Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming
By: Howard Means
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded…
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1. The Greatest Salesman in the World
By: Og Mandino
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Greatest Salesman in the World is a book that serves as a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship… read more
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2. Player Piano
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more
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3. Micro
By: Michael Crichton , Richard Preston
3.43
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured… read more
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4. Find a Way
By: Diana Nyad
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
On September 2, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key West after… read more
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6. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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7. Hotel Iris
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pooland The Housekeeper and the Profes… read more
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8. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
9. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
By: Steve Magness
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness co… read more
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10. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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11. Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
By: Marie Kondō
3.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her inspirational visual guide to elevatin… read more
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"It's hard to change someone else. But we can change ourselves."-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
"The true purpose of tidying is not to cut down on your possessions or declutter your space. The ultimate goal is to spark joy every day and lead a joyful life."-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
"Ultimately, I think the purpose of life is to be happy and fulfilled. I don't mean this in a selfish 'me first' way. When we exude an aura of happiniess, this positive energy spreads to those around …"-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
12. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
By: Steven Kotler
4.22
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,… read more
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"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intr…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibil…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, th…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
13. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
15. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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16. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
By: Nick Pyenson
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more
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"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
17. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
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18. Limitless: From Dingle to Cape Horn, Finding my True North in the Earth’s Vastest Oceans
By: Nuala Moore
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The sea has always been a part of Nuala Moore’s her earliest memory is of jumping off her father’s… read more
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19. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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20. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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21. Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming
By: Howard Means
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded… read more
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