Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
By: Beebe Bahrami
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe’s most concentrated regions f…
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1. Wifey
By: Judy Blume
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
With more than four million copies sold, Wifey is Judy Blume's hilarious, moving tale of a woman wh… read more
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2. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Dread Nation
By: Justina Ireland
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more
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5. The Testament of Mary
By: Colm Tóibín
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more
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6. Breathless
By: Dean Koontz
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Timesbestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventur… read more
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7. Behold the Dreamers
By: Imbolo Mbue
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a b… read more
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8. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
9. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
- science
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- science nature
11. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
- science
12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- natural history
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
14. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
By: Charlotte Vassell
3.35
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more
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"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)
15. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
16. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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- science
- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
17. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
18. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. Dragonfall (Dragon Scales, #1)
By: L.R. Lam
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the first in this magical new… read more
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20. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
21. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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22. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
By: Kermit Pattison
4.13
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ard… read more
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- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
23. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more
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- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
24. The Ungrateful Refugee
By: Dina Nayeri
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with thos… read more
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- memoir
"Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied.…"-Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee
25. After the Forest
By: Kell Woods
3.81
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more
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"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"-Kell Woods, After the Forest
26. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
27. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
By: Aminatou Sow
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can cont… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I love that you've known every version of me. You were there at the beginning and I want you there at the end."-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
"When you are obsessed with your friend's brain, it's natural to crave ordered conversations and excuses to go deeper."-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
"It can be extremely hard to figure out the right amount of growth and sacrifice to be devoting to a friendship, because we're not taught that friends are worth stretching for at all. Your spouse? Def…"-Aminatou Sow, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
28. Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jami… read more
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- memoir
- natural history
- nonfiction
- archaeology
"But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy …"-Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing
29. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
"God doesn't come when you snap your fingers, He comes when you're ready for Him." Nimue snapped her delicate fingers, producing a strikingly loud pop in the quiet. "That's the difference between a sp…"-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
30. Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
By: Beebe Bahrami
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe’s most concentrated regions f… read more
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- history
- memoir
- evolution
- natural history
- nonfiction
- france
- science nature
- archaeology
- anthropology
31. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
By: Jesse Wegman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy." —Donald TrumpThe framers of the Constitution… read more
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- history
