The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
By: Josh Levin
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie abou…
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1. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)
By: Edward Kelsey Moore
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and … read more
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"I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted down, "Maybe. Or maybe this is just what's supposed to be."-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)
"I was free to appreciate the quiet and the way the yellowish-gray light of the rising sun entered the room, turning everything from black and white to color. The journey from Kansas to Oz right in my…"-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)
"I looked around for that welcoming light I'd heard about, but I didn't see it. Instead, everything around me seemed to glow and shimmer in the sunlight. I heard beautiful sounds-not the voices of dea…"-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)
2. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
By: David France
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and … read more
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3. Now May You Weep (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #9)
By: Deborah Crombie
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
A gripping story of family rivalry, romance and sinister deeds, set in the haunting Scottish Highla… read more
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4. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
By: Craig Nelson
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of theevent that chan… read more
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5. The Run of His Life : The People versus O.J. Simpson
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
A behind-the-scenes look at the crime of the century and the legal proceedings that followed sheds … read more
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6. Death of a Poison Pen (Hamish Macbeth, #19)
By: M.C. Beaton
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A POISON PEN: A Hamish Macbeth My… read more
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7. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
By: Anthea Butler
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more
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8. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
9. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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10. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- crime
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- audiobook
11. Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
By: Amit Katwala
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and d… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
12. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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- audiobook
13. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
4.10
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more
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- american history
- history
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- sociology
- audiobook
14. My Squirrel Days
By: Ellie Kemper
3.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, re… read more
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"... Being a Mom is hard, but trying to remain rational while hungry is even harder."-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days
"Some people think they can barge in and give you their opinion even though you didn't ask for it."-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days
"I knew that I needed to quiet my mind; lucky for me, there is no place to quiet your mind like the northernmost edge of Manhattan's Times Square."-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days
"One of my great hobbies in life is feeling sorry for myself. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when I suspect I have been wronged. Oh, the energy!"-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days
15. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom
By: McCracken Poston Jr.
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more
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- crime
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16. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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- race
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- audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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18. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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19. The Murder List
By: Hank Phillippi Ryan
3.59
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart,… read more
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20. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more
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- audiobook
21. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
By: Josh Levin
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie abou… read more
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- crime
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