Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh…
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. The Wind's Twelve Quarters
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.06
Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man te… read more
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"El ocio es un estado natural y bendito"."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
"Of course I didn't read James and sit down and say, Now I'll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
3. Black Hawk: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By: Black Hawk , Donald Jackson
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheek… read more
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- 19th century
- nonfiction
- history
4. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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6. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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7. The Six Wives of Henry VIII
By: Alison Weir
4.50
Format: None pages,
'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more
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8. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
By: Hugh Brewster
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyagetakes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic's elegant private suites… read more
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9. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
By: Eric Foner , Joshua Brown
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths a… read more
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10. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
11. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war--the military fight, wartime struggle… read more
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- 19th century
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
12. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
- history
13. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
By: Mallory O'Meara
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Having a new tattoo really sucks,"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I st…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water. It’s on the d…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
14. Huda F Cares?
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more
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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
15. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
16. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
17. Marmee
By: Sarah Miller
4.25
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, fro… read more
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"Waking up every day and remembering Papa's gone to the front is like biting into a bonbon with nothing in the center."-Sarah Miller, Marmee
"I have been wrong to hide my temper so completely. All this time I have been inadvertently teaching my girls that goodness is the absence of faults. An unattainable goal that can only lead to a lifet…"-Sarah Miller, Marmee
18. A Dress of Violet Taffeta
By: Tessa Arlen
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of Belle Epoque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, … read more
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- fashion
19. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
20. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
- history
21. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. The Monsters We Defy
By: Leslye Penelope
4.12
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to … read more
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23. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- history
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
24. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
- history
25. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
By: Keith Houston
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh… read more
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- american history
- history
- 19th century
- nonfiction
- fashion
27. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
28. Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil… read more
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- fashion
- nonfiction
- history
29. Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939 (The Mexican Experience)
By: Ageeth Sluis
4.31
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of fema… read more
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30. Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
By: Andrea Feeser
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant w… read more
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