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10 best books like Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Katy Lederer): The Saturday Night Ghost Club, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Nicotine, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Tortilla Flat, Waiting for SUPERMAN: A Participant Media Guide, Filthy Rich, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home

The Saturday Night Ghost Club
AuthorCraig Davidson
ISBN0735274827
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "Stand by Me" about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly...
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
AuthorCarol Anderson
ISBN1632864126
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the...
Nicotine
AuthorNell Zink
ISBN0008179174
From the much acclaimed author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father’s childhood...
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America
AuthorDavid Cay Johnston
ISBN1501174177
The Trump administration is remaking the government. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells readers exactly how it is making America worse again.

Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political...
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
AuthorCharles Henderson
ISBN0425181650
This is an incredibly whitewashed, essentially jingoistic quasi-novel rather than a genuine biography. In the preface, the author freely admits that he ”took the liberty of inventing dialogue for Hathcock’s North Vietnamese and Viet Cong opponents.” He also invents their thoughts, and,...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
AuthorKathryn Edin
ISBN0544303180
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists

Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in...
Tortilla Flat
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0582461502
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald Tribune

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the...
Waiting for SUPERMAN: A Participant Media Guide
AuthorKarl Weber
ISBN1586489275
Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.   The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill...
Filthy Rich
AuthorJames Patterson
A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
AuthorHeather "Anish" Anderson
ISBN1680512366
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
The Rabbit Girls
AuthorAnna Ellory
ISBN1542094194
Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda – and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap – Henryk’s secret history begins to unravel.

Searching for more...
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
AuthorMichael Craig
ISBN0446694975
- One of the author's sources for this book is a member of the illustrious and mysterious "Corporation" of top-10 poker players who pool their money to play for millions--revealing for the first time the secrets of their games, strategies, and partnership. - Books about gambling sell extremely well,...
The Suffragette's Secret: A Morton Farrier Short Story
AuthorNathan Dylan Goodwin
The Suffragette’s Secret: A Morton Farrier Short Story

An original Morton Farrier short story, published exclusively as an ebook.

Morton Farrier’s life has been turned upside down by the recent addition to his household. Despite his perpetual exhaustion, he is determined...
Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam
AuthorPeter Clark
ISBN1612005993
A Military Book Club main selection

Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company. Clark gives a visceral, vivid and immediate account of...
Check-raising the Devil
AuthorMike Matusow
ISBN1580422616
1.  Big Poker Celebrity:  The super popular and always entertaining Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is a huge fan favorite from his many implosions, explosions, and huge successes at the poker table on national TV.

 

2.  Fascinating Memoir:  This book has it all: high stakes gambling,...
The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk about the Game They Loved
AuthorFay Vincent
ISBN0743273184
The 1930s was the era of such baseball legends as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Joe DiMaggio. In The Only Game in Town, pitcher Elden Auker recalls what it was like to face these sluggers, while Red Sox outfielder Dom DiMaggio remembers how he nearly ended his brother Joe's record...
Lambeau: The Man Behind The Mystique
AuthorDavid Zimmerman
There are precious few individuals who through the sheer magnitude of their success or personalities come to transcend their sport. Truly, they are larger than life. Breaking legendary hallowed ground, these figures are remembered far beyond statistics, victories or trophies. Pioneers, innovators,...
Piloting Palm: The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring, and the Birth of the Billion-Dollar Handheld Industry
AuthorAndrea Butter
ISBN0471089656
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of the visionary team that launched the handheld industry.

Palm insider Andrea Butter and New York Times columnist David Pogue -- with full, exclusive cooperation of the company's founders and more than fifty key Palm and Handspring executives --...
You Cannot Be Serious
AuthorJohn McEnroe
ISBN0425190080
John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of 18 - and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, a no-holds-barred examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and...
The Green Bay Packers The Dan Devine Years 1971-1974
AuthorStanton Greene
Volumes have been written about the Green Bay Packers detailing virtually every aspect of their storied history except one, the two decades of folly that lay between the legendary reign of Vince Lombardi and their resurgence in the 1990s under Mike Holmgren and Ron Wolf. The most pivotal of those years...
We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved
AuthorFay Vincent
ISBN1416553428
Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. These were the decades when baseball expanded across the country and truly became the national pastime. The era opened, though,...
Loveology Video Study: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.
AuthorHarperCollins Christian Pub.
ISBN0310688388
In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve.

And ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces.

Loveology is a theology of love from God’s point of view. 

The five sessions start with God’s design for marriage and works backward, dealing with sexuality, romance,...
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