Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
By: Ashanté M. Reese
4.33
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urba…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
By: Richard R. Wilk
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation sin… read more
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- food
- anthropology
5. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more
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7. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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8. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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9. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
10. The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
By: Ángela García
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The Pastoral Clinictakes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape--northern New… read more
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11. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.19
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more
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"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
12. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
13. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
By: Jason De León
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
- anthropology
14. The Beauty of Your Face
By: Sahar Mustafah
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more
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"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face
15. Thicker than Water: A Memoir
By: Kerry Washington
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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- nonfiction
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
17. 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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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
18. Monogamy
By: Sue Miller
3.51
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness an… read more
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19. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
20. Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
By: Patrick Sharkey
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Over the past two decades, American cities have experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, d… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
21. Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
By: Chris Myers Asch
4.56
Format: 609 pages, Hardcover
MP3 CD Format Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-c… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
22. Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
By: Ashanté M. Reese
4.33
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urba… read more
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- race
- history
- ethnography
- food
- nonfiction
- social justice
- urban planning
- anti racist
- environment
- anthropology
23. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more
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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
24. Twilight Territory
By: Andrew X. Pham
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Japanese-occupied Vietnam,… read more
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25. Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Monica M. White
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in th… read more
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- race
- history
- food
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- environment
26. Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
By: Leah Penniman
4.66
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Recipient of the 28th Heinz Awards for the Leah Penniman James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2… read more
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- race
- history
- food
- nonfiction
- social justice
- environment
27. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
By: Joseph C Ewoodzie
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee • Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Associat… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- social justice
28. A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast (Indigenous Confluences)
By: Charlotte Coté
4.54
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (uumaas) brings soc… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
29. The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (Food, Health, and the Environment)
By: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
3.94
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners tha… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
30. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America
By: Elizabeth Zanoni
3.75
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home. Merchants … read more
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