أمريكي

تتكشف التجربة الأمريكية من خلال أصوات تتساءل وتحتفي وتتصارع مع مُثُل الأمة ومؤسساتها وهويتها المتغيرة باستمرار. تلتقط هذه الأعمال المسار الواسع للتاريخ الأمريكي والقصص الحميمة لشعبه على حد سواء، من البيانات السياسية والتعليقات الثقافية إلى المقالات الشخصية والحكايات المحلية.

أمريكي ملخصات الكتب

Red Nation Rising

بقلم Nick Estes • 2021

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

4.38

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

Red Nation Rising

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

بقلم Nick Estes 2021 176 صفحة

4.38

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

Vineland

بقلم Thomas Pynchon • 1990

A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.

3.75

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🤣 Postmodern Satire 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 📹 Surveillance State 📺 Media Satire ✌️ Counterculture Aftermath

Vineland

A hippie's welfare window jump hooks a fed and his daughter's hunt for her vanished mother.

بقلم Thomas Pynchon 1990 480 صفحة

3.75

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🤣 Postmodern Satire 🕵️ Government Conspiracy 📹 Surveillance State 📺 Media Satire ✌️ Counterculture Aftermath

Hauptmann's Ladder

بقلم Richard T. Cahill Jr. • 2014

The Lindbergh case retried: a ladder, a money trail, and doubts the execution never settled.

4.17

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🕰️ Historical True Crime ⭐ Celebrity Crime 🔬 Forensic Evidence 🏛️ Trial Analysis ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Hauptmann's Ladder

The Lindbergh case retried: a ladder, a money trail, and doubts the execution never settled.

بقلم Richard T. Cahill Jr. 2014 416 صفحة

4.17

١٢٥ تقييم

🕰️ Historical True Crime ⭐ Celebrity Crime 🔬 Forensic Evidence 🏛️ Trial Analysis ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

بقلم Jen Lancaster • 2020

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

3.37

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🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

بقلم Jen Lancaster 2020 288 صفحة

3.37

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🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Stand Before Your God

بقلم Paul Watkins • 1994

Seven years old, American, alone in an English boarding school where names cut deeper than fists.

4.04

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🏫 Boarding School Stories 🇺🇸 American In England 🎓 Elite Education 🦋 Loss Of Innocence 💔 School Bullying

Stand Before Your God

Seven years old, American, alone in an English boarding school where names cut deeper than fists.

بقلم Paul Watkins 1994 254 صفحة

4.04

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🏫 Boarding School Stories 🇺🇸 American In England 🎓 Elite Education 🦋 Loss Of Innocence 💔 School Bullying

Wonderland Avenue

بقلم Danny Sugerman • 1989

Jim Morrison gave him a purpose at 12; drugs gave him a heart infection at 21.

4.25

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🎸 Rock And Roll Excess 💊 Addiction Recovery 🌟 Celebrity Addiction 🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🎤 Music Journalism

Wonderland Avenue

Jim Morrison gave him a purpose at 12; drugs gave him a heart infection at 21.

بقلم Danny Sugerman 1989 480 صفحة

4.25

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🎸 Rock And Roll Excess 💊 Addiction Recovery 🌟 Celebrity Addiction 🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🎤 Music Journalism

Not Stolen

بقلم Jeff Fynn-Paul • 2023

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

4.13

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🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

Not Stolen

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

بقلم Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023 397 صفحة

4.13

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🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

How Not to Get Rich

بقلم Alan Pell Crawford • 2014

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

3.63

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🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography 📉 Business Failures 🎲 Speculation

How Not to Get Rich

Before he was America's most beloved author, Mark Twain was its most disastrous investor.

بقلم Alan Pell Crawford 2014 224 صفحة

3.63

١٢٣ تقييم

🏦 Financial Biography 🎩 Gilded Age ✍️ Literary Biography 📉 Business Failures 🎲 Speculation

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

بقلم John F. Baker Jr. • 2009

A classroom photograph sent a man searching for his enslaved ancestors on a Tennessee plantation.

