Night In The American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
By: Akemi Johnson
4.31
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American V…
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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner
3.94
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more
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- history
- politics
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
By: Douglas Stone , Sheila Heen
4.06
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, ad… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
By: Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Every time i see a butterfly, it reminds me of how precious life can truly be. To be able to turn from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly and fly away so freely and gracefully wherever she may …"-Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
4. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
By: Charles Duhigg
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing howyou th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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7. Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
By: Edward D. Hess , None
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Humility Is the New Smart Your job is at risk--if not now, then soon. We are on the leading edge of… read more
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8. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more
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9. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
By: Vicki Myron , Bret Witter
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for … read more
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10. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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- history
- asia
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
11. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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12. Goodbye, Vitamin
By: Rachel Khong
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more
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13. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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14. The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
By: John "Chick" Donohue
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You wi… read more
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- history
- military fiction
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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- audiobook
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
16. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By: Susan J. Eischeid
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
- audiobook
17. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
By: Ali Abdaal
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
19. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
20. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
21. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
22. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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- audiobook
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
23. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
24. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. PlantYou: 140+ Ridiculously Easy, Amazingly Delicious Plant-Based Oil-Free Recipes
By: Carleigh Bodrug
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Plant-based eating doesn't have to be complicated! The delicious … read more
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- nonfiction
26. Siren Queen
By: Nghi Vo
3.68
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more
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"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
27. In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
By: Lauren Graham
3.81
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Don't be perfect, just be DONE!"-Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
"Keep finding the JOY in what you're doing, especially when the joy is not finding you"-Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
"Your job doesn’t define you—your bravery and kindness and gratitude do. Even without any “big"-Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
"In conclusion, don’t worry about it. You already have The Most. And you’re already one of The Best."-Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
28. God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
By: Lawrence Wright
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tow… read more
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- cultural
- american
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In Austin, we don't have such high expectations of chihuahuas."-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
"In every generation until mine, most of humanity lived with the night sky. As people began moving into cities and using more illumination, the sky gradually disappeared. There must be a corresponding…"-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
"With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. "I'm EMBARRASSED," Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; "Texas #2 in nation fo…"-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
"South of Marfa is the road to Big Bend, one of the least visited national parks in the country, and also one of the most glorious. On the way, there is a pleasant resort, Cibolo Creek Ranch, built ar…"-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
29. Goddess of the River
By: Vaishnavi Patel
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more
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30. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Miki Brina
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- japan
- audiobook
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
31. Night In The American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa
By: Akemi Johnson
4.31
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American V… read more
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