Off The Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
By: Beppe Severgnini
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obs…
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1. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
By: Bill Bryson
3.24
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funnie… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
4. California. La fine del sogno
By: Francesco Costa
4.13
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probab… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Le cose che ci salvano
By: Lorenza Gentile
3.83
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
Gea vive in un condominio sui Navigli di Milano e non oltrepassa mai i confini del suo quartiere. I… read more
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6. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)
By: C.S. Harris
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more
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- audiobook
7. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.70
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more
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- audiobook
"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
8. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
By: Rhaina Cohen
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
10. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
11. The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
By: Jessica Nabongo
3.86
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black … read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It's now nearly impossible for me to name a favorite thing. I have nether a favorite country, nor a favorite food. Life is too full of amazingly beautiful things, people, and places to pick just one."-Jessica Nabongo, The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
12. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
By: Charles Wheelan
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family dec… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"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
14. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
By: Jessica Hernandez
3.81
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more
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- audiobook
15. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
By: Will Hunt
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stat… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"My thoughts earthwormed down inside my body, chewing through my inner architecture. It was the feeling of being peeled open, turned inside out. I felt the rhythmic clenching of my heart, my lungs bal…"-Will Hunt, Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
16. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
By: Christopher Ingraham
3.88
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his l… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
17. Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace
By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
18. The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
By: Stephen Kurczy
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiF… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The electro-sensitives were right: We do need a break from our devices. The hippies were right: We need to reconnect with the land. The astronomers were right: We do need to be silent to listen."-Stephen Kurczy, The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence
19. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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20. 12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic
By: Jen Ruiz
3.46
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defy… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Take only photographs and leave only footsteps"-Jen Ruiz, 12 Trips in 12 Months: Make Your Own Solo Travel Magic
21. Off The Rails: A Train Trip Through Life
By: Beppe Severgnini
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obs… read more
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