My Top 10 Favorite Nonfiction Books
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It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!
- ASIN: 0578448831
- ISBN: 0578448831
- Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie
"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you."Dan Brown, Author of ReunionIt's 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet li... [Read More]
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel
- ASIN: 1250153964
- ISBN: 9781250153968
- Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy know... [Read More]
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
- UPC: 046442773478
- ASIN: 0618773479
- ISBN: 0618773479
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the ris... [Read More]
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We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel
- ASIN: 0399563091
- ISBN: 0399563091
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour It is t... [Read More]
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501173219
- ISBN: 1501173219
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths ... [Read More]
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Sold on a Monday: A Novel
- UPC: 760789270895
- ASIN: 1492663999
- ISBN: 1492663999
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLERA NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER An unforgettable novel by Kristina McMorris, inspired by a stunning piece of history. 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, ... [Read More]
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
- ASIN: 1476794057
- ISBN: 1476794057
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door.The story o... [Read More]
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
- UPC: 783324820270
- ASIN: 0451224957
- ISBN: 0451224957
- Brand: Nal Caliber
- Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber
The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants riske... [Read More]
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Ordinary Grace
- UPC: 884740901625
- ASIN: 1451645856
- ISBN: 1451645856
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary... [Read More]
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The Hideaway
- ASIN: 0718084225
- ISBN: 0718084225
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&... [Read More]
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Fucking History: 52 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School.
- ASIN: 0692795367
- ISBN: 0692795367
- Manufacturer: Rum Tongue Media Inc.
If you disliked learning about history in school, it's because you didn't have a teacher like this. Intelligent, brutally honest, and crude — learning about history doesn't suck when you're learning from The Captain. Each of his 52 lessons bridges the gap between history and everyday life with relatable topics and an outlook that can only be desc... [Read More]
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Spilled Milk: Based on a true story
- ASIN: 0615835600
- ISBN: 0615835600
- Manufacturer: K.L Randis
"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record Newspaper"I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down.... [Read More]
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
- ASIN: 1455540013
- ISBN: 1455540013
- Brand: Grand Central Publishing
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- ASIN: 1101912375
- ISBN: 1101912375
- Brand: VINTAGE
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
- ASIN: 1503943372
- ISBN: 1503943372
- Brand: Lake Union Publishing
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do wi... [Read More]
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The Price of Time
- ASIN: 179773816X
- ISBN: 179773816X
- Manufacturer: Independently published
Would your character change ...if you had all the money in the world?And all the time?Would you become a better person?Or worse?Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller._______________________________________There's a secret in Silicon Valley. A discovery. An invention. Oneso startling and surpr... [Read More]
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)
- ASIN: 1452140030
- ISBN: 1452140030
- Brand: Chronicle
- Size: N/A
- Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent... [Read More]
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Then She Was Gone: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501154656
- ISBN: 1501154656
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are ... [Read More]
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- ASIN: 0679763880
- ISBN: 9780679763888
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNE... [Read More]
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Presidents of War
- ASIN: 0307409600
- ISBN: 9780307409607
- Brand: Crown
- Manufacturer: Crown
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]
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