This Is All I Got
By: Lauren Sandler
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of a year in the life of a young, homeless single mother, her quest to find stab…
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1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
2. The Optimist's Daughter
By: Eudora Welty
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South a… read more
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3. There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
By: Alex Kotlowitz
4.00
Format: None pages,
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's H… read more
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4. Eat the Buddha
By: Barbara Demick
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more
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5. 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
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
- 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
6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
7. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
8. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
9. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
By: Georgia Pritchett
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflectio… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
By: Sarah Ditum
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
12. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
15. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
By: Maryanne Wolf
3.89
Format: 272 pages, ebook
The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply in… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a con…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political or…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
"It is still a matter of amazement to me that what we know before we read any sentence prepares us to recognize even the visual shapes of the individual words faster and to understand their meanings m…"-Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
16. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
17. An American Summer
By: Alex Kotlowitz
4.33
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
- audiobook
"There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us."-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
". . .you can't talk about death without celebrating life. How amid the devastation, many still manage to stay erect in a world that's slumping around them. How despite the bloodshed, some manage, her…"-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
"The shooting doesn't end. Nor does the grinding poverty. Or the deeply rooted segregation. Or the easy availability of guns. Or the shuttered schools and boarded-up homes. Or the tensions between pol…"-Alex Kotlowitz, An American Summer
18. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. 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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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes
By: Alexa Martin
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two best friends say I do to living together, for better or worse, in this bold women's fiction nov… read more
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- audiobook
21. This Is All I Got
By: Lauren Sandler
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of a year in the life of a young, homeless single mother, her quest to find stab… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- social issues
- sociology
- audiobook
