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Stepping Up

by John B. Izzo • 2011

How taking full ownership, not blaming, rewires your influence in any room you walk into.

3.83

353

🧭 Personal Responsibility 🏢 Workplace Culture 🌟 Everyday Leadership

Stepping Up

How taking full ownership, not blaming, rewires your influence in any room you walk into.

by John B. Izzo 2011 184 pages

3.83

353 ratings

🧭 Personal Responsibility 🏢 Workplace Culture 🌟 Everyday Leadership

The Tacit Dimension

by Michael Polanyi • 1966

Every explicit rule, theorem, and formula floats on a vast sea of knowledge you cannot articulate.

4.04

478

🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Embodied Knowledge 👁️ Phenomenology

The Tacit Dimension

Every explicit rule, theorem, and formula floats on a vast sea of knowledge you cannot articulate.

by Michael Polanyi 1966 119 pages

4.04

478 ratings

🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Embodied Knowledge 👁️ Phenomenology

Criminal Genius

by James C. Oleson • 2016

High IQ does not deter crime; it just makes offenders smarter about getting away.

4.17

💼 White Collar Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 📜 Moral Development

Criminal Genius

High IQ does not deter crime; it just makes offenders smarter about getting away.

by James C. Oleson 2016 300 pages

4.17

18 ratings

💼 White Collar Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 📜 Moral Development

The Cute Psycho

by Veronica Lancet • 2025

A Bratva berserker haunted by his twin meets a survivor whose demons answer his own.

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🖤 Dark Romance 🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Trauma Bonding

The Cute Psycho

A Bratva berserker haunted by his twin meets a survivor whose demons answer his own.

by Veronica Lancet 2025 352 pages

3.92

1k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romance 🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Trauma Bonding

Miracles Through Pranic Healing

by Choa Kok Sui • 1999

Use your hands to feel and clear energy blockages, tripling the body's natural healing rate.

4.55

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👐 Energy Healing 🌀 Chakra Systems 🌬️ Breathwork Healing

Miracles Through Pranic Healing

Use your hands to feel and clear energy blockages, tripling the body's natural healing rate.

by Choa Kok Sui 1999 396 pages

4.55

424 ratings

👐 Energy Healing 🌀 Chakra Systems 🌬️ Breathwork Healing

The Last One

by Rachel Howzell Hall • 2024

An amnesiac goddess wakes in a dying realm, hunted by a blacksmith born to kill her.

2.85

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🖤 Dark Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Last One

An amnesiac goddess wakes in a dying realm, hunted by a blacksmith born to kill her.

by Rachel Howzell Hall 2024 496 pages

2.85

7k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Romantasy ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Hidden Identity

Happy After All

by Maisey Yates • 2025

A pink desert motel, a heartbroken owner, and the widower who checks in each summer.

3.87

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🏘️ Small Town Romance 🕰️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Dating

Happy After All

A pink desert motel, a heartbroken owner, and the widower who checks in each summer.

by Maisey Yates 2025 315 pages

3.87

10k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🕰️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Dating

The Broken Eye

by Brent Weeks • 2014

A fallen Prism's son risks his mind unlocking magical memories to save a crumbling empire.

4.44

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🏛️ Political Intrigue 🎭 Secret Identity ⚡ Reluctant Chosen One

The Broken Eye

A fallen Prism's son risks his mind unlocking magical memories to save a crumbling empire.

by Brent Weeks 2014 688 pages

4.44

70k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Intrigue 🎭 Secret Identity ⚡ Reluctant Chosen One

Ending Empire

by Hendrik Spruyt • 2005

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

4.00

🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock

Ending Empire

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

by Hendrik Spruyt 2005 326 pages

4.00

7 ratings

🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock

A More Perfect Constitution

by Larry J. Sabato • 2007

Twenty-three fixes for a rusty Constitution: bigger Congress, term limits, a state convention.

3.66

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🏛️ Constitutional Reform 🗳️ Electoral Reform ⚖️ Judicial Reform

A More Perfect Constitution

Twenty-three fixes for a rusty Constitution: bigger Congress, term limits, a state convention.

by Larry J. Sabato 2007 352 pages

3.66

335 ratings

🏛️ Constitutional Reform 🗳️ Electoral Reform ⚖️ Judicial Reform

Shadowman

by Nyla K. • 2025

Two violent men collide in an island prison, where tenderness is the deadliest secret.

