My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
By: Miss Cassette
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
2021 Nebraska Book Award My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some…
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1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2. Food: A Love Story
By: Jim Gaffigan
3.71
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more
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- nonfiction
"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story
3. The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
By: John W. DeCamp
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agenc… read more
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4. Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, #2)
By: Deborah Harkness
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
IT BEGAN WITH A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful wit… read more
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5. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more
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6. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
7. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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- nonfiction
"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
8. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
9. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Vampires of El Norte
By: Isabel Cañas
3.90
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more
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11. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
12. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
By: Rupert Holmes
3.85
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru… read more
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"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"I'm afraid I was buried in thought. Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
"And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'...."-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
13. Twice in a Blue Moon
By: Christina Lauren
3.63
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heart… read more
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"Can you believe me, though?"-Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon
"Shock is a cold hand on my shoulder, a complete standstill in my brain and chest and veins."-Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon
"You're an enigma, you have to know that.' Charlie and Trey go still, as if they're working to be invisible during this conversation. 'I'm an enigma?' 'Beautiful,' he says, 'but sort of unknowable."-Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon
"Listen to me on this. The only sure thing in this business is that you’ll have to fight harder every goddamn year and you can only count on yourself. If you want to stay relevant, you have to make op…"-Christina Lauren, Twice in a Blue Moon
14. XOXO
By: Axie Oh
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Cello prodigy Jenny has one goal: to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets myst… read more
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"It’s important to take time for yourself, even with responsibilities. You can’t be there for other people if you’re not first there for yourself."-Axie Oh, XOXO
"My girlfriend that I was in love with who broke up with me on a hospital rooftop three months ago in Seoul shows up right before my concert in New York City. Yeah, I forgot about it."-Axie Oh, XOXO
"People do strange things to protect their hearts. But when you're afraid, your heart is closed, and it's never the right time, but when your heart is open, and you're willing to be brave enough to ta…"-Axie Oh, XOXO
"I'm saying, people do strange things to protect their hearts. But when you're afraid, your heart is closed, and it's never the right time, but when your heart is open, and you're willing to be brave …"-Axie Oh, XOXO
15. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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16. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
17. Portrait of a Thief
By: Grace D. Li
3.46
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more
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"We’re children of the diaspora,"-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief
18. The World Record Book of Racist Stories
By: Amber Ruffin
4.40
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedia… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
20. The Hacienda
By: Isabel Cañas
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more
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"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
21. Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)
By: Nisha Sharma
3.60
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Dating Dr. Dil features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are… read more
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"To each their own"-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)
"Being single is for white people. You need to stop it."-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)
"It’s hard to communicate the immigrant experience with those who don’t understand. We want to support and be with our families, and sometimes we sacrifice our mental health and our emotional well-bei…"-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)
"Romance novels sell an idealized fantasy that we all want to experience. They may be fiction, but there is a reason why so many people connect to love stories. Because that’s the type of feeling we w…"-Nisha Sharma, Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare Was an Auntie, #1)
22. Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
By: Ngozi Ukazu
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and heartbreaking confessions of a figure skater turned collegiate hockey player who'… read more
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"Do you ever think about being with someone but realize it's impossible and then get really sad so you bake a pie instead."-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
"Crushes are stressful. Dating is disappointing. Every relationship, you either break up or get married & then divorced. Pies can't hurt you."-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)
23. Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones (Check, Please!, #3-4)
By: Ngozi Ukazu
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
I'm a junior on the Samwell men's hockey team now, and not only do I have new teammates and new res… read more
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24. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
By: Talia Hibbert
3.72
Format: 336 pages, ebook
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud sto… read more
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"Are you worried about me, love?"-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
"She's a pop of scarlet in the November fog."-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
"Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones."-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
"You're allowed anywhere you want, as long as you're right next to me."-Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
25. Once More with Feeling
By: Elissa Sussman
3.56
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Then. Katee Rose is living the dream as America's number one pop star, caught in a whirlwind of sol… read more
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26. You're Invited
By: Amanda Jayatissa
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
What could be worse than your ex-boyfriend marrying your childhood best friend? Getting accused of … read more
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27. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
28. Ana María and the Fox (The Luna Sisters, #1)
By: Liana De la Rosa
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing … read more
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29. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By: John Paul Brammer
4.05
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming me… read more
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- nonfiction
"I thought of myself more as "a person with unique difficulty accessing heterosexuality."-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
"All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also sufferi…"-John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
30. Secret Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
By: Ryan Roenfeld
3.71
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
How did Omaha get its nickname, “The Gateway to the West” and where can you gawk at the footsteps o… read more
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31. My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
By: Miss Cassette
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
2021 Nebraska Book Award My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
