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The Jailhouse Lawyer

by Calvin Duncan • 2025

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

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🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir

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The Jailhouse Lawyer

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

by Calvin Duncan 2025 400 pages

4.49

1k+ ratings

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer • 1999

Complexity is the enemy of judgment. Fast, simple, even ignorant strategies win more than you think.

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178

🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Decision Theory ⚡ Mental Shortcuts

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

Complexity is the enemy of judgment. Fast, simple, even ignorant strategies win more than you think.

by Gerd Gigerenzer 1999 416 pages

3.73

178 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Decision Theory ⚡ Mental Shortcuts

One More Truth

by Stina Lindenblatt • 2024

A wrongly convicted woman's new life shatters when her town uncovers the past she fled.

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery 💘 He Falls First

One More Truth

A wrongly convicted woman's new life shatters when her town uncovers the past she fled.

by Stina Lindenblatt 2024

4.48

500+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery 💘 He Falls First

Tame the Heart

by Ava Hunter • 2023

A heart condition hidden, she makes a summer deal with a Montana cowboy sworn off love.

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🐴 Cowboy Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

Tame the Heart

A heart condition hidden, she makes a summer deal with a Montana cowboy sworn off love.

by Ava Hunter 2023 462 pages

3.98

21k+ ratings

🐴 Cowboy Romance 🏡 Small Town Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

Citizen Soldiers

by Stephen E. Ambrose • 1997

Hitler said democracy bred soft soldiers. The GIs at the hedgerows and Bastogne proved otherwise.

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🪖 Citizen Soldiers 🔍 Bottom Up History 🇺🇸 Us Army History

Citizen Soldiers

Hitler said democracy bred soft soldiers. The GIs at the hedgerows and Bastogne proved otherwise.

by Stephen E. Ambrose 1997 528 pages

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25k+ ratings

🪖 Citizen Soldiers 🔍 Bottom Up History 🇺🇸 Us Army History

The Savage and the Swan

by Ella Fields • 2021

A fae princess trains with the wolf king, the monster her people swear to destroy.

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❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🏰 Fae Kingdoms 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Savage and the Swan

A fae princess trains with the wolf king, the monster her people swear to destroy.

by Ella Fields 2021 348 pages

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20k+ ratings

❤️ Enemies To Lovers 🏰 Fae Kingdoms 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Priority of Preaching

by Christopher Ash • 2009

God didn't leave a book; he sent heralds. Why the sermon remains the church's irreplaceable center.

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📖 Expository Preaching 🎙️ Homiletics 🐑 Pastoral Theology

The Priority of Preaching

God didn't leave a book; he sent heralds. Why the sermon remains the church's irreplaceable center.

by Christopher Ash 2009 125 pages

4.19

175 ratings

📖 Expository Preaching 🎙️ Homiletics 🐑 Pastoral Theology

Tested Advertising Methods

by John Caples • 1980

Half your ad is the headline. The direct-mail pioneer's test-proven formula.

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✍️ Advertising Copywriting 📬 Direct Response Marketing 🔬 Scientific Advertising

Tested Advertising Methods

Half your ad is the headline. The direct-mail pioneer's test-proven formula.

by John Caples 1980 269 pages

4.23

1k+ ratings

✍️ Advertising Copywriting 📬 Direct Response Marketing 🔬 Scientific Advertising

Where Broken Wings Fly

by J. Rose • 2023

A battered mother and daughter escape to a remote valley, where three scarred men shelter them.

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💞 Polyamory 🩹 Trauma Recovery 👩‍👧 Single Mother

Where Broken Wings Fly

A battered mother and daughter escape to a remote valley, where three scarred men shelter them.

by J. Rose 2023 500 pages

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5k+ ratings

💞 Polyamory 🩹 Trauma Recovery 👩‍👧 Single Mother

Taming the Heart

by Elliott Rose • 2025

She swore off complicated men, then took a PR job on a married cowboy's ranch.

