12 must-read nonfiction books like The Moab Story: From Cowpokes to Bike Spokes by Tom McCourt

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The Moab Story: From Cowpokes to Bike Spokes

By: Tom McCourt

3.67

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The town of Moab is a fascinating place with a fascinating history―there is no place like it. Autho…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Moab Story: From Cowpokes to Bike Spokes by Tom McCourt , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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2. Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.16

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enth… read more

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"History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment. ~Barnabas Sackett~"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen."

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I cannont believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I…"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

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3. The Indigo Girl

By: Natasha Boyd

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An incredible story of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice. The yea… read more

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4. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

By: Craig Childs

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native pe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

By: Rinker Buck

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's "The Oregon Trail" is a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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7. The Secret Knowledge of Water

By: Craig Childs

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Features: Specifications: Pages: 304 ISBN-13: Publisher: Back Bay Books Cover: Paperback read more

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  • nonfiction

8. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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9. Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

By: Lesley Poling-Kempes

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ladies of the Canyonsis the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of ge… read more

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10. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

By: Anonymous , Joseph Smith Jr.

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealin… read more

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11. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By: Sheri Fink

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstruc… read more

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12. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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13. The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

By: Claudia Gray

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney re… read more

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"...she said to Brandon, "If I am found out in Scotland - or if George and I decide Edinburgh is not to our taste - we might always set out for the United States of America." "You need not stoop to ba…"

-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

"...Willoughby had sequestered himself in his room. Jonathan half wondered if he had pushed heavy furniture against the door to keep himself safe, then realized this could not be so. That would keep o…"

-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)

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14. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

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15. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman

3.69

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond by Stacy T. Sims

16. Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond

By: Stacy T. Sims

4.27

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive, physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experie… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.19

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after retur… read more

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"After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

"[Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water." "Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale . . . or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answer…"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

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18. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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19. The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey

By: Charles Bowden

4.06

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Moab Story: From Cowpokes to Bike Spokes

By: Tom McCourt

3.67

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The town of Moab is a fascinating place with a fascinating history―there is no place like it. Autho… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.50

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