4.24

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🪶 American Slavery 🏚️ Plantation Life 🎙️ Oral Histories 🧬 Genealogical Research 💔 Family Separation

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

A classroom photograph sent a man searching for his enslaved ancestors on a Tennessee plantation.

بقلم John F. Baker Jr. 2009 432 صفحة

4.24

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🪶 American Slavery 🏚️ Plantation Life 🎙️ Oral Histories 🧬 Genealogical Research 💔 Family Separation

Don't Burn This Country

بقلم Dave Rubin • 2022

The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.

3.90

٤٩٨

🚫 Cancel Culture Critique 💪 Self-Reliance 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Institutional Decline 🗣️ Free Speech

Don't Burn This Country

The left ate itself; dissent got you canceled. A survivor's playbook.

بقلم Dave Rubin 2022 237 صفحة

3.90

٤٩٨ تقييم

🚫 Cancel Culture Critique 💪 Self-Reliance 📰 Media Criticism 🏛️ Institutional Decline 🗣️ Free Speech

The Real Mad Men

بقلم Andrew Cracknell • 2011

Why you never saw a VW ad with tail fins: the revolt that birthed modern advertising.

3.56

٣٠٢

📰 Advertising History 🎨 Creative Industries 📋 Advertising Cases 💬 Soft Sell Advertising 💼 Advertising Professionals

The Real Mad Men

Why you never saw a VW ad with tail fins: the revolt that birthed modern advertising.

بقلم Andrew Cracknell 2011 224 صفحة

3.56

٣٠٢ تقييم

📰 Advertising History 🎨 Creative Industries 📋 Advertising Cases 💬 Soft Sell Advertising 💼 Advertising Professionals

Black Tooth Grin

بقلم Zac Crain • 2008

Shredding, double whiskeys, and a brother's bond: the life and onstage murder of Dimebag Darrell.

4.00

٥٠٠+

🤘 Heavy Metal 🎸 Rock Star Biography ⭐ Texas Music Scene 👬 Brotherhood In Music 🥃 Drinking Culture

Black Tooth Grin

Shredding, double whiskeys, and a brother's bond: the life and onstage murder of Dimebag Darrell.

بقلم Zac Crain 2008 336 صفحة

4.00

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🤘 Heavy Metal 🎸 Rock Star Biography ⭐ Texas Music Scene 👬 Brotherhood In Music 🥃 Drinking Culture

Gaslighting America

بقلم Amanda Carpenter • 2018

Why millions cheer when Trump lies: a repeatable playbook that weaponizes psychology and media.

3.89

٤٢٥

🎭 Political Manipulation 📺 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Disinformation Tactics 📖 Authoritarian Playbook 📰 Post-Truth Politics

Gaslighting America

Why millions cheer when Trump lies: a repeatable playbook that weaponizes psychology and media.

بقلم Amanda Carpenter 2018 288 صفحة

3.89

٤٢٥ تقييم

🎭 Political Manipulation 📺 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Disinformation Tactics 📖 Authoritarian Playbook 📰 Post-Truth Politics

Rivals

بقلم Katharine McGee • 2022

An American queen hosts the world's kings as her siblings' romances ignite a royal crisis.

3.77

٤٢٬٠٠٠+

👑 Modern Monarchy 🔺 Love Triangle 💔 Forbidden Love 📈 Social Climbing 🤝 Enemies To Allies

Rivals

An American queen hosts the world's kings as her siblings' romances ignite a royal crisis.

بقلم Katharine McGee 2022 400 صفحة

3.77

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👑 Modern Monarchy 🔺 Love Triangle 💔 Forbidden Love 📈 Social Climbing 🤝 Enemies To Allies

SMiLE

بقلم Domenic Priore • 2005

His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.

