The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
By: Katie Booth
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell — renowned inventor of the telephone an…
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1. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
By: Ruth Reichl
4.18
Format: None pages,
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2. Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap, #2)
By: Adriana Trigiani
3.87
Format: 237 pages,
It has been eight years since pharmacist and longtime spinster Ave Maria Mulligan married. What she… read more
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3. A Disability History of the United States
By: Kim E. Nielsen
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more
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4. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
By: Edward Bellamy , Walter James Miller
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is t… read more
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5. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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6. The Children's Blizzard
By: David Laskin
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Childr… read more
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7. Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #1)
By: Adriana Trigiani
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gapis home to some of t… read more
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8. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
By: Matthew Goodman
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite direct… read more
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9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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10. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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11. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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12. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
13. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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14. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
By: Edward Humes
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more
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15. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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16. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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17. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
By: Nyle DiMarco
4.25
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and Deaf culture anthem by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time… read more
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18. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life
By: Matt Paxton
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his … read more
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19. The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
By: Molly Guptill Manning
4.22
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
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20. A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
By: Deena Emera
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause― A Brief History of the Female Body… read more
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21. The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
By: Katie Booth
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell — renowned inventor of the telephone an… read more
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