This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
By: Nigel Poor
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc…
Want to Read $ 4.99"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do that. So I'd have to be a vegetarian dragon; a thin dragon, because I'd spend a lot of time looking for food. That's a ton of carrots, apples, oranges...Unless I was a tiny, baby dragon. Then I'd just need, like, a little slice of cheese."-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do that. So I'd have to be a vegetarian dragon; a thin dragon, because I'd spend a lot of time looking for food. That's a ton of carrots, apples, oranges...Unless I was a tiny, baby dragon. Then I'd just need, like, a little slice of cheese."-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
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1. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
By: Stephen Kessler , Pablo Neruda , Alastair Reid , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Stephen Mitchell , Forrest Gander , Robert Hass , Mark Eisner , Jack Hirschman , John Felstiner
4.42
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of po… read more
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"Ours is a lank country and on the naked edge of her knife our frail flag burns."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"el verbo es origen y vierte vida: es sangre, es la sangre que expresa su substancia y está dispuesto así su desarrollo"-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
2. A Thousand Lives
By: Julia Scheeres
4.01
Format: 175 pages,
"I love socialism, and I'm willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I'd take a thousand with… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
3. In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
By: Brittney Griner , Sue Hovey
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner has been shatte… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
5. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- 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
6. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
7. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
8. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
9. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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- audiobook
10. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
11. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- social justice
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
12. Eyeliner: A Cultural History
By: Zahra Hankir
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
13. Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
By: Gordon H. Chang
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern A… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
By: Aisha Harris
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces of… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
By: Alec Karakatsanis
4.39
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society’s normalization of t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
16. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
By: Nigel Poor
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do …"-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
17. Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
By: Maia Kobabe
4.47
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
By: Roberto Lovato
4.28
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerationa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
19. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
By: Daniel Genis
3.62
Format: None pages, None
A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" … read more
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- biography
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- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It is easy not to steal when one isn’t hungry."-Daniel Genis, Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
20. The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
By: Gary Kamiya
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
21. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
By: Jon M. Chu
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and… read more
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