3.80

١٤٥

🎸 1960s Music 📼 Lost Albums ⚔️ Creative Differences 📻 Bootleg Culture 🏛️ American Mythology

SMiLE

His band buried his pop symphony. Bootleggers kept it alive. It took 37 years to finally premiere.

بقلم Domenic Priore 2005 199 صفحة

3.80

١٤٥ تقييم

🎸 1960s Music 📼 Lost Albums ⚔️ Creative Differences 📻 Bootleg Culture 🏛️ American Mythology

Getting to Green

بقلم Frederic C. Rich • 2016

No major environmental law has passed in 25 years. Here's why, and how to fix it.

4.02

١٠٦

🌿 Environmental Policy 🇺🇸 American Conservation 🪓 Political Polarization 🌡️ Climate Change Politics 🛡️ Stewardship Ethics

Getting to Green

No major environmental law has passed in 25 years. Here's why, and how to fix it.

بقلم Frederic C. Rich 2016 368 صفحة

4.02

١٠٦ تقييم

🌿 Environmental Policy 🇺🇸 American Conservation 🪓 Political Polarization 🌡️ Climate Change Politics 🛡️ Stewardship Ethics

Fiber

بقلم Susan P. Crawford • 2018

Fiber is this century's electricity, and America skipped the wiring job.

3.87

١٥٩

🌐 Internet Infrastructure 📡 Telecom Policy ⚖️ Regulatory Capture 🏛️ Anti-Monopoly 🔌 Public Utilities

Fiber

Fiber is this century's electricity, and America skipped the wiring job.

بقلم Susan P. Crawford 2018 264 صفحة

3.87

١٥٩ تقييم

🌐 Internet Infrastructure 📡 Telecom Policy ⚖️ Regulatory Capture 🏛️ Anti-Monopoly 🔌 Public Utilities

Talking to the Dead

بقلم Barbara Weisberg • 2004

Two sisters cracked their toe joints in 1848, launched a national religion and were consumed.

3.60

٥٠٠+

🕯️ Modern Spiritualism 🏛️ Spiritualist Movement 🔮 SéAnce Culture 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🧐 Skepticism And Belief

Talking to the Dead

Two sisters cracked their toe joints in 1848, launched a national religion and were consumed.

بقلم Barbara Weisberg 2004 324 صفحة

3.60

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🕯️ Modern Spiritualism 🏛️ Spiritualist Movement 🔮 SéAnce Culture 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🧐 Skepticism And Belief

Barnum

بقلم Robert Wilson • 2019

He sold Americans a mermaid made from a monkey. Queen Victoria still invited him to tea.

3.70

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🎟️ Show Business History 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Showmanship 🎭 Self-Invention 📢 Marketing Pioneers

Barnum

He sold Americans a mermaid made from a monkey. Queen Victoria still invited him to tea.

بقلم Robert Wilson 2019

3.70

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🎟️ Show Business History 💰 Gilded Age 🎩 Showmanship 🎭 Self-Invention 📢 Marketing Pioneers

[(The Coup

بقلم Ervand Abrahamian • 2013

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

4.13

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

[(The Coup

Oil, not communism, drove the 1953 Iran coup. Its buried logic still poisons US-Iran relations.

بقلم Ervand Abrahamian 2013

4.13

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📜 Iranian History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌐 Us-Iran Relations 🌍 Imperialism

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

بقلم Mark Twain • 2010

A century's delay let him speak without fear. The result is a hilarious, unvarnished life.

3.80

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🇺🇸 American Autobiography ✍️ Literary Memoir 📜 Posthumous Memoirs ⛓️ Slavery Memoirs 🕰️ 19th-Century America

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

A century's delay let him speak without fear. The result is a hilarious, unvarnished life.

بقلم Mark Twain 2010 736 صفحة

3.80

٨٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🇺🇸 American Autobiography ✍️ Literary Memoir 📜 Posthumous Memoirs ⛓️ Slavery Memoirs 🕰️ 19th-Century America

Inside Money

بقلم Zachary Karabell • 2021

The private bank that shunned speculation, survived every panic, and built the American century.

