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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Rick Warren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Alicia Garza
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R. K. Narayan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona Hill
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world
John Mark Comer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade, Transl. Willard R. Trask
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Jonathan Kozol
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Peter Singer
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1999
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)
Elizabeth Kolbert
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
John W. Blassingame
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship
Steve Lopez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Speed Of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel García Márquez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1927
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Will Durant
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1926
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change
Annie Leonard
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1962