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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 57637
Literature that crosses the line: Cocaine in books 5 cbabe Saturday Saturday 1 193
Positive Obsession: the life and times of Octavia Butler 3 cbabe Dec 11 Dec 11 6 428
Arundhati Roy/Mother Mary Comes to Me 0 cbabe Dec 9 Dec 9 1 351
Reading "The Gales of November." 3 kairos12 Nov 25 Nov 27 9 537
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson 1 bucolic_frolic Nov 26 Nov 26 3 570
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug trafficking and murder in the special forces 3 cbabe Oct 28 Nov 25 6 614
Murderland: crime and bloodlust in the 5 cbabe Nov 14 Nov 14 5 583
Amazon has the Kindle version of 0 rzemanfl Nov 13 Nov 13 2 493
Anybody know of a good book about the real reasons for various wars? 7 raccoon Oct 26 Oct 26 2 723
Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai review - growing up in public 0 cbabe Oct 14 Oct 14 3 505
Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing 0 cbabe Oct 14 Oct 14 3 519
"Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance" by Laura Delano 1 bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1014
10 fall biographies you won't want to miss 2 marmar Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1973
"Rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany," by Wm. L. Shirer, 1960. 3 Timeflyer Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 1020
"The Greening of America" 1970, Charles Reich 3 dwayneb Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 966
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1051
There's a petition to get Robert A. Caro's "The Power Broker" published in its uncut, 1,050,000 word glory. Sign here. 4 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 1105
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 892
Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams 9 cbabe May 2025 Aug 2025 2 1754
Bad Company: private equity and the 0 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 875
A Good Book On Medieval Spain 0 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1021
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 4 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1481
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1153
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice 1 bucolic_frolic May 2025 May 2025 3 1461
Clint Smith, writer: 'It is impossible to understand the US economy without slavery' 5 cbabe May 2025 May 2025 9 1852
"Survive and Resist: the Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics," 2019, by Atchison and Shames. 1 Timeflyer May 2025 May 2025 3 1405
What are some of Sy Montgomery's best books? 0 bif Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 1425
"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," by Norman Ohler, US 2017. 3 Timeflyer Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 1899
Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights 0 cbabe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 1570

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Question for all 2 AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1596
the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood 2 cbabe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 8 1931
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II 5 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1973
Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1550
Stoicism 5 Baron2024 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 2008
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn't afford to fight the virus 1 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1929
'The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York," by D. Blum, 2010. 2 Timeflyer Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1682
They Knew: how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent/Sarah Kendzior 0 cbabe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 1608
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1780
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 2239
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 2024 3 2533
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1647
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 2750
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 1831
If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 2024 Nov 2024 11 2421
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 1988
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 1755
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 2125
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 2642
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 1694
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 1779
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 2483
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 1787
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 2682
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 2145
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 2051
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 2347
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 2495
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 1796
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 2071

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Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 2105
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 2495
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 2507
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 2092
ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 2024 Jul 2024 5 2460
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 1884
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1899
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 2125
Lies and the lying liar who told them: A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing 'foreign baddies' 3 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 2438
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 2050
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 2040
If You Have a Blog... 5 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jun 2024 5 4244
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 2640
as its memorial day, i'd like to recommend an old WW1 book. 'and they said we wouldn't fight', by floyd gibbons. 2 pansypoo53219 May 2024 May 2024 2 2013
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 2033
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 2 2003
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 2024 May 2024 0 2020
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 2343
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 1 2238
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 2375
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