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🐴 Cowboy Romance 💍 Forbidden Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity

Taming the Heart

She swore off complicated men, then took a PR job on a married cowboy's ranch.

by Elliott Rose 2025 449 pages

3.99

18k+ ratings

🐴 Cowboy Romance 💍 Forbidden Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity

Wuthering Heights

by Wuthering Heights • 2021

Two children on the Yorkshire moors forge a bond so deep that death cannot sever it.

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🏚️ Gothic Literature 🎩 Victorian Fiction 💔 Tragic Romance

Wuthering Heights

Two children on the Yorkshire moors forge a bond so deep that death cannot sever it.

by Wuthering Heights 2021

3.90

101 ratings

🏚️ Gothic Literature 🎩 Victorian Fiction 💔 Tragic Romance

Everything on a Waffle

by Polly Horvath • 2004

At sea, her parents vanish. On land, she finds waffles, loses a toe, and waits.

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🏘️ Small Town Stories 🕊️ Children And Loss 🫂 Found Family

Everything on a Waffle

At sea, her parents vanish. On land, she finds waffles, loses a toe, and waits.

by Polly Horvath 2004 160 pages

3.71

11k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Stories 🕊️ Children And Loss 🫂 Found Family

The Princess In A 'Prince" Disguise

by Kiss Leilani • 2025

A hidden princess is thrown before a feral beast-king who scents the woman beneath her disguise.

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🖤 Dark Romantasy 👤 Girl Disguised As Boy 💫 Fated Mates

The Princess In A 'Prince" Disguise

A hidden princess is thrown before a feral beast-king who scents the woman beneath her disguise.

by Kiss Leilani 2025 460 pages

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2k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantasy 👤 Girl Disguised As Boy 💫 Fated Mates

The Good Boy

by Stella Hayward • 2025

A tipsy wish turns her dog into a man, and the magic refuses to reverse it.

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🪄 Family Magic 🐾 Animal Transformation 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Good Boy

A tipsy wish turns her dog into a man, and the magic refuses to reverse it.

by Stella Hayward 2025 320 pages

3.70

500+ ratings

🪄 Family Magic 🐾 Animal Transformation 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

by Ben Reeves • 2026

Death is a lonely man restoring old photographs. A child's friendship shatters his detachment.

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🖤 Death As Narrator 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 💔 Grieving Mother

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Death is a lonely man restoring old photographs. A child's friendship shatters his detachment.

by Ben Reeves 2026 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🖤 Death As Narrator 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 💔 Grieving Mother

The Book of Hygge

by Louisa Thomsen Brits • 2016

The Danish art of cozy: a practice of warmth, shelter, and unpretentious belonging.

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🧣 Scandinavian Lifestyle 🐌 Slow Living ☕️ Cozy Living

The Book of Hygge

The Danish art of cozy: a practice of warmth, shelter, and unpretentious belonging.

by Louisa Thomsen Brits 2016 192 pages

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🧣 Scandinavian Lifestyle 🐌 Slow Living ☕️ Cozy Living

Busted

by Karin Slaughter • 2013

A GBI agent interrupts a gas station robbery and uncovers a Southern family's deadly conspiracy.

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🚔 Police Procedural 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👵 Manipulative Matriarch

Busted

A GBI agent interrupts a gas station robbery and uncovers a Southern family's deadly conspiracy.

by Karin Slaughter 2013 103 pages

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18k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👵 Manipulative Matriarch

ChiRunning

by Danny Dreyer • 2004

Replace leg strain with alignment: T'ai Chi teaches the body to run on gravity, not force.

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🏃‍♂️ Running Form 🩹 Injury Prevention 🌿 Natural Running

ChiRunning

Replace leg strain with alignment: T'ai Chi teaches the body to run on gravity, not force.

by Danny Dreyer 2004 236 pages

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🏃‍♂️ Running Form 🩹 Injury Prevention 🌿 Natural Running

Becoming Safely Embodied

by Deirdre Fay • 2021

Safety is a skill: step-by-step tools to teach your body to feel secure again.

