The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
By: Alex Tresniowski
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime…
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1. Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
By: Laura Ling , Lisa Ling
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North … read more
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- nonfiction
2. Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
By: Tori Telfer
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten fe… read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"If you meet her, you will like her. The con woman's likability is the single most tool she has, sharp as a chef's knife and fake as a theatre mask. Without her likability, she would be nothing. If yo…"-Tori Telfer, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
4. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
By: Jeff Guinn
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more
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- american history
- history
- true crime
- historical
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
5. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more
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- race
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- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
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"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
"Their military experience made them more of a threat. Their pride was seen as something in need of control. Once again irrational white supremacist fears turned into extreme forms of brutality. Accor…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
6. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
By: J. Reuben Appelman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
7. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
By: Jeff Yang
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Cultural critic Jeff Yang, blogger Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man, and Wong Fu Productions’ Philip Wang… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If you go to an “Asian American and Pacific Islander"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"American culture tends to see Asians as weak and in need of white people to come save us. That’s especially true in pop culture about the Vietnam War. The narrative is all about what Americans went t…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
"The project was already in development before I joined the division. I was at Touchstone Pictures in live action, and I had heard that they were doing Mulan, it was picking up heat, and they were int…"-Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
8. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
By: María Hinojosa
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when In the Heights was just starting off-Br… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
By: Loren Grush
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
By: Dean Jobb
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more
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- mystery
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11. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- mystery
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- audiobook
12. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- historical
- race
- audiobook
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
13. Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors
By: Denise Huskins
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' re-victimization by the justice sy… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
14. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
15. In the Upper Country
By: Kai Thomas
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more
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- historical
- race
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16. American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By: Kevin Hazzard
4.57
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the fi… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Three Girls from Bronzeville
By: Dawn Turner
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and h… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
By: Keith O'Brien
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air ra… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
By: Wayétu Moore
4.24
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
20. The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America
By: David Stout
3.49
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing true history of the kidnapping open-season that terrorized America The Great Dep… read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
21. The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
By: Alex Tresniowski
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime… read more
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