The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.21
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis…
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1. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By: Brittney Cooper
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more
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2. Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)
By: Armistead Maupin
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and lau… read more
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3. The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)
By: Armistead Maupin
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales… read more
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4. Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)
By: Armistead Maupin
2.78
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the Cityseri… read more
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5. Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Significant Others, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the Tales of the City saga, is a cunningl… read more
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6. Further Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #3)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic seque… read more
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7. More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the Cityrolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliv… read more
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8. Sure of You (Tales of the City, #6)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern l… read more
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9. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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10. Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.18
Format: 578 pages,
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pu… read more
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11. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
By: Kelly Vincent
3.51
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Imposter syndrome—the irrational self-doubt we feel despite obvious success—can strike at any time,… read more
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12. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
14. Punch Me Up to the Gods
By: Brian Broome
4.33
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing… read more
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"My second baby was a girl. Cutest thing you ever did see. He was happy with a girl. His first born. He liked havin’ a girl. He fell in love with her and played with her and praised her every move. Se…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
"I think about my father and the clarity that comes with age tells me that he must have suffered... He was anxious. He was lonely. And he was insecure. There is no thing on earth more dangerous than a…"-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
15. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- politics
- gender
- psychology
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
16. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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17. Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
By: Peggy Orenstein
4.24
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daugh… read more
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"Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men."-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"They [boys] are particularly eager to have their fathers talk to them about their own experience with sex, love, even regret."-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?"-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor "tiny spiritual guides sent to newly sho…"-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
18. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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19. 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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20. After Oz
By: Gordon McAlpine
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more
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21. The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.21
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis… read more
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