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🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧘 Somatic Healing 🌡️ Emotional Regulation

Becoming Safely Embodied

Safety is a skill: step-by-step tools to teach your body to feel secure again.

by Deirdre Fay 2021 201 pages

3.99

347 ratings

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🧘 Somatic Healing 🌡️ Emotional Regulation

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

by Karl Marx • 1844

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Philosophy

Economics

Politics

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

by Karl Marx 1844 248 pages

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Philosophy

Economics

Politics

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

by Steven M. Druker • 2012

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

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🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

by Steven M. Druker 2012 528 pages

4.18

222 ratings

🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud

Accelerated Learning

by James Horton • 2017

Learning isn't about IQ. Systematic techniques that double reading speed and make recall automatic.

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📚 Study Skills 👁️ Speed Reading 🧠 Memory Improvement

Accelerated Learning

Learning isn't about IQ. Systematic techniques that double reading speed and make recall automatic.

by James Horton 2017 232 pages

3.43

134 ratings

📚 Study Skills 👁️ Speed Reading 🧠 Memory Improvement

Dreaming

by J. Allan Hobson • 2005

Every night your brain enters a temporary psychosis. Here is the chemical switch behind it.

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💤 Sleep Science 💭 Dream Research 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience

Dreaming

Every night your brain enters a temporary psychosis. Here is the chemical switch behind it.

by J. Allan Hobson 2005 153 pages

3.37

500+ ratings

💤 Sleep Science 💭 Dream Research 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience

Jump-Starting America

by Jonathan Gruber • 2019

Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.

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🔬 Science Policy 💡 Innovation Economics 🏙️ Technology Hubs

Jump-Starting America

Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.

by Jonathan Gruber 2019 368 pages

4.07

334 ratings

🔬 Science Policy 💡 Innovation Economics 🏙️ Technology Hubs

Sacrifice

by Adriana Locke • 2015

A guilt-ridden fighter returns to the ring to save his brother's widow from losing her child.

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🖤 Second Chance Romance 🥊 Fighter Romance 🏠 Found Family

Sacrifice

A guilt-ridden fighter returns to the ring to save his brother's widow from losing her child.

by Adriana Locke 2015 325 pages

4.30

10k+ ratings

🖤 Second Chance Romance 🥊 Fighter Romance 🏠 Found Family

Black Wings and Blind Angels

by Sapphire • 2000

She swallowed a photograph of her mother's betrayal, then wrote her way beyond the family curse.

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📝 Confessional Poetry 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛑 Child Sexual Abuse

Black Wings and Blind Angels

She swallowed a photograph of her mother's betrayal, then wrote her way beyond the family curse.

by Sapphire 2000 144 pages

3.91

171 ratings

📝 Confessional Poetry 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🛑 Child Sexual Abuse

Boom Bust

by Fred Harrison • 1999

Land speculation drives the 18-year boom-bust cycle. The next crash already builds.

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🏠 Land Economics 🫧 Housing Bubbles 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles

Boom Bust

Land speculation drives the 18-year boom-bust cycle. The next crash already builds.

by Fred Harrison 1999 304 pages

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38 ratings

🏠 Land Economics 🫧 Housing Bubbles 📉 Boom-Bust Cycles

Waiting on the Word

by Malcolm Guite • 2015

A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

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Poetry

Christmas

Christian

Waiting on the Word

A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

by Malcolm Guite 2015 176 pages

4.58

1k+ ratings

Poetry

Christmas

Christian

Operation Shylock

by Philip Roth • 1993

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

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🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

Operation Shylock

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

by Philip Roth 1993 400 pages

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5k+ ratings

🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator

Suzanne Somers' Eat, Cheat, And Melt The Fat Away

by Suzanne Sommers • 2001

Butter, cheese, and steak on a diet: the combining rule that ends calorie counting forever.

3.74

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🍽️ Food Combining 🩸 Insulin Resistance ⚖️ Hormone Balance

Suzanne Somers' Eat, Cheat, And Melt The Fat Away

Butter, cheese, and steak on a diet: the combining rule that ends calorie counting forever.

by Suzanne Sommers 2001

3.74

128 ratings

🍽️ Food Combining 🩸 Insulin Resistance ⚖️ Hormone Balance

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