When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
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1. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
2. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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3. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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4. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
5. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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8. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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9. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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10. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
By: Benjamin Herold
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more
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11. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more
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12. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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13. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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14. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- audiobook
15. A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
By: Ann Claire
3.61
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A Cyclist's Guide Mystery Vicariously tour the sundrenched Mediterranean Coast in this perfectly… read more
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16. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
By: Michele Norris
4.62
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more
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- social justice
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- audiobook
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
17. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
18. If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
By: Vicki Sokolik
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman … read more
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- social justice
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19. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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20. Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
By: Nikhil Goyal
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the po… read more
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21. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
By: Sami Sage
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more
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"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