4.09

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🏦 Private Banking 🗽 Wall Street History 🏛️ American Establishment 👨‍👦‍👦 Family Business 🌎 Dollar Diplomacy

Inside Money

The private bank that shunned speculation, survived every panic, and built the American century.

بقلم Zachary Karabell 2021 448 صفحة

4.09

٤١١ تقييم

🏦 Private Banking 🗽 Wall Street History 🏛️ American Establishment 👨‍👦‍👦 Family Business 🌎 Dollar Diplomacy

My Men Are My Heroes

بقلم Brad Kasal • 2007

Grenade. He used his body as a shield. The photo went global. Recovery nearly broke him.

4.17

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🔥 Combat Memoir 🦅 Marine Corps 🏜️ Iraq War 🪖 Infantry Life ⭐ Battlefield Leadership

My Men Are My Heroes

Grenade. He used his body as a shield. The photo went global. Recovery nearly broke him.

بقلم Brad Kasal 2007 287 صفحة

4.17

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🔥 Combat Memoir 🦅 Marine Corps 🏜️ Iraq War 🪖 Infantry Life ⭐ Battlefield Leadership

صعود وسقوط النظام النيوليبرالي

بقلم غاري غيرستل • 2022

How free-market ideology conquered America, then collapsed under the weight of its own crises.

4.22

١٬٠٠٠+

🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Politics 📉 Neoliberalism 🔄 Political Realignment ⚖️ Economic Inequality

صعود وسقوط النظام النيوليبرالي

How free-market ideology conquered America, then collapsed under the weight of its own crises.

بقلم غاري غيرستل 2022 432 صفحة

4.22

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Politics 📉 Neoliberalism 🔄 Political Realignment ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Manifest Injustice

بقلم Barry Siegel • 2013

The clemency board voted unanimously to free him. Then the governor, facing reelection, said no.

4.10

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🚨 Wrongful Conviction 🕊️ Innocence Movement 🔬 Flawed Forensics 🏛️ Politics And Justice 🗝️ Prison Survival

Manifest Injustice

The clemency board voted unanimously to free him. Then the governor, facing reelection, said no.

بقلم Barry Siegel 2013 400 صفحة

4.10

١٧٨ تقييم

🚨 Wrongful Conviction 🕊️ Innocence Movement 🔬 Flawed Forensics 🏛️ Politics And Justice 🗝️ Prison Survival

Hattie Ever After

بقلم Kirby Larson • 2013

An orphan arrives in 1919 San Francisco chasing one fierce dream: a newspaper byline of her own.

3.82

٤٬٠٠٠+

🇺🇸 1910s America 📰 Aspiring Reporter 🏙️ Small Town To Big City 🧳 Orphan Protagonist 💌 Slow Burn Romance

Hattie Ever After

An orphan arrives in 1919 San Francisco chasing one fierce dream: a newspaper byline of her own.

بقلم Kirby Larson 2013 240 صفحة

3.82

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🇺🇸 1910s America 📰 Aspiring Reporter 🏙️ Small Town To Big City 🧳 Orphan Protagonist 💌 Slow Burn Romance

The Ballot and the Bible

بقلم Kaitlyn Schiess • 2023

American politics runs on biblical proof texts. The history of why that fails, and a better way.

4.22

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🏛️ Religion And Politics 📖 Biblical Interpretation ✝️ Political Theology 🇺🇸 Civil Religion 🔥 Prophetic Witness

The Ballot and the Bible

American politics runs on biblical proof texts. The history of why that fails, and a better way.

بقلم Kaitlyn Schiess 2023 218 صفحة

4.22

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏛️ Religion And Politics 📖 Biblical Interpretation ✝️ Political Theology 🇺🇸 Civil Religion 🔥 Prophetic Witness

In the Heart of the Sea

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick • 2000

A whale sank the Essex. Twenty men, three boats. Half the survivors ate their shipmates.