4.30

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🚓 Prison Romance 💔 Hurt/Comfort ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

Shadowman

Two violent men collide in an island prison, where tenderness is the deadliest secret.

by Nyla K. 2025

4.30

2k+ ratings

🚓 Prison Romance 💔 Hurt/Comfort ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

Endless Customers

by Marcus Sheridan • 2025

Publish your pricing, your flaws, and your competitors. The payoff: buyers who trust only you.

4.67

📝 Content Marketing 📥 Inbound Marketing 🔍 Business Transparency

Endless Customers

Publish your pricing, your flaws, and your competitors. The payoff: buyers who trust only you.

by Marcus Sheridan 2025 1 pages

4.67

3 ratings

📝 Content Marketing 📥 Inbound Marketing 🔍 Business Transparency

In the Absence of the Ordinary

by Francis Weller • 2025

4.42

316

Spirituality

Essays

Grief

In the Absence of the Ordinary

by Francis Weller 2025 60 pages

4.42

316 ratings

Spirituality

Essays

Grief

The Web That Has No Weaver

by Ted J. Kaptchuk • 1983

Western medicine isolates a cause. Chinese medicine reads a web. Another way of knowing the body.

4.23

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🏮 Chinese Medicine ☯️ Taoism 🌿 Holistic Healing

The Web That Has No Weaver

Western medicine isolates a cause. Chinese medicine reads a web. Another way of knowing the body.

by Ted J. Kaptchuk 1983 528 pages

4.23

2k+ ratings

🏮 Chinese Medicine ☯️ Taoism 🌿 Holistic Healing

Amazing Grace

by Eric Metaxas • 2007

One man's faith, one damning diagram, and two decades of defeats: how the slave trade fell.

4.21

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🔗 Abolitionist History ✝️ Christian Biography ⛪ Faith In Politics

Amazing Grace

One man's faith, one damning diagram, and two decades of defeats: how the slave trade fell.

by Eric Metaxas 2007 281 pages

4.21

9k+ ratings

🔗 Abolitionist History ✝️ Christian Biography ⛪ Faith In Politics

Burn the Wild

by Ava Hunter • 2025

A country superstar hides on a Montana ranch, battling the scarred cowboy forced to protect her.

4.18

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🐴 Cowboy Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity

Burn the Wild

A country superstar hides on a Montana ranch, battling the scarred cowboy forced to protect her.

by Ava Hunter 2025 492 pages

4.18

9k+ ratings

🐴 Cowboy Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity

The Corruption of Economics

by Mason Gaffney • 1994

To defeat one reformer, economists rewrote their discipline and deleted land as a category.

4.38

🌍 Georgism 🏠 Land Monopoly 💰 Rent-Seeking

The Corruption of Economics

To defeat one reformer, economists rewrote their discipline and deleted land as a category.

by Mason Gaffney 1994 272 pages

4.38

16 ratings

🌍 Georgism 🏠 Land Monopoly 💰 Rent-Seeking

Cleaning the Gold

by Karin Slaughter • 2019

Undercover at Fort Knox, two men cleaning gold learn their separate missions point to one crime

3.49

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🔍 Cold Case Investigation 🕵️ Undercover Operation 🪖 Corrupt Military

Cleaning the Gold

Undercover at Fort Knox, two men cleaning gold learn their separate missions point to one crime

by Karin Slaughter 2019 129 pages

3.49

24k+ ratings

🔍 Cold Case Investigation 🕵️ Undercover Operation 🪖 Corrupt Military

Body Respect

by Linda Bacon • 2014

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

4.19

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🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma

Body Respect

BMI standards were written by the weight-loss industry, and dieting trains your body to gain weight.

by Linda Bacon 2014 232 pages

4.19

1k+ ratings

🔬 Weight Science 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma

From mobilization to revolution

by Charles Tilly • 1978

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

3.98

🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory

From mobilization to revolution

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

by Charles Tilly 1978 349 pages

3.98

42 ratings

🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory

Sweet Temptation

by Bella Matthews • 2025

With cystic fibrosis, she moves in with her brother and the football star who loves her.

