The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
By: Anya Kamenetz
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives—and how our country has…
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1. The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
By: Jay Snyder , Oliver Wyman , Lauren Fortgang , Kevin T. Collins , None , Robert Fass , Jon Stewart , Chris Lutkin
4.13
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by i… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. 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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- audiobook
"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
3. 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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- social science
- history
- politics
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- 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
4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- education
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
5. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- education
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6. Raising Lazarus
By: Beth Macy
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more
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- history
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- sociology
- audiobook
7. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
8. Duel
By: Jessixa Bagley
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rivalry between sisters culminates in a fencing duel in this funny and emotional debut graphic no… read more
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9. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
By: Anupam B. Jena
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more
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10. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot
By: Élodie Durand
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more
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11. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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- history
- health
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
12. Wordy Birdy
By: Tammi Sauer
3.82
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Meet Wordy Birdy, a very chatty bird who talks WAY more than she listens! Wordy Birdy LOVES to t… read more
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13. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Indelible and extraordinary.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Rev… read more
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- parenting
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- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
15. 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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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
16. How to Raise an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist… read more
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- parenting
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"To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is th…"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
"Instead of calling these IB and AP courses "gifted" classes, I call them privileged classes. The students in the classes are privileged. Colleges give preferential treatment to students who take thes…"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist
17. Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
By: Alexandra Petri
3.67
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US History is the fake textbook … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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- history
- politics
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
19. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
20. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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21. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
22. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
By: Natalie Wexler
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle o… read more
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- education
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23. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
By: Florence Williams
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects t… read more
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"I didn’t yet realize it was okay to be broken, that it was even, perhaps, essential to becoming a more porous animal capable of far more real love than I had known was possible. It would still take s…"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
"These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain associated with processing sensory and motor information. …"-Florence Williams, Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
24. True Crime Case Histories - Volume 4: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories
By: Jason Neal
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
12 True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem Fourth Book of the True Crime Case Histories Series (20… read more
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25. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
By: Will Bunch
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- education
- sociology
- audiobook
26. Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School
By: Michelle Icard
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fourteen essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for… read more
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- education
- audiobook
27. The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now
By: Anya Kamenetz
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An NPR education reporter shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives—and how our country has… read more
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- education
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28. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more
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- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!)
By: Barry Wittenstein
4.09
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Did you know Band-Aids were invented by accident?! And that they weren't mass-produced until the Bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
By: Alec MacGillis
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cit… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
31. Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success
By: Shalini Shankar
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generati… read more
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