Drift (Cork O'Connor, #10)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.31
Format: None pages,
Some nights, Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death. William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of s… read more
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3. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre
4.25
Format: 127 pages,
In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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- medical
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- nonfiction
- memoir
6. A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More
By: None
4.36
Format: 232 pages,
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7. Larkspur Cove (Moses Lake, #1)
By: Lisa Wingate
3.94
Format: None pages,
Adventure is the last thing on Andrea Henderson's mind when she moves to Moses Lake. After survivin… read more
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8. Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
By: Lorna Landvik
3.59
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Set adrift when her mother sells the salon which has been a neighborhood institution for decades, N… read more
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9. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- memoir
10. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Wild Scottish Love (The Enchanted Highlands #2)
By: Tricia O'Malley
4.44
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Wicked banter, kitchen witches, and hot men in kilts make this friends-to-lovers modern day Scottis… read more
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12. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
13. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)
By: John Grisham
4.26
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more
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15. 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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- medical
- history
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"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
16. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
By: Mandy Matney
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
By: Laura Dern
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
18. America Fantastica
By: Tim O'Brien
3.45
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more
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19. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir
By: Farah Naz Rishi
4.23
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
By: Anne Lamott
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more
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- memoir
"Look around and see whom you can serve."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Love is gentle if sometimes amused warmth for annoying and deeply disappointing people, especially ourselves."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
21. The Color of Destiny (The Color of Heaven #2)
By: Julianne MacLean
4.42
Format: None pages, None
Eighteen years ago a teenage pregnancy changed Kate Worthington’s life forever. Faced with many di… read more
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22. Good Night, Irene
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.14
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more
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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene
23. Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal
By: Adam Berry
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello , which ble… read more
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24. The House of Lincoln
By: Nancy Horan
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more
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"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln
"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln
25. In Picardy's Fields (Resistance Girl, #1)
By: Hannah Byron
4.35
Format: 310 pages, ebook
In Picardy’s Fields: the WW1 historical fiction romance that introduces the heroines destined to sh… read more
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26. The Color of Hope (The Color of Heaven, #3)
By: Julianne MacLean
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
Diana Moore has led a charmed life. She’s the daughter of a wealthy senator and living a glamorous … read more
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27. Sunflowers Beneath the Snow
By: Teri M. Brown
4.27
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards - Finalist in Women’s Fiction 2022 Book Excellence Award Finalist… read more
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"At the young, delicate age of 14, just two years older than her own Ionna was now, Yevt became an adult and swore to Party allegiance. It was the first of many such lies over the years to come."-Teri M. Brown, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow
"Her pragmatism, however, came in second place to her optimism. 'Life has a way of turning out the right way. I always say that everything turns out okay in the end. If it isn’t okay, it isn’t the end."-Teri M. Brown, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow
28. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
By: Pidgeon Pagonis
4.37
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Hey, hey, listen,"-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir
29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- memoir
30. When Winter Came: A country doctor's journey to fight the flu pandemic of 1918
By: Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer
3.74
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Dr. Pierre Sartor wrote an inspiring first-person account of how he treated more than 1,000 patient… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1)
By: Kat Ailes
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of s… read more
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