Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
By: Pauli Murray
4.60
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, …
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1. Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic Psalter: Morning and Night Prayer
By: John Philip Newell , Tobi Kahn
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
A new American edition of John Philip Newell's adored and transformative prayerbook, Sounds of the … read more
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2. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more
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3. Inwardly Digest: The Prayer Book as Guide to a Spiritual Life
By: Derek A. Olsen
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
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4. Sag Harbor
By: Colson Whitehead
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America… read more
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5. Coat of Many Colors
By: Dolly Parton , Judith Sutton
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Winter is coming to Tennessee and there's no money to buy a new coat, so a little girl's mama sews … read more
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6. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more
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7. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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8. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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9. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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10. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
11. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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12. 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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"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
13. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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14. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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- african american
15. She Memes Well
By: Quinta Brunson
4.07
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary ) comes a deep… read more
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16. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
17. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
By: Sue Burke
3.91
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more
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"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
18. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
By: Omid Scobie
3.31
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more
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"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
19. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By: Maria Smilios
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more
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"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
20. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
21. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
22. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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23. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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24. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
25. The High Sierra: A Love Story
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.27
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more
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26. Interference (Semiosis, #2)
By: Sue Burke
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to Sue Burke's sweeping SF epic debut, Semiosis, continues in Interference as the coloni… read more
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27. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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28. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
By: Pauli Murray
4.60
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, … read more
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- african american
29. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By: Rebecca Nagle
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more
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30. On Freedom
By: Timothy Snyder
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more
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31. Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History (Graphic Novel)
By: C.L.R. James
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A STIRRING GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION This impassioned and beautifully drawn book dra… read more
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