Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
By: Chris Hamby
4.31
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Other America: Poverty in the United States
By: Michael Harrington , Irving Howe
4.05
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
3. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
By: Robert K. Massie
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more
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5. Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
By: The Boston Globe
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of t… read more
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6. The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers
By: Joseph Hickman
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with sev… read more
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7. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
By: Candice Millard
3.55
Format: None pages, Paperback
From New York Timesbestselling author of Destiny of the Republicand The River of Doubt, a thrilling… read more
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8. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
By: Sheri Fink
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstruc… read more
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9. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- environment
- audiobook
10. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
12. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
14. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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- audiobook
15. Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
By: Catherine Coleman Flowers
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The MacArthur grant–winning “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” tells the riveting story of the environment… read more
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- history
- politics
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- social justice
- environment
16. We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
By: Eric Garcia
4.14
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doc… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
17. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
"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
18. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us
By: Chimene Suleyman
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Where the Dead Sit Talking
By: Brandon Hobson
3.35
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Best book of 2018: Kirkus, Southern Living, and NPR Code Switch Read… read more
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21. What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
By: Michael Kazin
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Kirkus Reviews ' ten best US history books of 2… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
By: David Enrich
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers c… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
- audiobook
"On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had …"-David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
23. Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
By: Alan Maimon
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfec… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
24. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
By: Eric Eyre
4.07
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
An investigation into the corporate and governmental greed that pumped millions of pain pills into … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- journalism
- audiobook
25. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
By: Steven Stoll
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia--among the most storied and yet least… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
26. Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
By: Mark A. Bradley
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pe… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- labor
- audiobook
27. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
By: Chris Hamby
4.31
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, u… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- journalism
- labor
- social issues
- sociology
- environment
- audiobook
28. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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29. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
30. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