4.17

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⚓ Maritime History 🌊 Maritime Disasters 🐋 Whaling History 🚣 Open Boat Survival 🦴 Survival Cannibalism

In the Heart of the Sea

A whale sank the Essex. Twenty men, three boats. Half the survivors ate their shipmates.

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 302 صفحة

4.17

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⚓ Maritime History 🌊 Maritime Disasters 🐋 Whaling History 🚣 Open Boat Survival 🦴 Survival Cannibalism

That First Season

بقلم John Eisenberg • 2009

Seven wins from the NFL's worst team: the methods that built a dynasty in one season.

4.18

٥٠٠+

🏈 Football History 🔄 Turnaround Leadership 🫡 Disciplined Leadership 🏋️ Fundamentals Coaching 🌱 Talent Development

That First Season

Seven wins from the NFL's worst team: the methods that built a dynasty in one season.

بقلم John Eisenberg 2009 292 صفحة

4.18

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🏈 Football History 🔄 Turnaround Leadership 🫡 Disciplined Leadership 🏋️ Fundamentals Coaching 🌱 Talent Development

Wish You Well

بقلم David Baldacci • 2000

Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.

4.06

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🏔️ Appalachian Historical 👧 Orphaned Siblings 🌄 Land As Legacy 🏡 Found Family ⛏️ Coal Country

Wish You Well

Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.

بقلم David Baldacci 2000 432 صفحة

4.06

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🏔️ Appalachian Historical 👧 Orphaned Siblings 🌄 Land As Legacy 🏡 Found Family ⛏️ Coal Country

Seldom Disappointed

بقلم Tony Hillerman • 2001

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

4.01

٥٠٠+

✍️ Writer's Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture 🌐 Writing Across Cultures 🪖 Greatest Generation

Seldom Disappointed

Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.

بقلم Tony Hillerman 2001 530 صفحة

4.01

٥٠٠+ تقييم

✍️ Writer's Memoir 📝 Craft Of Writing 🏹 Native American Culture 🌐 Writing Across Cultures 🪖 Greatest Generation

Play It As It Lays

بقلم Joan Didion • 1970

A Hollywood actress drives the freeways to escape the silence left by a daughter locked away.

3.90

٩٣٬٠٠٠+

🎬 Hollywood Novel 🏚️ Woman On The Verge 💔 Disintegrating Marriage 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 🌴 Los Angeles Fiction

Play It As It Lays

A Hollywood actress drives the freeways to escape the silence left by a daughter locked away.

بقلم Joan Didion 1970 231 صفحة

3.90

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🎬 Hollywood Novel 🏚️ Woman On The Verge 💔 Disintegrating Marriage 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 🌴 Los Angeles Fiction

The Case That Never Dies

بقلم Lloyd C. Gardner • 2004

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

3.47

١١٨

🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

The Case That Never Dies

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

بقلم Lloyd C. Gardner 2004 480 صفحة

3.47

١١٨ تقييم

🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

The Nix

بقلم Nathan Hill • 2016

A failed novelist's vanished mother reappears by attacking a presidential candidate on camera.

4.08

٨٧٬٠٠٠+

🏡 Family Saga 💔 Generational Trauma 🚪 Parental Estrangement 🔍 Family Secrets 🖤 Darkly Comic

The Nix

A failed novelist's vanished mother reappears by attacking a presidential candidate on camera.

بقلم Nathan Hill 2016 625 صفحة

4.08

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🏡 Family Saga 💔 Generational Trauma 🚪 Parental Estrangement 🔍 Family Secrets 🖤 Darkly Comic

Absalom, Absalom!

بقلم William Faulkner • 1936

A Mississippi planter's empire rests on a secret: a mixed-race son whose return burns everything.

