Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
By: Yusef Salaam
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison …
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1. Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Ann Shen Legendary Ladies Collection)
By: Ann Shen
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovel… read more
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2. Freaky Friday
By: Mary Rodgers
3.62
Format: None pages,
Annabel thinks her mom has the best life. If she were a grown-up, she could do whatever she wanted!… read more
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3. Fall From Grace (Blaine Trilogy, #1)
By: Richard North Patterson
3.85
Format: 96 pages,
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4. Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper, #1)
By: Linda Fairstein
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write… read more
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5. Punching the Air
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exo… read more
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"They call it free time and it's the biggest lie because we are still here"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"This is the first time my feet are bound where the fuck am I supposed to run anyway"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"Blank Canvas I have a crayon and paper I didn't know that I could hold this little bit of freedom in my hands"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
"They believed those lies about me and made themselves a whole other boy in their minds and replaced me with him"-Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air
6. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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7. Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
By: David Frum
3.96
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy poses the essential question facing America to… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
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"We want things to return to normal, back to a world in which we do not have to waste time rebutting demented conspiracy theories and fact-checking farcical lies every single day. We want a government…"-David Frum, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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9. 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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10. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
11. The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
By: Anita Phillips
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Too often we’ve been taught to view our … read more
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12. All-American Muslim Girl
By: Nadine Jolie Courtney
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Allie Abraham has it all going for her—she's a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-kn… read more
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- audiobook
"I'm still a Muslim. And I'm still good."-Nadine Jolie Courtney, All-American Muslim Girl
"It might be awkward and difficult at first, but if you're willing to take the risk, the rewards are beyond your wildest dreams"-Nadine Jolie Courtney, All-American Muslim Girl
13. After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
By: Jessica Goudeau
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Time… read more
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14. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
By: M. Chris Fabricant
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more
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15. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
By: Miles Taylor
4.44
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more
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16. Something Read, Something Dead (Lighthouse Library Mystery, #5)
By: Eva Gates
4.03
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
Dark deeds in the Lighthouse Library threaten to send Lucy Richardson's soon-to-be-wed cousin Josie… read more
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17. My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
By: Ian Manuel
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields [judges, prosecuto… read more
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18. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more
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19. Stray City
By: Chelsey Johnson
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the… read more
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"Why should citizenship depend on one exclusive form of a relationship? What about love between friends, community, love of work?"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed."-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"Maybe Flynn at thirty was still becoming, I realized. Maybe the Flynn I loved was on the way out. Or maybe the Flynn. I loved hadn't been around for some time now. It was easy to mistake proximity fo…"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
"I seldom even thought of myself as woman or girl, just person. Just human. I only became girl or woman when men walked into the room or I walked into theirs, when that gaze hit me like a hot breath. …"-Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
20. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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21. The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
By: Chris Wilson
4.62
Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition
The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Mast… read more
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22. My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
By: Ibi Zoboi
3.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middle-grade debut with an unforgettable character… read more
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23. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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24. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
25. Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
By: Yusef Salaam
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison … read more
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- true crime
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- biography memoir
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- social justice
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- audiobook
"No matter what life has taken you through...try to live full and die empty."-Yusef Salaam, Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
26. What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry
By: Stephanie Saldana
4.45
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
Eggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their hom… read more
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27. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
By: Ilhan Omar
4.26
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more
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- audiobook
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
28. American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence (School Safety, Violence in Society)
By: Fred Guttenberg
4.05
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
"Don't tell me there's no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland." ― Fred Guttenberg #… read more
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29. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By: Rebecca Nagle
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more
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- true crime
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- social justice
- audiobook
30. Assessing Students, Not Standards: Begin With What Matters Most
By: Lee Ann Jung
4.33
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
See beyond content standards to the broader context of life-changing skills. The standards-based l… read more
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