Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
By: Alvin Hall
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with …
Want to Read $ 12.99"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"Under Jim Crow, Black Codes harshly restricted what people of color could do, In much of the country, Black people were prevented from voting, serving on juries, running for office, or defending their rights in court. They worked under systems of labor like sharecropping that were designed to keep them in poverty."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
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1. Penguin Lost
By: Andrey Kurkov
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Viktor - last seen in Death and the Penguinfleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight bo… read more
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3. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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5. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
6. The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Perfect for Fall 2024, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal
By: Andrew Friedman
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that com… read more
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7. 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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8. Founding Mothers
By: Cokie Roberts
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mo… read more
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9. The Spoiled Heart
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more
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10. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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11. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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12. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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13. Remember
By: Joy Harjo
4.42
Format: 40 pages, None
Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, … read more
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14. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By: Ken Jennings
3.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more
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15. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
By: Blythe Roberson
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more
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"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
16. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
By: Nick Tabor
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from tho… read more
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17. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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18. I Lived Inside a Whale
By: Xin Li
4.35
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Olive Jeffers and the Fan Brothers, this stunningly illustrated, whimsical picture book… read more
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19. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
By: Anthony Almojera
3.84
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more
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20. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
By: Lisa Belkin
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more
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21. Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
By: Mattie Kahn
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far" Vogue's " Best Books of 2023 (So Far)" … read more
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22. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
By: Scott C. Johnson
3.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more
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23. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more
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24. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
By: Donald Yacovone
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more
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25. What Fire Brings
By: Rachel Howzell Hall
3.51
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
A writer’s search for her missing friend becomes a real-life thriller in a twisting novel of suspen… read more
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26. Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
By: Alvin Hall
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"The farther south they drove, the more limiting and repressive the rules became."-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"Under Jim Crow, Black Codes harshly restricted what people of color could do, In much of the country, Black people were prevented from voting, serving on juries, running for office, or defending thei…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"...Jim Crow was the American equivalent of South African apartheid and the racial laws passed in Germany under the Nazi regime of the 1930s. And these similarities are not merely coincidental. Histor…"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
"When the laws changed, what do you suppose happened to the vehement and the violent? Do you believe their opinions of Black people changed? Do you think they decided they had been wrong and adjusted …"-Alvin Hall, Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
27. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
28. Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
By: Margot Mifflin
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) c… read more
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29. Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
By: Kenya Hunt
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, bu… read more
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30. The National Road
By: Tom Zoellner
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land―in every direction―could be fasten… read more
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31. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
By: Michelle T. King
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more
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