3.99

٤٨٬٠٠٠+

🖤 Southern Gothic 🏛️ Doomed Dynasty 🕵️ Hidden Parentage 🎭 Racial Passing 💔 Incest And Taboo

Absalom, Absalom!

A Mississippi planter's empire rests on a secret: a mixed-race son whose return burns everything.

بقلم William Faulkner 1936 316 صفحة

3.99

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🖤 Southern Gothic 🏛️ Doomed Dynasty 🕵️ Hidden Parentage 🎭 Racial Passing 💔 Incest And Taboo

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

بقلم Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

4.37

٢٠٬٠٠٠+

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

بقلم Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 320 صفحة

4.37

٢٠٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

Glory Days

بقلم Dave Marsh • 1987

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

3.78

٣٨٧

🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Glory Days

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

بقلم Dave Marsh 1987 424 صفحة

3.78

٣٨٧ تقييم

🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

After the Fall

بقلم Ben Rhodes • 2021

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

4.19

٤٬٠٠٠+

🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

After the Fall

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

بقلم Ben Rhodes 2021 339 صفحة

4.19

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

A Gathering of Days

بقلم Joan W. Blos • 1979

What a farm girl's 1830 journal holds: a hidden fugitive, a lost friend, a family remade.

3.52

٨٬٠٠٠+

📓 Diary Format 🌾 Farm Life 🕊️ Underground Railroad 💔 Loss Of A Friend 🏠 Blended Family

A Gathering of Days

What a farm girl's 1830 journal holds: a hidden fugitive, a lost friend, a family remade.

بقلم Joan W. Blos 1979 144 صفحة

3.52

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📓 Diary Format 🌾 Farm Life 🕊️ Underground Railroad 💔 Loss Of A Friend 🏠 Blended Family

Dead End Gene Pool

بقلم Wendy Burden • 2010

110 rooms, a Vanderbilt name, and three generations who drank their way through the inheritance.

3.30

٢٬٠٠٠+

🏛️ Gilded Age Dynasties 🇺🇸 American Aristocracy 💔 Dysfunctional Families ⛓️ Generational Trauma 🍸 Addiction Memoirs

Dead End Gene Pool

110 rooms, a Vanderbilt name, and three generations who drank their way through the inheritance.

بقلم Wendy Burden 2010 290 صفحة

3.30

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🏛️ Gilded Age Dynasties 🇺🇸 American Aristocracy 💔 Dysfunctional Families ⛓️ Generational Trauma 🍸 Addiction Memoirs

The Yellow Wife

بقلم Sadeqa Johnson • 2021

Sold to a slave jailer, she becomes his yellow wife. Love's return threatens her children's freedom.

4.44

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💔 Enslaved Concubine 🖤 Forced Motherhood ⛓️ Slave Jail 🎭 Passing As White 🌿 Mother-Daughter Legacy

The Yellow Wife

Sold to a slave jailer, she becomes his yellow wife. Love's return threatens her children's freedom.

بقلم Sadeqa Johnson 2021

4.44

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💔 Enslaved Concubine 🖤 Forced Motherhood ⛓️ Slave Jail 🎭 Passing As White 🌿 Mother-Daughter Legacy

Crossroads

بقلم Tom Graves • 2008

The crossroads devil never met Robert Johnson. The myth was stolen. His real story is stranger.

3.85

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🎸 Delta Blues 🔍 Debunking Legends ⚰️ Posthumous Legacy 🎧 Roots Of Rock 🇺🇸 American Folklore

Crossroads

The crossroads devil never met Robert Johnson. The myth was stolen. His real story is stranger.

بقلم Tom Graves 2008 133 صفحة

3.85

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🎸 Delta Blues 🔍 Debunking Legends ⚰️ Posthumous Legacy 🎧 Roots Of Rock 🇺🇸 American Folklore

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

بقلم Edgar Allan Poe • 1967

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

4.13

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🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

بقلم Edgar Allan Poe 1967 488 صفحة

4.13

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🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

Mile Marker Zero

بقلم William McKeen • 2011

1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.

