Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
By: Catherine McNeur
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have bee…
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1. When You Reach Me
By: Rebecca Stead
4.08
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody w… read more
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"What's the burn scale?"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"We have lunch at ten-forty-five,"-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
"She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school."-Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
2. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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3. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
By: Marsha L. Weisiger
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country" offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Dine)… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
4. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- american history
- history
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- nature
5. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
By: Thomas J. Sugrue
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis.… read more
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- urban studies
- history
- nonfiction
6. Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue … read more
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7. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution
By: Gary B. Nash
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Urban Crucibleboldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Thr… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- school
10. A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
By: Paul E. Johnson
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millenniumremains a landmark work--br… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- school
11. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
12. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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- american history
- history
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13. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
By: Matthew Klingle
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is … read more
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- urban studies
- nonfiction
- history
14. Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
By: Karl Jacoby
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
15. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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16. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
By: Jill Lepore
3.50
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, … read more
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- new york
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
17. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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18. Pinball, 1973 (The Rat, #2)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelanc… read more
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19. 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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20. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
21. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
22. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
By: Daniel Quinn
4.01
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more
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- school
"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
23. 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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- history
"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
24. Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
By: Andy Horowitz
4.26
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executive… read more
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25. The Crane Husband
By: Kelly Barnhill
3.88
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more
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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband
26. People From My Neighbourhood
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.53
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more
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"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
27. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
By: Tiya Miles
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
28. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Writing History in the Global Era
By: Lynn Hunt
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and… read more
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- history
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30. Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
By: Catherine McNeur
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have bee… read more
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- american history
- history
- school
- urban studies
- nonfiction
- nature
31. A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge Concise Histories)
By: Daniel Woolf
3.53
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
This short history of history is an ideal introduction for those studying or teaching the subject a… read more
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- nonfiction
- school
