The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts (Awesome Books)
By: Becca Anderson
3.65
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
"This book is an antidote to the erasure of women from our history.”― Vicki Leon , author of Uppit…
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1. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.85
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard … read more
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- nonfiction
"Self consciousness is the enemy of interestingness"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!!"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sente…"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
2. Counting by 7s
By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
4.14
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, … read more
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"books=comfort"-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
"[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence."-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them."-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
"What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens."-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
3. In the Midst of Winter
By: Isabel Allende
3.72
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende r… read more
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- historical
"El amor siempre se me ha dado a medias"-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter
"Lo tuyo, niña, no es una enfermedad del cuerpo, sino del alma"-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter
"Lo más temible de la muerte era la idea de la eternidad. Muerto para siempre, qué horror"-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter
"El corazón no se rompe como un huevo. Y si fuera un huevo, ¿no es mejor romperlo para que se demarren los sentimientos? Es el precio por una vida bien vivida."-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter
4. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Messenger (The Giver, #3)
By: Lois Lowry
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Messengeris the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestsell… read more
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6. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader
By: Chi-Young Kim , Haemin Sunim , Youngcheol Lee
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in ou… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes...One T… read more
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9. Words in Deep Blue
By: Cath Crowley
3.71
Format: 412 pages,
Love lives between the lines. Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she move… read more
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10. Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)
By: Brandon Mull
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fable… read more
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11. Because I Was A Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages
By: Melissa de la Cruz , Libba Bray , Victoria Aveyard , Margaret Stohl , Elizabeth Acevedo , Zareen Jaffery , Quvenzhane Wallis , None , None
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Whether they're young or old, household names or behind-the-scenes players, so many women have incr… read more
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12. The Polygamist's Daughter
By: Leslie Wilson , Anna LeBaron
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
"My father had more than fifty children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter o… read more
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13. The Lucky One
By: Nicholas Sparks
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt… read more
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14. The War Against Women
By: Marilyn French
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analy… read more
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15. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
By: Elena Favilli , Francesca Cavallo
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the l… read more
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16. You're Welcome, Universe
By: Whitney Gardner
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for t… read more
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17. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
By: Malala Yousafzai , Christina Lamb
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. Wh… read more
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18. The Librarian of Auschwitz
By: None , None
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of… read more
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19. Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
By: Rachel Ignotofsky
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Women in Sports highlights notable women's contributions to competitive athletics to inspire reader… read more
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20. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
By: Lena Andrews
4.00
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more
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- history
- historical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
21. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
23. Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World
By: Jennie Allen
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creati… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Woman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more
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- historical
"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
25. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
26. Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots
By: Reba McEntire
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-dri… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
27. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
28. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
By: Nadia Murad
4.47
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
29. Survival of the Thickest: Essays
By: Michelle Buteau
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and una… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
30. Finding Grace
By: Maren Cooper
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Charles Booker is thrilled to start married life in Two Harbors, Minnesota, with his ambitious orni… read more
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31. The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts (Awesome Books)
By: Becca Anderson
3.65
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
"This book is an antidote to the erasure of women from our history.”― Vicki Leon , author of Uppit… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
