Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
By: Julie M. Fenster
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ether Day is the unpredictable story of America's first major scientific discovery -- the use of an…
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1. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
2. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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3. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.67
Format: None pages, ebook
A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda… read more
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- historical
4. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
By: Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin
3.67
Format: None pages,
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and ant… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. The Castaways (Nantucket, #2)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
3.71
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best frie… read more
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"He liked the atmosphere of skiing - the fire-warmed lodge, the view of a snowy mountainside, the clean air, the drinks - but not the sport itself."-Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways (Nantucket, #2)
6. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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7. Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more
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- historical
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
8. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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9. My Dear Hamilton
By: Stephanie Dray
4.30
Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eli… read more
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- historical
"I was someone before I met Alexander Hamilton" ~ Betsy Schuyler"-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
"The promise of liberty is not written in blood or engraved in stone, it's embroidered into the fabric of our nation."-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
"What a high-minded thing revolution had seemed when it started; but now I wondered if, in trying to bring about liberty, we’d instead opened the gates of endless war, bloodshed, and immorality."-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
"I could hear no more. I couldn't see, couldn't think, couldn't speak. This couldn't be happening again. How could it possibly be happening again? Was I, like my eldest daughter, caught in some delusi…"-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
10. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
By: Michelle McNamara
4.12
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Every obsession needs a room of its own."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"He loses his power when we know his face."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
11. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
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"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- history
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
13. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.28
Format: 282 pages, ebook
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more
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- nonfiction
"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
14. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
15. The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.00
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.… read more
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- historical
"A boy trying out a man's language."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
16. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- history
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
17. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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- historical
"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
18. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
19. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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20. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
By: Julie M. Fenster
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Ether Day is the unpredictable story of America's first major scientific discovery -- the use of an… read more
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- history
- biography
- history of medicine
- medical
- historical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- science
21. Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine
By: Patricia Grayhall
3.95
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a docto… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
