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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink

558 pages • 2013 • 15 editions

nonfiction health history science sociology true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner

Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape

Mark Lee Gardner

320 pages • 2013 • 5 editions

nonfiction biography history true crime adventurous fast-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

Doris Kearns Goodwin

912 pages • 2013 • 10 editions

nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

339 pages • 2009 • 45 editions

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

352 pages • 2012 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

The Romanovs #2

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Robert K. Massie

625 pages • 2011 • 25 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind by Ray Monk, Ray Monk

Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind

Ray Monk, Ray Monk

848 pages • 2012 • 1 edition

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese

Michael Paterniti

349 pages • 2013 • 5 editions

nonfiction autobiography travel tense slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella

The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman #4

Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim

Francesca Serritella, Lisa Scottoline

262 pages • 2012 • 6 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective fast-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

Daniel Stashower

368 pages • 2013 • 8 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review