The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se…
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By: Peter Tyson , Russell A. Mittermeier
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Since the age of dinosaurs, Madagascar has thrived in isolation off the east coast of Africa. In th… read more
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2. Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History
By: Jennifer Wright , None
3.67
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
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3. The Lazarus Project
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was sho… read more
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4. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
By: Valeria Luiselli
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
By: Ben Rawlence
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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6. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
By: None
4.48
Format: None pages, ebook
Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-… read more
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7. Afghanistan
By: Stephen Tanner
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
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"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
9. 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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10. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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11. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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12. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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13. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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14. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Ungrateful Refugee
By: Dina Nayeri
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"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. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more
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17. What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets
By: Mel Laytner
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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18. Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies
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4.46
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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19. The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
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4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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21. The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
By: Dohra Ahmad
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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