Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
By: Monique Villa
4.07
Format: 216 pages, ebook
The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of…
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1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
2. The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
By: Mark Shaw
2.00
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
On November 8, 1965, millions of fans of 'What's My Line?' CBS television star, Pulitzer Prize-nomi… read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
3. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
By: Adam Alter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addi… read more
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4. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult
By: None
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more
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5. Sold
By: Patricia McCormick
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when t… read more
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6. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
By: Gertrude Stein
4.15
Format: None pages,
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklaswas written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobi… read more
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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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8. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
By: Carl Sagan
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into… read more
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9. Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
By: Sandeep Jauhar
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The New York TimesBestseller "An extraordinary, brave and even shocking document. Dr. Jauhar's shar… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- economics
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- nonfiction
12. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- economics
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
13. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- true crime
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
14. 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
"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
15. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
By: Jessica Pan
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more
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- nonfiction
"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
16. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- true crime
17. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more
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- nonfiction
"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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19. The Pale-Faced Lie
By: David Crow
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and surv… read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
"Her definition of love was obligation and guilt."-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie
"No tie is as strong as family, making it the hardest one to break."-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie
"For the first time, I saw my behavior from someone else’s point of view."-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Believe in yourself. Never quit."-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie
20. A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
By: Kerri Rawson
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri … read more
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- true crime
21. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
22. Before and After
By: Judy Christie
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more
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- true crime
23. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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- true crime
24. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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- true crime
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
25. They Went Left
By: Monica Hesse
4.24
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over,… read more
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"Choose to love."-Monica Hesse, They Went Left
"Our minds are nothing. That's the biggest nothing, the reason we are still in the hospital. Our minds are soft. Confused."-Monica Hesse, They Went Left
26. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
By: Lisa Genova
4.19
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do … read more
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- nonfiction
"You don't need memory to love or feel loved."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it'll happen even more."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
"We frequently invent new information, often inaccurate, to fill in gaps in our memories so that the narrative feels more complete or pleasing."-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
27. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
By: John E. Douglas
4.15
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more
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- nonfiction
- true crime
"I miss my dog,"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
28. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil Wa… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
By: Jerry Mitchell
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would… read more
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- true crime
30. Black Buck
By: Mateo Askaripour
3.71
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780358380887 For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wa… read more
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"My teeth are status quo and powerful, also known as white and straight..."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"The day that changed my life was like every other day before it, except that it changed my life."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"The media feeds off of black blood like vampires. They want more of it, and they’ll pit us against each other jus’ to see it fly like firecrackers on the Fourth of July."-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
"An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it's the potential for failure, more than failure itself, that stops so many…"-Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
31. Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
By: Monique Villa
4.07
Format: 216 pages, ebook
The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of… read more
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- economics
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