Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
By: Paul A. Offit
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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2. Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
By: Paul A. Offit
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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3. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
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4. The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
By: None
2.75
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Format: 216 pages,
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By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
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By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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3.78
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By: Amanda Ripley
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
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10. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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By: Meghan MacLean Weir
3.91
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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3.62
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15. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
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3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
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By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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17. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
By: Mitch Weiss
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of foll… read more
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18. Uncultured: A Memoir
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
4.08
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
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By: Maggie Smith
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems
20. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
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21. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
4.16
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
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"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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By: Amber Ruffin
4.40
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
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3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
24. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ… read more
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"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
25. Lay Your Body Down
By: Amy Suiter Clarke
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poiso… read more
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26. The Devil and Mrs. Davenport
By: Paulette Kennedy
4.24
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors o… read more
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27. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult
By: Michelle Dowd
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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28. The Bright Side Running Club
By: Josie Lloyd
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a runnin… read more
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29. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
By: Robert B. Reich
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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31. Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection
By: Emma Lovewell
3.69
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