How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
By: Mike Chase
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. Disclosure
By: Michael Crichton
3.79
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman b… read more
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"Power is neither male or female."-Michael Crichton, Disclosure
"Friendships are nice. So is competence."-Michael Crichton, Disclosure
"Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."-Michael Crichton, Disclosure
"The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you."-Michael Crichton, Disclosure
2. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen
4.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more
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- nonfiction
- humor
- history
- audiobook
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
3. Shakespeare: The World as Stage
By: Bill Bryson
3.81
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series… read more
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- nonfiction
- humor
- history
- audiobook
"Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be--I weep to say it--Elizabeth I."-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"So it needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment—actually all of it, every bit—involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. Shakespeare “never owned a …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at …"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample l…"-Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage
4. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
By: Tori Telfer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack th… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- audiobook
"They caused the greatest disappointment,"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Distanciar-se do crime é natural, mas distancie-se demais e o crime se tornará ilusão."-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"One otherwise-great book on the subject includes a line implying that the “cute girl behind the deli counter slicing our bread"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
5. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
By: Philip Mould
3.75
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates … read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- audiobook
6. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
By: Randall Munroe
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- reference
7. The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
By: Aaron Mahnke
3.94
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, beautifully illustrated collection of stories from the hit podcast Lore - now an onl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"One of the professions that historically delivered bloodletting services was, of all people, the barber. Even today, you can find barber shops that still use the red-and-white striped pole outside. I…"-Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore, #1)
8. How to Survive a Horror Movie
By: Seth Grahame-Smith , Wes Craven
3.71
Format: 498 pages,
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic hill… read more
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9. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
10. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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11. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it… read more
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12. Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
By: Rebecca Romney , None
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of au… read more
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13. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
14. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
15. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
18. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- history
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
19. Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
By: Amy Brady
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
By: Tom Segura
4.01
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"I'm also, depending on who you ask, VERY funny or not at all"-Tom Segura, I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
21. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
22. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
24. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
By: Clarissa Ward
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict rep… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
By: Hannah Pick-Goslar
4.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
26. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
By: Marc Masters
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By: Deborah Blum
3.92
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- history
- politics
- humor
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
By: Valerie Fridland
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Smart and funny--I loved it!" --Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- reference
30. How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender
By: Mike Chase
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Somebody with credentials has combed through a mountain of boring literature, highlighted all the … read more
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- politics
- humor
- law
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- reference
- government
- crime
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