Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
By: Edward McClelland
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 Midland Authors Book Award in History In a time of great inequality and a gut…
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1. A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell, #5)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beaucl… read more
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"For my part, I ignored her jibes, as I had long ago formed the opinion that it is best never to notice children at all in any capacity lest they take a simple greeting as an overture for discussion -…"-Deanna Raybourn, A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell, #5)
2. An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.09
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell g… read more
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"Within a month the ring was gone, pawned to pay a debt, and I realized what I had done. I had shackled myself to a man who could not be trusted, upon whom I could never truly depend. Too late, I unde…"-Deanna Raybourn, An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)
3. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
4. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
5. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
6. A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi enco… read more
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7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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8. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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9. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.20
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more
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10. The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is te… read more
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"Never try to reach a conclusion before you reach the conclusion."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"We have always asked too much of women in this country. They hold up the sky on their shoulders."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
11. To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.94
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe t… read more
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"No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not.…"-Alexander McCall Smith, To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)
12. The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #19)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.16
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, P… read more
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13. Cookies and Clairvoyance (A Magical Bakery Mystery, #8)
By: Bailey Cates
4.11
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Baker Katie Lightfoot serves up enchanted delicacies and tracks down a malicious murderer in the ne… read more
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14. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds … read more
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15. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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16. Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
By: Max Allan Collins
3.86
Format: 752 pages, ebook
At last, the definitive history of Al Capone, Eliot Ness's Untouchables, and gangster-era Chicago –… read more
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17. The Puzzle Master
By: Danielle Trussoni
3.32
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more
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"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master
18. The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
By: Sonali Dev
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist from award-winning author Sonali Dev in her heartwarmingly … read more
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"Are you saying you want me to be more than an inflatable doll?" She pressed into him. "I mean there are parts of you that are alarmingly easy to inflate."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"It's stunning how little respect you have for me, Naina." What more did he have to do to prove himself? She kept typing. "What am I supposed to respect exactly?"-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"You know you can't do this without me," Jiggy said on the phone, after. "We'll figure it out. We rich kids do take our need to run around and save the world seriously."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
"Delicious, Auntie! How do you make cucumber taste like this?" Paper-thin slices of cucumber, delicately spiced Greek yogurt spread, and pillowy whole-grain bread. This was the life."-Sonali Dev, The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4)
19. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
By: Candacy A. Taylor
4.23
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide… read more
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20. Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
By: Edward McClelland
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 Midland Authors Book Award in History In a time of great inequality and a gut… read more
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21. Lost Flint
By: Gary Flinn
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the author of Remembering Flint and Hidden History of Flint come unearthed tales of Vehicle Ci… read more
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