The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
By: Laurence Ralph
4.25
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but e…
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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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2. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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3. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
By: S. Lochlann Jain
4.19
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer―an all-too ordinary aspect o… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
5. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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6. The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
4.10
Format: None pages,
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each… read more
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7. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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8. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
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9. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more
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10. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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11. The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy, #1)
By: Chelsea Abdullah
4.01
Format: 468 pages, Hardcover
Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hun… read more
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12. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
13. The Princess Trap (The Midnight Heat Collection, #1)
By: Talia Hibbert
3.70
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed… read more
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"Some people like to say that all is fair in love and war. Those people cannot be trusted with power."-Talia Hibbert, The Princess Trap (The Midnight Heat Collection, #1)
14. On Rotation
By: Shirlene Obuobi
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi exp… read more
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"Ricky had seen the full, unfiltered range of what I was, and he liked me. Just as I was. Angie Appiah, with no edits."-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
"All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's famil…"-Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation
15. Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
By: Olivia Dade
3.64
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on tele… read more
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"His home was filled with valuables, even if he currently felt worthless."-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
"Heidi looked thoughtful. “Mel, darling, are you thinking what I’m thinking?"-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
"she loved shiny things, always had. But he wasn't a diamond. Just fool's gold."-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
"Could he even call whatever emotion they felt for him love, when they didn’t either understand or respect anything he did, anything he was?"-Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1)
16. The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
By: Laurence Ralph
4.25
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but e… read more
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- cultural
- race
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- police
- crime
- sociology
- anthropology
17. The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #2)
By: Talia Hibbert
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes an electric, domestic, roommates-to-love… read more
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"Rahul didn't count himself certain of many things. There was his life plan, which could be summed up as study and succeed; his beloved family; his numbers, which would never deceive him. And now, app…"-Talia Hibbert, The Roommate Risk (The Midnight Heat Collection, #2)
18. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman
4.54
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
20. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.31
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
21. The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5)
By: Olivia Atwater
3.59
Format: 44 pages, ebook
My kingdom for a magician! The year is 1812, and Mr Albert Lowe is the only soldier in his regim… read more
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"It is your job to choose the shame that you prefer, though the ghost of the other one might remain."-Olivia Atwater, The Lord Sorcier (Regency Faerie Tales, #0.5)
22. Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic
By: Lisa Stevenson
4.20
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two histo… read more
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- sociology
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23. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Audiobook
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for … read more
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- social justice
- sociology
24. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
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25. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
By: Lucas Bessire
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heart… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
26. Loss and Wonder at the World’s End
By: Laura A. Ogden
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Loss and Wonder at the World's End , Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—… read more
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27. The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians
By: Sa'ed Atshan
4.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Is… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Invitation to Peace Studies
By: Houston Wood
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Invitation to Peace Studies is the first textbook in the field to emphasize 21st-century research a… read more
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29. Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Book 8)
By: Nomi Stone
4.44
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidd… read more
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30. The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition
By: Jason Pine
4.23
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and… read more
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31. Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis
By: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnograp… read more
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