After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
By: Jessica Goudeau
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Time…
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1. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Re Jane
By: Patricia Park
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she's been trying to… read more
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3. Blood Brothers
By: Elias Chacour , David Hazard
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were pro… read more
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4. Cost
By: Roxana Robinson
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plan… read more
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5. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more
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6. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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7. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- history
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- social justice
- social issues
8. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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- audiobook
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
9. 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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- audiobook
"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
10. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- audiobook
11. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- race
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- social justice
- audiobook
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
12. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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- history
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- memoir
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- audiobook
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
13. After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
By: Jessica Goudeau
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Time… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.18
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. The Ungrateful Refugee
By: Dina Nayeri
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with thos… read more
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- race
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- social justice
- audiobook
"Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied.…"-Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee
16. House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift)
By: Myquillyn Smith
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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- audiobook
18. Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
By: Yusef Salaam
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"No matter what life has taken you through...try to live full and die empty."-Yusef Salaam, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
19. What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry
By: Stephanie Saldana
4.45
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Eggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their hom… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
By: Ilhan Omar
4.26
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
21. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
By: Wendell Berry
3.68
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more
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"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
