A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
By: Perri Klass
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only …
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
By: Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry
4.35
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
Similar categories in James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me book and Perri Klass's A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
- historical
- nonfiction
- history
4. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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5. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"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
6. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- nonfiction
- science
7. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- historical
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- nonfiction
- science
8. World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
By: Sanjay Gupta
4.05
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our b… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
9. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- health
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- nonfiction
- science
10. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
By: Jay Wellons
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more
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- audiobook
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
11. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By: Priya Fielding-Singh
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- health
12. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
13. Laziness Does Not Exist
By: Devon Price
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more
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- nonfiction
- health
"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist
14. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
15. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
16. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
17. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more
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- health care
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
18. The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
By: Charles Kenny
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with i… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- historical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"As long as we remain a planet of 7-plus billion, close-packed and widely traveled, with a love for meat, eggs, and milk, infections will be a force in our lives."-Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
"Trade and collaboration, the transfer of goods, people and ideas, are central to supporting health systems as well as developing and rolling out tests, treatments, and cures. We cannot respond effect…"-Charles Kenny, The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
19. The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By: Yang Jisheng
4.01
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, i… read more
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- historical
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- history
- audiobook
"It was the fundamental appraisal that the world had transitioned from the 'age of war and revolution' to the 'age of peace and development' that allowed China to make a fresh start on its domestic an…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"In China under the power market economic system, the ability to succeed in anything depends on relationships with key power-holders. The process of selling official positions and titles has formed a …"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"On February 28, 1972, the Sino-U.S. Shanghai Communiqué was issued. It said, 'The United States believes that the effort to reduce tensions is served by improving communication between countries that…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
"Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi approved an infantile demand by the Red Guards that traffic police replace their batons with Quotations of Chairman Mao, claiming that only Mao Zedong Thought co…"-Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
20. Wonder Drug
By: Stephen Trzeciak
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A pair of doctors team up to illuminate, through neuroscience and captivating stories from their cl… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
- health
21. A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
By: Perri Klass
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only … read more
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- medicine
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