One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt
By: Marsha Arzberger
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY ACRES OF DIRT: A History of the Pioneers of Kansas Settlement, Arizona Territory,…
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1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France
By: Sarah Lew Miller , None , Joyce Block Lazarus
4.25
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Hiding in Plain Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and … read more
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2. Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By: David Roberts
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrati… read more
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3. Gutenberg's Apprentice
By: Alix Christie
3.51
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling literary debut that evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of… read more
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4. The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
By: None , Judith M. Heimann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off t… read more
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5. The Tumbling Turner Sisters
By: Juliette Fay
3.33
Format: None pages, ebook
For fans of Orphan Trainand Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from "o… read more
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6. City of the Beasts (Eagle and Jaguar, #1)
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime… read more
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7. The Red House Mystery
By: A.A. Milne
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more
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8. Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma
By: Richard Dunlop
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William "Wild B… read more
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9. Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
By: Charles W. Sasser , Norma Cobb
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-y… read more
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10. Boy 30529: A Memoir
By: Felix Weinberg
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Anyone who survived the extermination camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp … read more
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11. The Virtues of Aging
By: Jimmy Carter
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
'As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good, ' writes former President Jimmy Car… read more
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12. The Runaway Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #4)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In the fourth novel of the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Sylvia Compson searches for evidence of… read more
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13. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
By: Emily Monosson
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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16. 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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"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
17. Switchboard Soldiers
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.07
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Orphan's Island (Amherst Island #1)
By: Katharine Swartz
4.42
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
1904: Ellen Copley is still a child when she leaves behind the sooty rail yards of Glasgow, and cro… read more
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19. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality
By: Karen Fine
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more
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20. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
By: Eyal Press
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
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21. Swan Light
By: Phoebe Rowe
4.21
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two … read more
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"There were as many parts of a story as there were people who remembered it."-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light
"It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ..."-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light
"But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under …"-Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light
22. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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23. The Twenty-Ninth Day
By: Alex Messenger
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more
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24. The Scenic Route
By: Christina Baker Kline
4.02
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
Driven by desperation to hit the road, a woman sees her life come into view in a powerful short sto… read more
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"Stillness can’t really exist ... because even when we’re not moving, we’re breathing, and breath is movement."-Christina Baker Kline, The Scenic Route
25. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
By: Jared Diamond
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more
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"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
26. The Banished
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4.27
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27. One's Company
By: Ashley Hutson
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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"People who research anything, who deep-dive anything, understand that solitude is never loneliness when you have your subject. The subject looms before you like a bright city on the horizon, beckonin…"-Ashley Hutson, One's Company
28. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
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3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more
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29. Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green ... children who gave "Death Valley" its name
By: William Lewis Manly
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more
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30. The Longest Campaign: Britain's Maritime Struggle in the Atlantic and Northwest Europe, 1939–1945
By: Brian Walter
4.00
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
For four centuries the British realm depended upon sea power to defend its interest and independenc… read more
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31. One Hundred Sixty Acres of Dirt
By: Marsha Arzberger
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY ACRES OF DIRT: A History of the Pioneers of Kansas Settlement, Arizona Territory,… read more
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