Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
By: Ben Jealous
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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1. Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks, #1)
By: Miranda James
3.81
Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback
There's a cat in the stacks... ...and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth… read more
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2. Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
By: Barry M. Prizant , Tom Fields-Meyer
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Essential reading for any parent, teacher, therapist, or caregiver of a person with autism: a groun… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Book of Ruth
By: Jane Hamilton
3.37
Format: 120 pages,
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confron… read more
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4. Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs, #10)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie Dobbs into a dangerous yet fascinating world and take… read more
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5. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
By: Laura Kaplan
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more
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6. In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs, #13)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.08
Format: 432 pages, ebook
"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." --Maureen Corr… read more
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7. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
8. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
9. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
10. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
11. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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12. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
13. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
14. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. Summer on Sag Harbor
By: Sunny Hostin
3.90
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor affectionately known as SANS—Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninev… read more
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16. Summer on Highland Beach (Summer Beach, #3)
By: Sunny Hostin
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach… read more
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17. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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18. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- anti racist
"It's not white people's job to police the feelings of black people, but as fellow human beings, please rant black people the right to the full gamut of emotions regarding their wounds."-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
"White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the diffic…"-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
19. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By: Adam Shatz
4.24
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
22. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoir-in-essays about g… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"No, but has the tyranny of facts ever stopped me before? Again, no."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"What is more romantic than the sudden revelation of the thing you didn't even dare to hope for?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
23. To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.22
Format: 352 pages, ebook
During the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the … read more
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- historical
"There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere—it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel."-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
"And I know only too well how time can cast a sort of skin over an event—a membrane that gets thicker until a point where broaching the subject is all but impossible, even when you think you can face …"-Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
24. The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
2.96
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking … read more
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25. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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- historical
26. We Are All So Good at Smiling
By: Amber McBride
3.88
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more
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"Sorrow is no one's fault."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"The only way out is through."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
27. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
By: Will Jawando
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A call to action and a narrative that runs counter to every racist stereotype that thwarts the live… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
28. What You Leave Behind
By: Wanda M. Morris
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who… read more
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29. Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing
By: Ben Jealous
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New York Times bests… read more
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- memoir
- historical
- nonfiction
- anti racist
30. The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
By: Philip Bump
3.61
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. The All-American
By: Joe Milan Jr.
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-Ameri… read more
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