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Author Name: Garrett M. Graff.
About Author: Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished magazine journalist, bestselling historian, and regular TV commentator, has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security—helping to explain where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Today,...
About The Book: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to-date account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II—featuring hundreds of eyewitness accounts.
Ratings:4.7Author Name: Ransom Riggs.
About Author: Ransom Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in Florida, but now makes his home in the land of peculiar children: Southern California, where he lives with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi. Ransom was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and...
About The Book: The instant New York Times bestseller from visionary storyteller Ransom Riggs! Weaving the familiar with the peculiar, this stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship and magic, will remind readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born—and when you’re never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself.
Ratings:4.4Author Name: Patrick Winn.
About Author: Patrick Winn is an investigative journalist who covers rebellion and black markets in Southeast Asia. He is the author of two books: Hello Shadowlands and Narcotopia. Winn enters the worlds of guerrillas and drug traffickers to mine stories that otherwise go...
About The Book: The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.
Ratings:4.5Author Name: Jamil Zaki.
About Author: Cynicism is making us sick, but Stanford Psychologist Dr. Jamil Zaki has the cure—a “ray of light for dark days” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
About The Book: I'm a professor of psychology at Stanford University, where I direct the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. For the last fifteen years, I've been obsessed with a few questions: how do people connect with each other, how do those connections help us,...
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Author Name:Cj Wray
About Author:CJ Wray is the pseudonym of Christine Manby, a Sunday Times bestselling author with more than forty books to her name. Raised in the west of England, she studied psychology before embarking on an entertaining and wide-ranging career that has seen her selling...
About The Book: "Irresistible...Filled with surprise, poignancy, and excitement, this is a surefire winner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A brilliant and witty drama about two brave female World War II veterans who survived the unthinkable without ever losing their killer instinct…or their joie de vivre.
Ratings:4.4Author Name:Antonia Hylton
About Author:Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. She is also the cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine. From 2016 to 2020, Antonia was a Correspondent and Producer for Vice Media and HBO’s...
About The Book: In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation’s last segregated asylums..." a book that left me breathless" (Clint Smith).
Ratings: 4.6Author Name:Emily Nussbaum
About Author:Emily Nussbaum is the television critic for The New Yorker. In 2016, she won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She previously worked as a writer and editor at New York Magazine, where she created the notorious charticle The Approval Matrix. She's also...
About The Book: The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer—“a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture” (NPR) “Passionate, exquisitely told . . . With muscular prose and an exacting eye for detail . . . [Nussbaum] knits her talents for sharp analysis and telling reportage well.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) In development as a docuseries from the studio behind Spencer and Spotlight ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Ratings: 4.1Author Name:Ali Novak.
About Author: Born and raised in Wisconsin, Ali Novak is an awarding-winning author of contemporary young adult novels. She started writing her debut book, My Life with the Walter Boys, when she was only fifteen. Since then, her work has received more than 150 million reads...
About The Book: New York Times Bestseller! USA Today Bestseller! The highly anticipated sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys, the internationally bestselling novel that inspired the Netflix series!
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A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
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“The Last Stand 2024”
Recognized for its compelling storytelling, making it a favorite among critics and readers alike.
“Chronicles of the Forgotten 2024”
A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
One of the Year’s Essential Reads by Global Reads Magazine, 2022
“The Last Stand 2024”
Recognized for its compelling storytelling, making it a favorite among critics and readers alike.
“Chronicles of the Forgotten 2024”
A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
One of the Year’s Essential Reads by Global Reads Magazine, 2022
“The Last Stand 2024”
Recognized for its compelling storytelling, making it a favorite among critics and readers alike.
“Chronicles of the Forgotten 2024”
A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
One of the Year’s Essential Reads by Global Reads Magazine, 2022
“The Last Stand 2024”
Recognized for its compelling storytelling, making it a favorite among critics and readers alike.
“Chronicles of the Forgotten 2024”
A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
One of the Year’s Essential Reads by Global Reads Magazine, 2022
“The Last Stand 2024”
Recognized for its compelling storytelling, making it a favorite among critics and readers alike.
“Chronicles of the Forgotten 2024”
A groundbreaking novel named a must-read by leading literary voices.
Special Recognition
One of the Year’s Essential Reads by Global Reads Magazine, 2022