State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
By: William Adolphus Wheeler
3.96
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The story of MS-13 and its American roots One of President Donald Trump’s favorite rhetorical moti…
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1. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
2. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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3. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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4. The Country Between Us
By: Carolyn Forché
4.67
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Forche worked as a journalist and wa… read more
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5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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6. The Massacre at El Mozote
By: Mark Danner
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion ente… read more
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7. Salvador
By: Joan Didion
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its … read more
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8. The Interpretation of Cultures
By: Clifford Geertz
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far bey… read more
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9. The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
3.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more
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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."-John Steinbeck, The Pearl
10. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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11. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
12. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
13. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
By: Rax King
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more
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14. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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- crime
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"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
15. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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17. Sea Prayer
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.10
Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition
A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more
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"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer
18. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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19. Sink: A Memoir
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous h… read more
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20. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more
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"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
21. A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch (Glimmer Falls, #2)
By: Sarah Hawley
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Calladia Cunnington curses the day she met Astaroth the demon, but when he shows up memoryless, why… read more
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22. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
23. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
By: Carolyn Forché
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire What You Have… read more
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"...it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but wi…"-Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
24. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more
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25. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more
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26. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
By: Chun Han Wong
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more
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27. The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
By: Chapo Trap House
3.92
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Instant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker … read more
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"The ugly truth is that no employer hires anyone unless they can extract more value from them than they have to pay out in wages and benefits."-Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
"Finally, as 9/11 fell on December 7, 1941, America entered World War II, and wouldn’t you know it, the US actually recovered from the Depression. It turned out that with state control of production a…"-Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
28. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
By: Augustine Sedgewick
3.59
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable p… read more
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"Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
"...means the destruction of our nation just as surely as it meant the destruction of Egypt and Rome and Spain and Germany and all the other nations who came to measure their greatness by their materi…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
29. Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
By: Aviva Chomsky
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Restores the region's fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and con… read more
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"Very few US Americans can name a single political leader in Central America. We have the privilege of “forgetting"-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"Paradoxically, they needed Indians to be Indians at the same time they needed to define all that was Indian as inferior and in need of Spanish domination."-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"For intellectuals and elites, invisibilizing and forgetting are a way of creating blissful ignorance that allows them to enjoy their privilege without acknowledging its basis in exploitation. Forgett…"-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"Large-scale Central American migration to the United States dates to the civil wars of the 1980s and came primarily from El Salvador and Guatemala. Most came fleeing political violence, and their pre…"-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
30. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
By: Roberto Lovato
4.28
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerationa… read more
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"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
31. State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
By: William Adolphus Wheeler
3.96
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The story of MS-13 and its American roots One of President Donald Trump’s favorite rhetorical moti… read more
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