Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
By: Jerry Mitchell
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would…
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1. Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
By: Maryanne Vollers
4.29
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
The civil rights movement was just beginning to catch fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when… read more
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2. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
By: Timothy B. Tyson
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a … read more
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3. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
By: Hampton Sides
3.17
Format: None pages,
On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped … read more
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4. Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
By: Julian Bond , Devery S. Anderson
3.83
Format: None pages,
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement. "Em… read more
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5. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
By: Chris Crowe
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emm… read more
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6. The Blood of Emmett Till
By: Timothy B. Tyson
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Timesbestseller r… read more
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7. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
By: Ron Shelton
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely enterta… read more
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8. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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9. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
10. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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11. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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12. Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.12
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s citi… read more
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"Rapists are created, not born"-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
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"It appears that those immigrants with illiberal and misogynistic ideas are protected but we liberal feminists are not."-Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
13. Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
By: Jerry Mitchell
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would… read more
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14. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
By: Keith O'Brien
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more
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15. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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16. The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
By: Rebecca Clarren
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe An award-winning author … read more
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17. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more
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18. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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19. The Resisters
By: Gish Jen
3.59
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
The moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten… read more
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"...even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call…"-Gish Jen, The Resisters
20. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
By: Jonathan Vigliotti
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more
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21. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America
By: Rachel Louise Martin
4.22
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more
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