American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation
By: Adam Morris
3.60
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A history with sweeping implications, Americ…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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3. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
By: Edward J. Blum , Paul Harvey
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of… read more
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4. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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5. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
7. Goddess of Filth
By: V. Castro
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more
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"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
8. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
9. Build Your House Around My Body
By: Violet Kupersmith
3.82
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A century of Vietnam's history and folklore comes to life in this "brilliant, sweeping epic that sw… read more
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"He did not have to have him. He just had to be near him. It was enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"I love her but I don't have to have her. I just have to be near her. And that's enough."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"[She knew that] what she felt for him was not love, it was closer to it than she deserved."-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
"Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years brai…"-Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body
10. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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11. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
12. What Comes After
By: JoAnne Tompkins
3.78
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a my… read more
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"It didn't take long to understand that there was no recipe or equation. Parenting was a river of moment-by-moment decisions, intuitions, a balancing of one's own needs, which did factor in somehow, w…"-JoAnne Tompkins, What Comes After
13. The Return
By: Rachel Harrison
3.38
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more
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"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."-Rachel Harrison, The Return
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"-Rachel Harrison, The Return
"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."-Rachel Harrison, The Return
"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."-Rachel Harrison, The Return
14. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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- audiobook
15. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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16. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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17. Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
By: Ken Layne
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths a… read more
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18. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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19. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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21. American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation
By: Adam Morris
3.60
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A history with sweeping implications, Americ… read more
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