From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
By: John Sedgwick
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. On Stranger Tides
By: Tim Powers
3.82
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael, puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his … read more
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"Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it away."-Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides
"…And unmoored souls may drift on stranger tides Than those men know of, and be overthrown By winds that would not even stir a hair…"-Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides
"Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight."-Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides
"Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we pr…"-Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides
2. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
3. Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
By: Beth Macy
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Timesbestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrati… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
By: Hampton Sides
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more
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- westerns
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
5. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
By: N.T. Wright
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selli… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Last Kind Words Saloon
By: Larry McMurtry
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry… read more
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7. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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8. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated
By: Shea Serrano , Reggie Miller , Arturo Torres
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
#1 New York Timesbestseller Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jo… read more
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9. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
By: David Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
From The Breaks of the Gameto Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a grea… read more
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10. The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
By: Mark Frost
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The year: 1956. Four decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the ten-year-old caddie… read more
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11. Book Scavenger (Book Scavenger, #1)
By: Sarah Watts , Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A hidden book. A found cipher. A game begins . . . . Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. He… read more
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12. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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13. Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
By: Guy Lawson
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and th… read more
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14. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar
By: Alan Shipnuck
4.06
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
17. Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the … read more
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- audiobook
"Compulsion is the death of friendship."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"I sew his ears on from time to time, sure."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
"Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man."-Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
18. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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19. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- history
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20. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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- audiobook
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
21. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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- audiobook
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
22. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
23. To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life … read more
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- history
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- audiobook
24. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.84
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more
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- audiobook
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
25. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)
By: Elliott West
4.47
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the Ameri… read more
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- westerns
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26. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
By: Thomas E. Ricks
4.08
Format: 416 pages, ebook
New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more
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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
27. The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
By: John Eisenberg
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and bu… read more
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28. Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
By: Max Allan Collins
3.86
Format: 752 pages, ebook
At last, the definitive history of Al Capone, Eliot Ness's Untouchables, and gangster-era Chicago –… read more
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29. From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
By: John Sedgwick
3.68
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting...A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the w… read more
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- american history
- american
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- westerns
- travel
- politics
- trains
- nonfiction
- railways
30. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more
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31. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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