Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City
By: Michael Boyette
4.15
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.—Li…
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1. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
By: Buddy Levy
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Conquistadorcomes this thrilling account of one of history's greatest … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
3. Black Hawk Down
By: Mark Bowden
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
4. Brown Girl in the Ring
By: Nalo Hopkinson
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
"She's a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us would kill for. I have read everything… read more
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5. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
By: Nicholas Dawidoff
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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7. Magic City
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman … read more
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8. Up from Slavery
By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more
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9. Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
By: Ben Blum
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Audio CD
Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Gamesis a crime story like no other. Alex Blum … read more
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10. Night Shift
By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald
4.04
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more
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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."-Stephen King, Night Shift
"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."-Stephen King, Night Shift
"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"-Stephen King, Night Shift
"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."-Stephen King, Night Shift
11. Different Seasons
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound t… read more
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12. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
By: Marcia Chatelain
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In South Side GirlsMarcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black gir… read more
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13. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
By: Monica Hesse
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more
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14. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
15. Last Summer on State Street
By: Toya Wolfe
4.22
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more
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- historical
16. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
17. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
18. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
19. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
By: Jeff Guinn
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
22. More Than You'll Ever Know
By: Katie Gutierrez
3.73
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
IT WAS A STORY THAT CASSIE BOWMAN COULDN'T RESIST.LORE RIVERA LOVED TWO MEN.UNTIL ONE OF THEM SHOT … read more
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23. Zikora
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
24. Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
By: Tony Horwitz
3.98
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the A… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. "Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done," he said, "She doesn't need you anymore."-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"The only person of color in any of the photographs was a black waiter. Blacks were otherwise barred from the dance hall, as were locals of Mexican descent. In the Texas of that day, laws and customs …"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat'…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
"the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the "self-styled 'Napoleon of the West,"" led to the annexation of Texas, war wi…"-Tony Horwitz, Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land
25. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
By: Robyn Maynard
4.57
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the v… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
26. Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City
By: Michael Boyette
4.15
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.—Li… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. We March At Midnight: A War Memoir
By: Ray McPadden
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What would the war do without me? We March at Midnight is award-winning author Ray McPadden's ch… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. 12 Seconds in the Dark: A Police Officer's Firsthand Account of the Breonna Taylor Raid
By: John Mattingly
4.39
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor, but no one knows t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
29. Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
By: Karla Slocum
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)
By: Clyde Woods
4.55
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
