Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Sarah M.S. Pearsall
3.75
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of t…
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1. The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography
By: Matt Fradd
4.11
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The Porn Myth is a non- religious response to the commonly held belief that pornography is a harmle… read more
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2. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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3. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
By: Asti Hustvedt
3.80
Format: 384 pages,
A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology. Bla… read more
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4. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out b… read more
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5. The Blithedale Romance
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more
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6. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
7. The Robots of Dawn (Robot #3)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonizatio… read more
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8. Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
By: Chuck Wendig
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
HOOK YOUR AUDIENCE WITH UNFORGETTABLE STORYTELLING What do Luke Skywalker, John McClane, and a lone… read more
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9. The Violent Bear It Away
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Awayis now a landmark in American literature. It is a … read more
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10. The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
By: Simon Baron-Cohen
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes … read more
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11. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
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12. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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13. House of Hunger
By: Alexis Henderson
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Gi… read more
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"I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it."-Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger
14. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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15. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
16. Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
By: Timothy Zahn
4.17
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruc… read more
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"If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
"Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served."-Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
17. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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18. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
19. Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 1: Dark Heart of the Sith
By: Greg Pak
4.32
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
"Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as father and son!" In the shattering climax of T… read more
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20. Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)
By: Jennifer Aaker
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Anyone--even you!--can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the… read more
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"Having a sense of humor — both the ability to generate humor and to appreciate it — has repeatedly been found to correlate with measures of intelligence."-Jennifer Aaker, Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)
21. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
22. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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23. The Science of Storytelling
By: Will Storr
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more
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"The gift of story is wisdom"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
24. Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
By: Richard E. Turley
4.39
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, M… read more
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25. Jokes to Offend Men
By: Allison Kelley
3.37
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A modern, feminist take on the classic joke book to amuse and empower readers who are tired of bein… read more
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26. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
By: Spencer W. McBride
4.11
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ… read more
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27. Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Sarah M.S. Pearsall
3.75
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of t… read more
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