DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
By: Bryan Sykes
3.53
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America…
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1. Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
By: Rafael Sabatini , Gary Hoppenstand
4.10
Format: 359 pages, Mass Market Paperback
“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he … read more
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"With you it is always the law, never equity."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- genetics
- anthropology
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. Shane
By: Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor
3.94
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the su… read more
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"What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts."-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who …"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"With us he spoke freely enough. We were, in some subtle way, his folks. Though we had taken him in, you had the feeling that he had adopted us. But with others he was reserved; courteous and soft-spo…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
"I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beaut…"-Jack Schaefer, Shane
4. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
5. Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
By: Lee H. Whittlesey
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist th… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
6. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
By: David Eagleman
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain's … read more
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7. The Tao of Pooh
By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I think, therefore I am... confused."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
8. DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America
By: Bryan Sykes
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Evenow turns his sights on the United States, one… read more
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9. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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10. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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11. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more
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12. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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13. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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14. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
By: John Temple
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the Edgar(r) Award in Best Fact Crime. Nominee for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of t… read more
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15. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
By: Sharon Moalem , None
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a dea… read more
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16. Titus Andronicus
By: William Shakespeare
3.68
Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more
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"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
17. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.05
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've a… read more
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- audiobook
"Names have power. Names define things"-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"I'm not your door, but I might be my own."-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"Being a fat child meant knowing how to be own best advocate"-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
"I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own."-Seanan McGuire, Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children, #7)
18. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.32
Format: 208 pages, ebook
A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more
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- audiobook
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
19. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
21. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
22. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
24. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
By: Sebastian Junger
4.02
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at pos… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
- audiobook
"Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men"."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others"-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
25. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
26. A Colony in a Nation
By: Christopher L. Hayes
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end."-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion."-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"Part of the genius of the rhetoric of law and order is that as a principle (rather than a practice), it can be sold as the ultimate call for equality: We all deserve the law. We all deserve order. Al…"-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
"In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only a concern with order. In the Nation, you have rights; in the Colony, you have commands. In the Nation, you are innocent until proven guilty; …"-Christopher L. Hayes, A Colony in a Nation
27. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
28. Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
By: Whitney Goodman LMFT
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful guide to owning our emotions--even the difficult ones--in order to show up authentically… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We have to remember that most major social justice movements in history began with a complaint."-Whitney Goodman LMFT, Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
"Seriously, eat the cookie. Watch the movie. Read the book. Not everything you do has to be about improving your health, knowledge, your job, or your body. it's OK to just be."-Whitney Goodman LMFT, Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
"Not everything you do has to be about improving your health, your knowledge, your job, or your body. It's OK to just be. There's no finish line or trophy for being the most improved."-Whitney Goodman LMFT, Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
29. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)
By: Nathan W. Pyle
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more
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"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)
30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
31. Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell: How To Spot And Stop The Hiccups In Our Thinking Process (Decision Making Mastery)
By: Thinknetic
3.64
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you aware of how your internal biases may be affecting your outer reality?We’re all biased. Yo… read more
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