Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
By: Paul Alexander
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first …
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1. Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3)
By: Nevada Barr
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more than photos--they're also carrying a st… read more
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2. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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- music
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- biography
- jazz
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
By: Michelle Horton
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- audiobook
9. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
By: Daniel de Visé
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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12. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
14. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
By: Geezer Butler
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
15. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Hip-Hop Is History
By: Questlove
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
By: Judith Tick
3.75
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovat… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- jazz
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. What You Leave Behind
By: Wanda M. Morris
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more
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19. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
20. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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21. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
By: Sarah Gerard
3.44
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Madoff: The Final Word
By: Richard Behar
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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25. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
By: Josh Levin
3.70
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie abou… read more
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- race
- history
- biography
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- audiobook
26. The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
By: John Long
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
World-leading paleontologist John Long presents the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as… read more
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- history
27. Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
By: Paul Alexander
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first … read more
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- race
- history
- biography
- jazz
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
By: Joe Conason
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton
By: Deb Miller Landau
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sul… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
30. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By: Rebecca Nagle
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- audiobook
31. Sonny Boy: A Memoir
By: Al Pacino
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