4.20

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❤️‍🩹 Chronic Illness Romance 🏈 Sports Romance 👫 Brother'S Best Friend

Sweet Temptation

With cystic fibrosis, she moves in with her brother and the football star who loves her.

by Bella Matthews 2025 280 pages

4.20

7k+ ratings

❤️‍🩹 Chronic Illness Romance 🏈 Sports Romance 👫 Brother'S Best Friend

Yoga for Everyone

by Dianne Bondy • 2019

No flexibility required: fifty poses, from chair to handstand, built for the body you have today.

4.53

372

🧘 Accessible Yoga ❤️ Body Positive Yoga ➕ Plus Size Yoga

Yoga for Everyone

No flexibility required: fifty poses, from chair to handstand, built for the body you have today.

by Dianne Bondy 2019 256 pages

4.53

372 ratings

🧘 Accessible Yoga ❤️ Body Positive Yoga ➕ Plus Size Yoga

A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2

by Frederick Charles Copleston • 1950

Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus

4.20

1k+

Philosophy

History

Reference

A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2

Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus

by Frederick Charles Copleston 1950 624 pages

4.20

1k+ ratings

Philosophy

History

Reference

She's a Lamb!

by Meredith Hambrock • 2025

Passed over for Maria, an actress turned childminder waits for her rival's one wrong move.

3.80

5k+

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Toxic Ambition 🌀 Mental Unraveling

She's a Lamb!

Passed over for Maria, an actress turned childminder waits for her rival's one wrong move.

by Meredith Hambrock 2025 312 pages

3.80

5k+ ratings

🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Toxic Ambition 🌀 Mental Unraveling

Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns • 1984

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

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⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator

Cold Sassy Tree

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

by Olive Ann Burns 1984 405 pages

4.02

100k+ ratings

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator

Social Movements, 1768-2004

by Charles Tilly • 2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

3.84

145

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology

Social Movements, 1768-2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

by Charles Tilly 2004 204 pages

3.84

145 ratings

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology

The Arrogance of Humanism

by David W. Ehrenfeld • 1978

Modernity's religion of reason promises total control. Its actual deliverable is cascading failure.

3.97

🧠 Environmental Philosophy 🔧 Technocritique 💰 Ecological Economics

The Arrogance of Humanism

Modernity's religion of reason promises total control. Its actual deliverable is cascading failure.

by David W. Ehrenfeld 1978 304 pages

3.97

91 ratings

🧠 Environmental Philosophy 🔧 Technocritique 💰 Ecological Economics

The Politics of Collective Violence

by Charles Tilly • 2003

Violence isn't chaos; it's politics, shaped by regimes and the relationships leaders exploit.

3.85

151

✊ Contentious Politics 🔗 Relational Sociology 💥 Political Violence

The Politics of Collective Violence

Violence isn't chaos; it's politics, shaped by regimes and the relationships leaders exploit.

by Charles Tilly 2003 290 pages

3.85

151 ratings

✊ Contentious Politics 🔗 Relational Sociology 💥 Political Violence

Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't

by Gavin Ortlund • 2021

The case for God that starts not with arguments but with beauty, music, and longing.

4.51

500+

🙏 Christian Apologetics 💫 Argument From Desire ⚖️ Moral Argument

Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't

The case for God that starts not with arguments but with beauty, music, and longing.

by Gavin Ortlund 2021 240 pages

4.51

500+ ratings

🙏 Christian Apologetics 💫 Argument From Desire ⚖️ Moral Argument

Dark Things I Adore

by Katie Lattari • 2021

A protégé lures her mentor to the Maine woods where her paintings reveal his buried crime.

3.66

6k+

🏛️ Dark Academia 🔥 Female Revenge ⚠️ Predatory Mentor

Dark Things I Adore

A protégé lures her mentor to the Maine woods where her paintings reveal his buried crime.

by Katie Lattari 2021 416 pages

3.66

6k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia 🔥 Female Revenge ⚠️ Predatory Mentor

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