The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
By: David A. Chang
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu…
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1. Indians in Unexpected Places
By: Philip J. Deloria
3.88
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stere… read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
- academic
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- history
- academic
- grad school
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
5. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
By: Kathleen DuVal
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were often able to determin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- research
6. The True Story of Kaluaikoolau: As Told by His Wife, Piilani
By: None , Frances N. Frazier
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that… read more
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7. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
9. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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10. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
By: Noenoe K. Silva
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaii… read more
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11. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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12. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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- nonfiction
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
13. Winter’s Orbit
By: Everina Maxwell
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Everina Maxwell's exciting debut. While the I… read more
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"Jainan,"-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"Some things feel the same no matter how much time passes."-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"Bears often hoard rose petals to strew on hiking couples. Little-known romantic fact."-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"His eyes reflected the light from the hall; behind him, beyond the void, the stars burned in the enduring points; far beyond them, a telescope could have seen the maelstrom of the link, and a million…"-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
14. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
17. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
18. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. The Allure of the Archives
By: Arlette Farge
3.91
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combi… read more
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- history
- research
- academic
- grad school
- nonfiction
20. Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (Critical Indigeneities)
By: Brianna Theobald
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on India… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- indigenous
21. Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective (Oxford Oral History Series)
By: Nepia Mahuika
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped an… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
By: David A. Chang
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more
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- history
- research
- academic
- indigenous
- grad school
- nonfiction
- anthropology
23. Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha 'Aina, and Ea (Indigenous Americas)
By: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
4.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body… read more
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24. Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Volume 1) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Vanessa M. Holden
4.24
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turn… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
25. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
By: Michael John Witgen
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homelan… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- research
- indigenous
26. Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i (Volume 69) (American Crossroads)
By: Christen T. Sasaki
4.40
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansio… read more
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27. Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
By: Candace Fujikane
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice of mapping… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania
By: Maile Arvin
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
- indigenous
29. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)
By: No‘u Revilla
4.28
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more
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- nonfiction
- indigenous
30. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Samantha Seeley
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding dec… read more
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- history
