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Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
John Hubner
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Simon Sinek
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Stacey Abrams
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963
Letters From An American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1782
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1929
Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward O. Wilson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevi
Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1881
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Gregory Howard Williams
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Donald T. Phillips
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1865
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Sandra Steingraber
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
John Elder Robison
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya V. Hartman
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation
David A. Price
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
William H. Mcraven
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Laurie Kaye Abraham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Transl. Richard Seaver, Transl. Helen R. Lane, André Breton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Gail Bederman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian Weiss
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
John Gray
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995