Genre search:General Nonfiction

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2004
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Digital audiobook, 2020
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain
Paperback, 2013
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The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Digital audiobook, 2018-10-16
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The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Hardcover, 2019-01-03
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A Promised Land

by Barack Obama
Digital audiobook, 2020
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A Promised Land

by Barack Obama Auteur
Hardcover, 2020
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Becoming

by Michelle Obama
Digital audiobook, 2018-11-13
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Becoming

by Michelle Obama
Hardcover, 2018
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 1997
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2015
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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Paperback, 2017-09-05
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
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Kollaps

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2005
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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Paperback, 2016
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The World is Flat

by Thomas Friedman
Paperback, 2007
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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez
Paperback, 2020
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe
Digital audiobook, 2019
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe
Paperback, 2019
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1776: America and Britain at War

by David McCullough
Paperback, 2006
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Fire and Fury

by Michael Wolff
Paperback, 2019
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder
Paperback, 2017
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2011
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

by John Carreyrou
Paperback, 2019
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At Home

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2011
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The Audacity of Hope

by Barack Obama
Paperback, 2008
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Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah
Paperback, 2017
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We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Digital audiobook, 2017-01-12
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We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paperback, 2015
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Paperback, 2006
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1999
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
Paperback, 2015
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
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Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Paperback, 2011
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Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker
Paperback, 2018
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John Adams

by David McCullough
Paperback, 2002
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold
Paperback, 2020
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold
Digital audiobook, 2019
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A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang To Black Holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1999
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
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Women & Power: A Manifesto

by Mary Beard
Hardcover, 2017
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Das geheime Leben der Bäume

by Peter Wohlleben
Hardcover, 2016-10-24
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

by Peter Wohlleben
Paperback, 2017
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The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Paperback, 2017
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis
Paperback, 2011
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Fascism: A Warning

by Madeleine Albright
Paperback, 2018
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

by Steve Brusatte
Digital audiobook, 2018-04-24
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