Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
By: Nick Neely
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
By: Mark Bowden
4.15
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming."-Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
2. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By: David Nasaw
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly releas… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
3. The Jesus I Never Knew
By: Philip Yancey
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Philip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered up What happens when a respec… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Red Notebook
By: Antoine Laurain , Emily Boyce , Jane Aitken
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's… read more
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5. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
By: Tony Horwitz
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of Ameri… read more
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6. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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7. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
8. Fever House (Fever House, #1)
By: Keith Rosson
4.03
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more
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9. 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
- adventure
10. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
By: Conor Knighton
4.26
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
12. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
By: Bob Drury
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
13. Music Is History
By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
14. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- unfinished
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
15. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Andrea Pitzer
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in m… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
16. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
By: Naomi Hirahara
3.63
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more
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17. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds … read more
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- american history
- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
18. Damnation Spring
By: Ash Davidson
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will… read more
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- nature
19. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
By: Neil King Jr.
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more
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- american history
- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- walking
- nature
20. The Curse of Pietro Houdini
By: Derek B. Miller
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more
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"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini
21. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe
By: Dean Nicholson
4.38
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Discover the nationally bestselling, true story of a life-changing friendship between a man and his… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adventure
23. War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
By: Jeff Guinn
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charl… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
24. Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
By: Cheryl Diamond
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a family built on lies. What if the people you love most are not who … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I've noticed people often complain about the monotony of life. How sometimes very day is just like the last and they all blend together. Do they know how lucky they are? But maybe that's the problem …"-Cheryl Diamond, Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
25. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
By: Will Grant
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more
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- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
26. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- nature
27. California's Channel Islands
By: Chiles
3.94
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalist… read more
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- history
28. Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By: Justin Farrell
3.69
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
"This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or…"-Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
29. Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East
By: Daniel Levin
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting . . . Well-written and highly compelling. "— Wall Street Journal “Truly thrilling. Dani… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
30. Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
By: Nick Neely
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Neely’s naturalist, erudite work will appeal to readers of Thoreau’s Walden and… read more
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- american history
- history
- memoir
- unfinished
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- walking
- travelogue
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31. Brothers
By: Alex Van Halen
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van H… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
