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1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
By: Bill Bryson
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It’s a bit burned,"-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."-Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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- nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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- nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
4. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
By: Piers Paul Read
4.13
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-p… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense co…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
"The closeness of the relationship between Fito Strauch, Eduardo Strauch and Daniel Fernandez gave them an immediate advantage over all the other in withstanding not the physical but the mental suffer…"-Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
5. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
6. Life Itself
By: Roger Ebert
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
7. In Sunlight or In Shadow
By: Stephen King , Joyce Carol Oates , Lawrence Block , Lee Child , Jeffery Deaver , Michael Connelly , Megan Abbott , Joe R. Lansdale , Justin Scott , Robert Olen Butler , Kris Nelscott , Nicholas Christopher , Jill D. Block , Jonathan Santlofer , None , Warren Moore , Craig Ferguson , Gail Levin
2.89
Format: None pages,
"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- sports
- cycling
- audiobook
9. Walking the Nile
By: Levison Wood
3.87
Format: 144 pages, ebook
A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walki… read more
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10. It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
By: Robert Penn
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,… read more
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11. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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12. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.17
Format: 319 pages,
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more
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13. Old Man on a Bicycle: A Ride Across America and How to Realize a More Enjoyable Old Age
By: None
3.68
Format: 200 pages,
The Adventure of A Solo Cross-America Bicycle Ride-- With Advice on How To Soften The Physical Real… read more
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14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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15. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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16. Learning to Walk in the Dark
By: Barbara Brown Taylor
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more
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17. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
18. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- audiobook
19. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
By: Anthony Bourdain
3.64
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, televisi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class ch…"-Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
20. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
21. Companion Piece
By: Ali Smith
3.82
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more
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- audiobook
22. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
23. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
24. Beyond Impossible: From Reluctant Runner to Guinness World Record Breaker
By: Mimi Anderson
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
When Mimi first started jogging on a treadmill as an unfit 36-year-old mother-of-three, she never i… read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
- biography
- audiobook
25. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
By: Laurie Woolever
4.21
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
By: Eric Jay Dolin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Through Sand & Snow: a man, a bicycle, and a 43,000-mile journey to adulthood via the ends of the Earth
By: Charlie Walker
4.48
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged twenty-two, Charlie Walker left home in search of adventure. Fleeing the boredom that comes wi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- cycling
"I was a young man wanting to slay dragons, but I'd grown up swaddled and in a post-dragon world."-Charlie Walker, Through Sand & Snow: a man, a bicycle, and a 43,000-mile journey to adulthood via the ends of the Earth
28. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- sports
- cycling
- audiobook
29. The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
By: Sara Ackerman
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark … read more
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- audiobook
30. Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
By: Joel Selvin
4.27
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
