America's First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Crippled a Young Nation
By: Robert Watson
3.43
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective mask…
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1. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
By: Leland Gregory
2.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why exactly is Paul Revere revered? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? * Best-se… read more
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3. The Underground Library
By: Jennifer Ryan
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more
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4. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
5. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Bait and Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #1)
By: Angela M. Sanders
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilit… read more
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9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
10. A Wicked Conceit (Lady Darby Mystery, #9)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Edinburgh, Scotland. March 1832. Kiera and Gage have been eagerly awaiting their bundle of joy but … read more
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11. A Stroke of Malice (Lady Darby Mystery, #8)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Lady Kiera Darby and her husband Sebastian Gage are looking forward to relaxing with new friends at… read more
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12. A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
New parents Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage look forward to introducing Sebastian’s father to h… read more
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13. A Perilous Perspective (Lady Darby Mystery, #10)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.24
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents… read more
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14. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
15. Seven-Year Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #2)
By: Angela M. Sanders
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Finding your feet in a new job isn't always easy. That goes double for Josie Way, who's settling in… read more
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16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
17. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
18. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
19. All We Were Promised
By: Ashton Lattimore
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more
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20. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- nonfiction
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
21. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
22. Witch Upon a Star (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #4)
By: Angela M. Sanders
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Big things are happening in small-town Wilfred, Oregon! The retreat center is open for its first wo… read more
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23. Witch and Famous (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #3)
By: Angela M. Sanders
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in small-town Oregon, the latest in the witty, charming Witch Way Librarian series from bestsel… read more
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24. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
25. 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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- nonfiction
26. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By: Amanda Jones
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Lethal Pursuit (Barker & Llewelyn, #11)
By: Will Thomas
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
London, 1892—Cyrus Barker is brought into a game of international espionage by the Prime Minister h… read more
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28. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
By: Luke A. Nichter
4.07
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics “The book is a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
By: John L. Hopkins
4.28
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout th… read more
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- nonfiction
30. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)
By: Alan Bradley
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more
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31. America's First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Crippled a Young Nation
By: Robert Watson
3.43
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective mask… read more
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