Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
By: Albert Woodfox
4.42
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary con…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night living your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night loving your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night living your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down every night loving your courage. When I am in need of purpose of focus I thank your courage. Courage is not an ongoing thing that you walk around feeling ever day. Like anything in life, it comes and goes with the challenges we meet every day of our lives!"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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1. The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
By: Jeff Benedict , Armen Keteyian
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE … read more
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"Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisi…"-Jeff Benedict, The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
2. Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
By: Kathleen Collins
3.84
Format: 192 pages, ebook
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3. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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4. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
4.44
Format: None pages, ebook
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a … read more
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5. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
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6. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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7. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
By: Ellen Ullman
3.49
Format: 465 pages,
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8. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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10. American Girls
By: Jessica Roy
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more
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11. Big Black: Stand at Attica
By: Frank "Big Black" Smith
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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12. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
By: Carolyn Forché
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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"...it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but wi…"-Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
13. Oscar: A Life
By: Matthew Sturgis
4.29
Format: 740 pages, Hardcover
The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling… read more
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14. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
By: Dorothy Wickenden
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
"...there never was a man whose good temper was proof against a missing button. [Lazette Miller Worden, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright, in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
15. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book … read more
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16. Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
By: Albert Woodfox
4.42
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
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"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down e…"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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17. The Last Ocean: A Journey through Memory and Forgetting
By: Nicci Gerrard
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own term… read more
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18. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
By: Adam Winkler
4.16
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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19. Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
By: Elliot Ackerman
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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20. What Napoleon Could Not Do
By: D.K. Nnuro
3.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this grip… read more
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21. Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
By: Taylor Pendergrass
4.35
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
This compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confi… read more
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