Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
By: Mugambi Jouet
4.02
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how…
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1. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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- history
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
2. Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.02
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed… read more
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"I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understan…"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now …"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's und…"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
"She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I …"-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
3. Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.93
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she dis… read more
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"We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel."-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"... but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn't a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"I told myself being a Perez meant more than being Cuban, that my responsibility to my family, to do what was expected, to be the woman my parents wanted me to be meant more than fighting for what I b…"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
4. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
By: Steven J. Ross
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.16
Format: 320 pages,
In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more
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6. Ordinary Grace
By: William Kent Krueger
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a you… read more
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7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
8. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
9. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
10. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By: Nina Totenberg
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal succes… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
12. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
By: Robert Kolker
4.16
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[..] Schizophrenia simply can't be imposed or inflicted on someone who is not genitically predisposed to develope the condition (D. Rosenthal)"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[They] talked a lot about the particular way Mimi hade of silencing Lindsay. She wouldn't say "Shut up." It was more like "You think you've got troubles?" She attacked Lindsay's emotions by undermini…"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[This essential question about schizophrenia - does it run in families or emerge fully formed out of nowhere? - would consume theorists and therapists and biologists and, later, geneticists, for gene…"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
13. The Nature of Fragile Things
By: Susan Meissner
4.26
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring… read more
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"It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn."-Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things
"I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way."-Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things
14. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
By: Evan Osnos
4.24
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
15. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
By: Jonathan M. Katz
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more
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- politics
- economics
- history
- nonfiction
16. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- history
18. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
By: Jamie Raskin
4.51
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
19. Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department
By: Geoffrey Berman
4.24
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my offic… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. Here, Right Matters: An American Story
By: Alexander S. Vindman
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The former National Security Council staffer who testified against President Trump during his impea… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
By: Mugambi Jouet
4.02
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how… read more
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- united states
- economics
- nonfiction
- education
