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Bestseller

John Adams

by David McCullough

4.6

David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams, the principled, irascible, and frequently underestimated second president of the United States.

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Bestseller

Magnolia Table

by Joanna Gaines

4.6

From the Fixer Upper star and Magnolia founder, a collection of approachable, comforting family recipes built around the idea that a shared table is the heart of a home.

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Bestseller

Near Dark

by Brad Thor

4.6

Scot Harvath faces his most personal mission — hunted by an enemy who knows his every move, in a race across Europe that becomes a fight for survival against someone who may be his equal.

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Bestseller

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

4.6

Following four generations of a Korean family from Japanese-occupied Korea to Osaka's Korean minority community, Pachinko is an epic about survival, identity, and the persistence of discrimination.

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Bestseller

Plenty More

by Yotam Ottolenghi

4.6

The follow-up to Ottolenghi's game-changing Plenty, featuring more vegetable-focused recipes that combine Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Asian influences with his signature bold flavours.

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Bestseller

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

4.6

From the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the 21st century, Harari traces the full sweep of human history, asking why our species conquered Earth while others failed.

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Bestseller
4.6

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's collection of outrageous, funny, and illuminating adventures — from cracking safes at Los Alamos to learning to draw, playing bongo drums, and embarrassing the censors of the Brazilian physics curriculum.

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Bestseller

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

4.6

A multigenerational saga spanning seventy years of a South Indian Christian family whose members drown in every generation, told against the backdrop of colonial and postcolonial India.

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Bestseller

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

4.6

Arthur Miller's classic drama of the 1692 Salem witch trials, written as an allegory of McCarthy-era persecution. As accusations of witchcraft consume a Puritan village, John Proctor must choose between saving his life and keeping his name in a community gone mad.

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Bestseller

The Defined Dish

by Alex Snodgrass

4.6

A Whole30-endorsed collection of healthy, wholesome weeknight recipes that prove eating well can be genuinely satisfying — gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free comfort food the whole family will eat.

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Bestseller

The Final Empire

by Brandon Sanderson

4.6

In a world where ash falls from the sky and the Dark Lord won a thousand years ago, a young thief with extraordinary magical ability joins a crew planning the most audacious heist in history.

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Bestseller

The Green Mile

by Stephen King

4.6

A death row corrections officer in 1930s Louisiana encounters a gentle giant with miraculous healing powers awaiting execution for a crime he may not have committed.

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Bestseller

The Guns of August

by Barbara Tuchman

4.6

A narrative history of the first month of World War I — August 1914 — tracing how Europe's powers stumbled into catastrophe through a combination of rigid military planning, diplomatic failure, and the momentum of mobilization.

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Bestseller
4.6

The story of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in 1951 and became the most important biological materials in modern medical history — all while her family lived in poverty and ignorance of what had been done.

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Bestseller

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

4.6

Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a giant insect — and the story focuses less on the transformation than on his family's response to it.

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Bestseller

The New Jim Crow

by Michelle Alexander

4.6

Michelle Alexander's landmark argument that mass incarceration is the newest system of racial caste control in America — the functional successor to Jim Crow laws and before them, slavery.

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Bestseller

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah

4.6

Two French sisters take radically different paths through the Nazi occupation of France, one hiding Jews in her home, one becoming a resistance fighter guiding Allied pilots to safety.

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