This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
By: David Ariosto
3.80
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
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1. For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice
By: Sharon Rocha
4.29
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of … read more
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2. Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
By: Phaedra Patrick
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Phaedra Patrick's debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, was hailed as "poignant" and "u… read more
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"When did he ever do something on the spur of the moment? He'd spent all his life focusing on something in the future, trying to attain it... He never thought about anything in the here and now, and e…"-Phaedra Patrick, Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
3. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more
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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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- nonfiction
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5. Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
By: Martin Brown , Travis Elborough
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This atlas of weird and unusual locations from National Geographic unveils the strange-but-true his… read more
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6. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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7. Same Kind of Different as Me
By: Lynn Vincent , Ron Hall , Denver Moore
3.18
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escap… read more
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8. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
9. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
4.54
Format: 608 pages,
The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of K… read more
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10. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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11. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By: Jon Krakauer
4.08
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more
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12. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
13. The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more
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"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."-Charles Frazier, The Trackers
14. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
15. Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
By: Sam Heughan
4.05
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Two Men. One Country. And a lot of whisky. As stars of "Outlander", Sam and Graham eat, sleep an… read more
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16. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
17. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more
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"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
18. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
19. A Single Thread
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become… read more
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"It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, what…"-Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread
20. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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21. Beautiful Things: A Memoir
By: Hunter Biden
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Bide… read more
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"I felt the astonishing luck of a man who'd agreed to meet a woman for coffee when it was all but impossible for him to leave a hotel room without a crack pipe in his hand, and who then fell in love a…"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
"Dad swiftly learned that if he didn't put an opponent's character front and center, he often could find a way to change minds or work out a compromise. No one walks out of a meeting when you say, "I …"-Hunter Biden, Beautiful Things: A Memoir
22. Cradles of the Reich
By: Jennifer Coburn
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called mast… read more
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23. Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultra-Right Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power
By: Kyle Spencer
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right—and how they’ve partnered wi… read more
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24. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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25. The Night Travelers
By: Armando Lucas Correa
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban… read more
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26. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
By: Shawn Cohen
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more
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27. A Most Clever Girl
By: Stephanie Marie Thornton
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A Novel of an American Spy A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incred… read more
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"Sinners make the best saints."-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl
"Nothing good lasts...Don't trust anyone who claims otherwise."-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl
"No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows."-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl
"Let this be my first lesson to you: words matter. Use them carefully, like bullets.)"-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl
28. Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
By: Alvin Hall
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with … read more
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"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"Under Jim Crow, Black Codes harshly restricted what people of color could do, In much of the country, Black people were prevented from voting, serving on juries, running for office, or defending thei…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"...Jim Crow was the American equivalent of South African apartheid and the racial laws passed in Germany under the Nazi regime of the 1930s. And these similarities are not merely coincidental. Histor…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"When the laws changed, what do you suppose happened to the vehement and the violent? Do you believe their opinions of Black people changed? Do you think they decided they had been wrong and adjusted …"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
29. A Christmas Resolution
By: Anne Perry
3.68
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A smitten woman is about to marry a dangerous man--unless Detective Hooper and his new wife, Celia,… read more
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30. Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed
By: Patrick Woodhouse
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the firs… read more
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31. This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
By: David Ariosto
3.80
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in Decembe… read more
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