The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
By: Julian Rubinstein
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonf…
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1. Rules of Seduction
By: Jenna Mullins
4.00
Format: 224 pages, ebook
The first rule of seduction is: don't fall in love. Fresh out of college, Dani Young heads for the … read more
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2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- history
- true crime
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- nonfiction
- social justice
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
3. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- american history
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
4. The Last Ranger
By:
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Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
By: Noé Álvarez
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. 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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- true crime
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- crime
- audiobook
8. Talking to My Angels
By: Melissa Etheridge
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . … read more
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- audiobook
9. Punch Me Up to the Gods
By: Brian Broome
4.33
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing… read more
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"My second baby was a girl. Cutest thing you ever did see. He was happy with a girl. His first born. He liked havin’ a girl. He fell in love with her and played with her and praised her every move. Se…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
"I think about my father and the clarity that comes with age tells me that he must have suffered... He was anxious. He was lonely. And he was insecure. There is no thing on earth more dangerous than a…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
10. Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
By: Alan Prendergast
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one roo… read more
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- politics
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- crime
- audiobook
11. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
By: Joel H. Morris
3.72
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more
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12. Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
By: Ted Conover
3.90
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ted Conover, a … read more
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13. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more
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14. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
15. Health and Safety: A Breakdown
By: Emily Witt
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex (“introspective and breathtakin… read more
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16. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
By: Jax Miller
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decade… read more
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"I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes."-Jax Miller, Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
17. Weekends with You
By: Alexandra Paige
3.36
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming and romantic debut told over the course of one year in monthly weekend installments,… read more
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18. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
By: Kim Mager
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more
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19. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more
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20. The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
By: Julian Rubinstein
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonf… read more
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21. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards
By: Jessica Waite
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more
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