The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
By: Brian Hochman
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how―and why. Wiretapping i…
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1. Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
By: Héctor Tobar
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When the San Jos mine collapsed outside of Copiap, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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- crime
"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- american history
- crime
- history
- nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
4. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- technology
5. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
6. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
7. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
8. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
9. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 888 pages, Hardcover
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
10. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
11. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- science
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
12. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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- american history
- crime
- history
- nonfiction
13. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- technology
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
14. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
15. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- american history
- crime
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
By: Paul Newman
3.89
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more
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- history
17. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
By: Andrew Scull
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once calle… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
18. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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- history
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
20. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
By: Barbara Rae-Venter
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- science
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
21. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
22. Riverman: An American Odyssey
By: Ben McGrath
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years… read more
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- nonfiction
"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey
23. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- history
- science
24. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
25. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
26. Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
By: Kathy Kleiman
4.07
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
An untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world's first modern… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- technology
27. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
By: T.J. English
4.12
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scint… read more
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- american history
- crime
- history
- nonfiction
28. Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
By: Maya Phillips
3.51
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, inc… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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30. The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
By: Brian Hochman
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how―and why. Wiretapping i… read more
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- science
- history
- law
- nonfiction
- crime
- technology
31. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.62
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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- history
