Unrequited Toil (Cambridge Essential Histories)
By: Calvin Schermerhorn
3.83
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an …
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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8. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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9. The One and Only Ivan
By: Katherine Applegate , Patricia Castelao
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accu… read more
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10. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more
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11. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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12. The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
By: Eric Rauchway
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the -A… read more
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13. The Phantom Tollbooth
By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster
4.20
Format: 24 pages,
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more
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14. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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15. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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17. 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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18. If You Could See the Sun
By: Ann Liang
4.02
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s… read more
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"Yeah."-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun
"Hmph,"-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun
"Yan Yan!"-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun
"What your mama always say? If you not good person, you're nothing. Nothing."-Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun
19. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
20. Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Nott the Brave
By: Sam Maggs
4.25
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
When you become that which you fear most, how do you carry on? Veth Brenatto doesn't have an ex… read more
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21. Film for Her
By: Orion Carloto
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her… read more
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"I close my eyes just enough to let go of the suffering and allow myself this moment to feel everything."-Orion Carloto, Film for Her
22. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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24. American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)
By: Eric Foner
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarsh… read more
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25. Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone
By: Chris "Doc" Wyatt
4.39
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt, writers for the Amazon Original animated series Critical Role: T… read more
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26. Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett
By: Mae Catt
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Beauregard’s backstory will explore her pre-Mighty Nein time with the order of monks known as the C… read more
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27. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
By: Margaret O'Mara
3.95
Format: 512 pages, ebook
One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley!The true, behind-the-scenes history of the … read more
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28. Unrequited Toil (Cambridge Essential Histories)
By: Calvin Schermerhorn
3.83
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an … read more
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29. Historiography: An Introductory Guide
By: Eileen Cheng
3.52
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians… read more
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30. Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement
By: Wendy L. Wall
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national un… read more
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31. American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Heather Andrea Williams
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a cap… read more
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