The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
By: David Mura
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain rac…
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1. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
By: Shannon Gibney , None , David Grant , Kao Kalia Yang , Sun Yung Shin , Taiyon Coleman , Heid E. Erdrich , None , Carolyn Holbrook , None , Andrea Jenkins , None , None , Sherry Quan Lee , David Mura , Bao Phi , None
4.48
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A 2020 selection of One Book, One Minnesota! "Reading this book in community offers some Minnesota… read more
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- race
- history
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
"So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes."-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Tell me the truth of the matter. When I don't understand, I will not protest or judge or correct, I will simply listen harder. I am here to recognize you as my fellow human being with a story."-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Before America, I was not Black. I was not adrift in a sea of White that I constantly had to come to terms with, against which my very humanity is measured--by Whites, Blacks, the world, and even mys…"-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
"Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men of all stripes. We did not have Black doctors, Black bu…"-Shannon Gibney, A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
2. Professional Idiot: A Memoir
By: Stephen "Steve-O" Glover , David Peisner
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass movies, there wa… read more
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- nonfiction
"When we were working on Jackass and I'd be traveling in the same bus, car, or van with Johnny Knoxville on road trips, he'd sometimes stick sedative pills in my food in the hope that they'd shut me u…"-Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir
"A couple months after school started that year, I just plain stopped going to see the Maje. I remember coming home one day and checking the answering machine in my bedroom. The first message was from…"-Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir
3. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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4. Future Home of the Living God
By: Louise Erdrich
3.60
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more
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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God
5. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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- historical
7. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
8. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
9. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
10. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
12. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
13. A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
By: Stephen "Steve-O" Glover
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stephen "Steve-O" Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass —delivers … read more
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- nonfiction
14. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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- historical
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
15. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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- historical
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
16. Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)
By: Kelly Yang
4.42
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Mia Tang thinks she’s going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners… read more
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"The pain broke my heart into a thousand pieces."-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)
"the worry that if he didn’t take every single thing, a part of him would be lost forever."-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)
"But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying."-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)
17. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. Flatlands
By: Sue Hubbard
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of… read more
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- historical
19. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
21. Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-wh… read more
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- race
- social justice
22. The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
By: Jermaine Fowler
4.46
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
23. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
24. Button Pusher
By: Tyler Page
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-driven realistic graphic novel about Tyler, a child who is diagnosed with ADHD and has to … read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
By: David Mura
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain rac… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- politics
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- anti racist
26. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System
By: Ryan J. Reilly
3.95
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. Tired Ladies Take a Stand
By: Gretchen Anthony
3.38
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
You've heard of Year of Yes. Introducing... Year of No. During one unforgettable year in their t… read more
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28. Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn
By: Omkari Williams
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Everyone can be an activist with the guidance of Omkari Williams, a life coach who guides readers i… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
29. The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color
By: Alexs D. Pate
3.98
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, dis… read more
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30. In the Company of Grace: A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing
By: Jody Lulich
4.62
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassio… read more
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- nonfiction
