The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
By: Leonard N. Moore
4.18
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black P…
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
By: Timothy B. Tyson
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activ… read more
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3. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.27
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more
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"Partners,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"Trashy people puke,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"Tell me everything it explains,"-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
4. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
5. Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)
By: James S.A. Corey
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her pl… read more
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6. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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7. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Stokely Carmichael
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fig… read more
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8. Negroes with Guns
By: None
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to… read more
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9. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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10. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975
By: William L. Van DeBurg
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of it… read more
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11. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
12. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
By: Johann Hari
4.24
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing t… read more
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"We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"We are now exposed to ten times the amount of artificial light that people were exposed to just fifty years ago."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn’t kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
"In situations of low stress and safety, mind-wandering will be a gift, a pleasure, a creative force. In situations of high stress or danger, mind-wandering will be a torment."-Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
13. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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14. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne
4.34
Format: 612 pages, Hardcover
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a near… read more
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"In America, the Jews sap the very life-blood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel, its armies and its continues aggression against our brothers in the East."-Les Payne, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
15. The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)
By: Sara Desai
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and boyfriend… read more
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"I will never stop loving you. That's why I have to go."-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)
"Life was easier without the messy entanglement of emotions."-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)
"I have a concealed weapon in my pocket I could show you," he whispered. "Don't you dare..."-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)
"How long has it been?" "Ten years, eleven months, thirteen days, thirteen hours, forty-seven minutes, and sixteen seconds."-Sara Desai, The Dating Plan (Marriage Game, #2)
16. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
17. My Monticello
By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a w… read more
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"To me guns meant indiscriminate power, the risk of fatally misjudging someone else's worth."-Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello
18. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By: Matthew Dallek
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more
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19. Icebreaker
By: A.L. Graziadei
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A. L. Graziadei's Icebreaker is a YA debut about two hockey players fighting to be the best—and the… read more
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"I don't wanna be just another one of your former teammates."-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
"I get through the first few weeks of college without dropping out, but that's only because I don't want to deal with Dad whining about it for the next twenty years."-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
"Gdyby @mjames17 dodał sobie te jedenaście punktów do wzrostu, może wtedy bym się przejął.' Siedzę obok niego, podjadam ze wspólnej paczki czipsy solone z octem i odpowiadam: 'Mickey James III @mjames…"-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
20. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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21. In the Blink of an Eye: An Autobiography
By: Abdul-Rauf Mahmoud
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In an autobiography marked by staggering vulnerability, former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf–whose gi… read more
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22. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
By: Corey Robin
4.02
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice eve… read more
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23. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more
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24. The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
By: Leonard N. Moore
4.18
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black P… read more
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