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Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

MY Effin' LIFE
Geddy Lee With Daniel Richler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Dissolving Illusions
Suzanne Humphries

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Peter Barry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Capitalism
Sven Beckert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Cultures and Organizations
Geert Hofstede

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Eight Men Out
Eliot Asinof

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1963

Experiencing the Lifespan
Janet Belsky

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Fault Lines
Meena Alexander

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Generations
William Strauss, Neil Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Genome
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Lost in Translation
Eva Hoffman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Reassembling the Social
Bruno Latour

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Some Reflections Upon Marriage
Mary Astell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1700

Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1693

Surrender
Bono

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Crazy Love
Francis Chan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Images of Organization
Gareth Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Study of Language
George Yule

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Art of the Start
Guy Kawasaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

On Competition
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Common Good
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Vera (mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Building A Storybrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto
Es'kia Mphahlele, zekiel Mphahlele

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times
Gregory Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
W. E. B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
Stephanie Coontz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Robert Maurer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Holocaust by Bullets
Patrick Desbois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The House of Gucci
Sara Gay Forden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

The Rule of Saint Benedict
Benedict of Nursia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 529

Sam Houston and the American Southwest
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Start Something That Matters
Blake Mycoskie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Take The Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success
Rory Vaden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1849

The Years
Annie Ernaux

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

59 Seconds: Think A Little, Change A Lot
Richard Wiseman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Adam Rutherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System
Leiyu Shi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
Peter Block

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents
Mark Sakamoto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Managing the Professional Service Firm
David H. Maister

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex
Aubrey Marcus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Clay Cane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Mind of the Strategist: The Mind of the Strategist
Kenichi Ohmae

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How to Think Like One
David Sklansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Linda Villarosa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Frank Luntz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A People's Tragedy
Orlando Figes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscious of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
Fred Kofman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Don't Waste Your Life
John Piper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Kate Manne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
Priscilla Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

How Google Works
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Inside Out
Demi Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Kotler On Marketing
Philip Kotler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Leadership Is an Art
Max De Pree

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Conor Knighton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Thomas Schelling

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Principle-Centered Leadership
Stephen R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema
Andrei Tarkovsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Todd Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The End of Nature
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Peter Frankopan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource
Jeffrey Gitomer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Upside Of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Dan Ariely

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Towards a Poor Theatre
Jerzy Grotowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Olivia Campbell

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

You Can Negotiate Anything: The World's Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want
Herb Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Muhammad Yunus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
Matthew Syed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
Rosanna Xia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Paul Ekman

Nonfiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Get The Guy: How to Find, Attract, and Keep Your Ideal Mate
Matthew Hussey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

He Leadeth Me
Walter J. Ciszek, Daniel L. Flaherty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
Douglas W. Hubbard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985