True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
4.18
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
“ True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique." —HAMPTON SIDES, New York Tim…
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1. Truman
By: David McCullough
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
3. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
By: Sean Naylor
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writi… read more
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4. Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
By: Bryce Andrews
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged fro… read more
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5. The Peacock and the Sparrow
By: I.S. Berry
3.81
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more
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"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow
6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
7. 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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- nonfiction
- history
8. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
9. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
10. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
11. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
12. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
By: Carol Leonnig
4.24
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
13. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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- adult
"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
17. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
18. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
19. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. 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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- nonfiction
"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
21. Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
By: Laura Thompson
3.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses , a fascinating look at the… read more
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- adult
- history
22. Trash: A Poor White Journey
By: Cedar Monroe
3.73
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
23. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
24. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- history
- nature
25. The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
By: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie
4.36
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"Propulsive and complex, this is a gorgeously written debut." —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) In T… read more
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26. The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
By: Rebecca Clarren
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe An award-winning author … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman
By: Dylan Tomine
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Christmas Island. The Russian Arctic. Argentine Patagonia. Japan. Cuba. British Columbia. Dylan … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
28. Sun House
By: David James Duncan
3.86
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent … read more
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29. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
By: Jim Sciutto
4.10
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Are we losing a war few of us realize we’re fighting? Jim Sciutto, CNN’s Chief National Security … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains
By: Graham Zimmerman
4.07
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
" A Fine Line reveals the realities of climbing and highlights an intentional approach to reaching … read more
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- nature
31. True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
4.18
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
“ True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique." —HAMPTON SIDES, New York Tim… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- adult
- nature
