Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
By: Wes Moore
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidescopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through seven characte…
Want to Read $ 11.99"… our fates are profoundly intertwined. We have to take care of one another."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"… our fates are profoundly intertwined. We have to take care of one another."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
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1. Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are
By: Danny Gregory
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru… read more
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2. My Bondage and My Freedom
By: Frederick Douglass , John David Smith
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following … read more
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3. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
By: None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's… read more
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4. The Always War
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a trau… read more
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5. Hope and Other Punchlines
By: Julie Buxbaum
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every othe… read more
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- audiobook
6. Smoke Kings
By: Jahmal Mayfield
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In the vein of Get Out and Razorblade Tears, a feast of noir fiction and probing social commentary … read more
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- race
- african american
7. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
8. Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church
By: Michael J. Kruger
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Are churches looking for the wrong kind of leaders? The last decade has witnessed a rising number o… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
10. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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- audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
11. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
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"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
12. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
By: Jerry Mitchell
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- audiobook
16. 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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- history
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
17. Survivor’s Guilt (Erin McCabe Mysteries #2)
By: Robyn Gigl
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Laura Griffin and Lisa Unger, Attorney and LGBTQ+ activist Robyn Gigl tackles t… read more
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18. The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
By: Chris Wilson
4.62
Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition
The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Mast… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
19. Wildflower: A Memoir
By: Aurora James
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equa… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
20. Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
By: Ioan Grillo
4.22
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands o… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By: Blythe Grossberg
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth b… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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23. My Vanishing Country
By: Bakari Sellers
3.98
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey … read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
24. Fail Until You Don't
By: Bobby Bones
4.02
Format: 224 pages, ebook
#1 New York Times Bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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25. By Way of Sorrow (Erin McCabe Mysteries #1)
By: Robyn Gigl
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a fresh and riveting thriller debut, Robyn Gigl introduces Erin McCabe, a New Jersey criminal de… read more
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26. Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
By: Luma Mufleh
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“[From] an influential educational leader and activist…an impassioned, penetrating critique and ins… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
27. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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- race
- biography
- audiobook
28. Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
By: Wes Moore
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidescopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through seven characte… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- anti racist
- social issues
"… our fates are profoundly intertwined. We have to take care of one another."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"… the criminal justice system affects more than the men whose lives are irrevcocably changed when they encounter the system."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
"The stigma and lifelong negative bias that results from even a fleeting encounter with the criminal justice system is absolutely life changing."-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
29. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
By: Bridgett M. Davis
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-k… read more
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- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
"That was my mother's policy: Feel free, feel welcome. Be happy."-Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
"My mother's message to black and white folks alike was clear: It's nobody's business what I do for my children, nor how I manage to do it."-Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
"She also loved beautiful things, and seems to have embraced early a philosophy penned by the writer Toni Cade Bambara: "Beauty is care, just as ugly is carelessness."-Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
"The word secret is so loaded, suggests its country cousin shame ; but I wasn't ashamed of anything because our family secret wasn't dark and my mother acted neither apologetic nor embarrassed."-Bridgett M. Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
30. It's Elementary
By: Elise Bryant
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too in… read more
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- audiobook
"The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter."-Elise Bryant, It's Elementary
31. When Your Back's Against the Wall: Fame, Football, and Lessons Learned through a Lifetime of Adversity
By: Michael Oher
3.61
Format: 219 pages, Hardcover
The NFL champion whose life inspired the hit movie The Blind Side is back with an inspiring and mot… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
