To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
By: Carole Emberton
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the d…
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1. Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
By: Karen L. Cox
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and to… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
2. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
By: Stephanie Storey
4.37
Format: None pages,
From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. L… read more
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3. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
By: Bliss Broyard
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A father's stunning secret sparks a life-transforming journey in this very personal story about rac… read more
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4. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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5. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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6. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
7. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
8. 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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9. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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10. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
By: Laura Dern
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more
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11. Displacement
By: Kiku Hughes
4.29
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more
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"A memory is too powerful a weapon."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
12. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
By: Kate Bowler
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more
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"We live and we are loved and we are gone."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
13. 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
14. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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- biography memoir
15. The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club
By: Julia Bryan Thomas
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For readers of Martha Hall Kelly and Beatriz Williams comes poignant historical fiction that remind… read more
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16. Up Home: One Girl's Journey
By: Ruth J. Simmons
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more
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"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey
17. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
18. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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19. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. The Burning (Kate Burkholder, #16)
By: Linda Castillo
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter … read more
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21. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
23. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
By: Eleanor Janega
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
By: Jamison Shea
3.72
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more
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"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
25. Mother Land
By: Leah Franqui
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of America for Beginners, a wonderfully insightful, witty, and… read more
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"An unattended husband is always a bad thing..."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"...nothing could give her purpose; she had to take it."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"It was so easy to be sure of things when you were twenty."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
"Gossip was like malaria, highly contagious, and eternal in the body."-Leah Franqui, Mother Land
26. Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
By: Joseph McGill Jr.
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sle… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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28. To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
By: Carole Emberton
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the d… read more
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- biography
- history
- civil war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
By: Shannon McKenna Schmidt
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to t… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
30. No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
By: Jacqueline A. Jones
4.02
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteen… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- civil war
31. Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
By: J. Brent Morris
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
