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The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin

How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The famous story of a Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Second World War

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American Lion

Jon Meacham

Andrew Jackson in the White House

25

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She Said

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement

33

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The Volunteer

Jack Fairweather

One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

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Bedtime Biography: Notorious RBG

Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Bedtime Biography: Yes I Can

Sammy Davis

The Story of Sammy Davis Jr.

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Bedtime Biography: Florence Nightingale

Cecil Woodham Smith

1820-1910

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4.8

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Melania

Melania Trump

A Memoir

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Freedom

Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann

Memories 1954 – 2021

32

4.5

From Here to the Great Unknown

Lisa Marie Presley

A Memoir

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Lincoln vs. Davis

Nigel Hamilton

The War of the Presidents

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Sonny Boy

Al Pacino

A Memoir

21

4.3

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Michael J. Gelb

Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

19

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Trump: The Art of the Deal

Donald J. Trump

The Art of the Deal

17

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Lucky Loser

Russ Buettner

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

21

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Living Resistance

Kaitlin B. Curtice

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

19

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The Demon of Unrest

Erik Larson

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

21

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Showing Up for Life

Bill Gates

Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

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Confronting the Presidents

Bill O'Reilly

No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

17

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At War with Ourselves

H. R. McMaster

My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

19

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The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides

The Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

21

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Always Looking Up

Michael J. Fox

The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

17

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

A Tale of Desire and Despair in the Search for Fulfillment

20

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There's Always This Year

Hanif Abdurraqib

On Basketball and Ascension

17

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Extremely Hardcore

Zoë Schiffer

Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

19

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The Whole Story

John Mackey

Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism

17

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On Call

Anthony Fauci

A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

22

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The Situation Room

George Stephanopoulos

The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

20

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Innocence Lost, Strength Found

15

3.7

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Venture Into a Classic Tale of Resilience and Growth

19

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Knife

Salman Rushdie

Meditations After an Attempted Murder

16

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Get It Together

Jesse Watters

Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe

15

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Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

20

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The Zone of Interest

Martin Amis

A Novel

22

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

A Journey into Artistic Awakening

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