3.93

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🏝️ Island Life 🌴 Bohemian Lifestyle ✌️ Counterculture 🎨 Creative Communities 🖊️ Gonzo Journalism

Mile Marker Zero

1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.

بقلم William McKeen 2011

3.93

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🏝️ Island Life 🌴 Bohemian Lifestyle ✌️ Counterculture 🎨 Creative Communities 🖊️ Gonzo Journalism

Money Changes Everything

بقلم Jenny Offill • 2007

Twenty-two writers reveal what money did to their marriages, their morals, and their sense of self.

3.52

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💰 Money And Morality 🏛️ Class In America 😰 Financial Anxiety 💔 Money And Relationships 🤫 Money Taboo

Money Changes Everything

Twenty-two writers reveal what money did to their marriages, their morals, and their sense of self.

بقلم Jenny Offill 2007 291 صفحة

3.52

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💰 Money And Morality 🏛️ Class In America 😰 Financial Anxiety 💔 Money And Relationships 🤫 Money Taboo

Tex-Mex Cookbook

بقلم Ford Fry • 2019

From breakfast tacos to backyard grilling, the essential guide to Tex-Mex cooking.

4.21

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🌮 Tex-Mex Cuisine 🍲 Comfort Food 🔥 Grilling 🍳 Breakfast Dishes 🐟 Seafood Cooking

Tex-Mex Cookbook

From breakfast tacos to backyard grilling, the essential guide to Tex-Mex cooking.

بقلم Ford Fry 2019 256 صفحة

4.21

١٠٧ تقييم

🌮 Tex-Mex Cuisine 🍲 Comfort Food 🔥 Grilling 🍳 Breakfast Dishes 🐟 Seafood Cooking

Buckley

بقلم Sam Tanenhaus • 2025

How a yachtsman with a magazine built the movement that elected Reagan.

4.21

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🏛️ Conservative Movement 🌐 Cold War Politics 📺 Political Media 🚩 Anti-Communism 🎙️ Public Intellectuals

Buckley

How a yachtsman with a magazine built the movement that elected Reagan.

بقلم Sam Tanenhaus 2025 1040 صفحة

4.21

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🏛️ Conservative Movement 🌐 Cold War Politics 📺 Political Media 🚩 Anti-Communism 🎙️ Public Intellectuals

Life Without Lawyers

بقلم Philip K. Howard • 2009

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

3.65

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⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Life Without Lawyers

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

بقلم Philip K. Howard 2009 224 صفحة

3.65

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⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Bitter Blood

بقلم Jerry Bledsoe • 1988

A custody war. A fake doctor. A mother who saved her last bullets for her own children.

4.04

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🏠 Family Annihilation ⚖️ Custody Battles 🧠 Folie à Deux 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏕️ Survivalist Paranoia

Bitter Blood

A custody war. A fake doctor. A mother who saved her last bullets for her own children.

بقلم Jerry Bledsoe 1988 573 صفحة

4.04

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🏠 Family Annihilation ⚖️ Custody Battles 🧠 Folie à Deux 🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏕️ Survivalist Paranoia

The Acid Queen

بقلم Susannah Cahalan • 2025

Two hundred acid trips, one prison escape, 24 years underground: the woman behind Timothy Leary.

3.78

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🧪 Psychedelic History 👩‍🎤 Women's Biography 🕵️‍♀️ Fugitive Lives 🦋 Identity Reinvention 🎷 Beat Generation

The Acid Queen

Two hundred acid trips, one prison escape, 24 years underground: the woman behind Timothy Leary.

بقلم Susannah Cahalan 2025 384 صفحة

3.78

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🧪 Psychedelic History 👩‍🎤 Women's Biography 🕵️‍♀️ Fugitive Lives 🦋 Identity Reinvention 🎷 Beat Generation

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