Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland
By: Issac J. Bailey
3.91
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. …
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1. Zeitoun
By: Dave Eggers
4.05
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on ter… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Then he got more books. He saved all the books."-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light."-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did American…"-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
"The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything…"-Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
2. The Magician's Elephant
By: Kate DiCamillo , Yoko Tanaka
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpect… read more
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3. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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4. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
By: Carolyn Finney
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreati… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
5. Steal This Book
By: Abbie Hoffman
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation … read more
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6. Other Voices, Other Rooms
By: Truman Capote
3.77
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more
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- american
"Only."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
7. The Dante Club
By: Matthew Pearl
3.50
Format: None pages,
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on … read more
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8. A Kind of Freedom
By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two. Her family… read more
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9. Among the Thugs
By: Bill Buford
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more
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10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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11. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
12. Gender Euphoria
By: Laura Kate Dale
4.11
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
13. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
14. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
15. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
16. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
17. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
18. Finding Langston
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side … read more
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- african american
"It's better to read in the library. Sitting at my favorite table by the window reading and listening to the sound of other folks turning pages makes me feel like I'm in a house full of company I don'…"-Lesa Cline-Ransome, Finding Langston
19. Spells for Lost Things
By: Jenna Evans Welch
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true … read more
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"Families splitting are like earthquakes. Yes, they are happening every day all over the world, but that doesn't make them any less shocking when they happen to you."-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things
"It’s Willow, but like a fairy-tale version of Willow. She’s barefoot and wearing a coral-pink dress that somehow makes everything about her more her. More freckles, more pinkish tones to her skin, ev…"-Jenna Evans Welch, Spells for Lost Things
20. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
By: Philip D'Anieri
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it ev… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- african american
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
22. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
23. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
24. The Monk of Mokha
By: Dave Eggers
4.08
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Fran… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"You're in front of my face," he said every day. It was an old Yemeni expression, hard to translate into English. It was something you said to a loved one, to a friend, while pointing to your own face…"-Dave Eggers, The Monk of Mokha
25. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim
By: Patricia Park
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more
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- race
26. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
By: Robert W. Fieseler
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Eme… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Ruined
By: Sarah Vaughn
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that … read more
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29. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book … read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- sociology
"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"It took centuries for America to hone its instruments of oppression. Every time part of it fell, it simply re-emerged in a more elegant form. Battling racism in this country is like cutting heads off…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"The same year that the Civil War ended, the two states among those with the largest percentage of Black people – Mississippi, with 54 percent in the 1870 census, and South Carolina, with 59 percent –…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
30. Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension
By: Sara K. Ahmed
4.43
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Topics such as race , gender , politics , religion , and sexuality are part of our students' lives,… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
31. Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland
By: Issac J. Bailey
3.91
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. … read more
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- race
- memoir
- school
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- sociology
