Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
By: Jeff Young
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behin…
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1. A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight, #1)
By: Steve Hamilton
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer A… read more
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2. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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3. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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4. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
By: Alissa Quart
3.37
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies t… read more
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5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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6. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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7. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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8. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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9. Ohio
By: Stephen Markley
3.87
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in nort… read more
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"New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"You make someone your devil for long enough, and you want to hold onto that. There's something rapturous about hating another person, especially if you have a goddamned good reason."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"What an important lesson for every young person to learn: If you defy the collective psychosis of nationalism, of imperial war, you will pay for it. And the people in your community, your home, who y…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do som…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
10. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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11. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
12. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
By: Harry N. MacLean
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more
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13. 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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14. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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15. The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.98
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not prete… read more
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"Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"Always, in the Bull Court, our most precious trophies were the gifts of the dead."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
"A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it."-Mary Renault, The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
16. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
By: Rick Bragg
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but t… read more
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"Does he bite?"-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
"Goodnight, buddy,"-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
"I am beginning to think that the word “no,"-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
"But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already."-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
17. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
By: Elizabeth Catte
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more
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18. 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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19. Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
By: Alan Maimon
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfec… read more
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20. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By: Chris McGreal
4.15
Format: 336 pages, ebook
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more
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21. Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
By: Jeff Young
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behin… read more
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