American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
By: Sean M. Kelley
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nat…
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1. The Slave Ship: A Human History
By: Marcus Rediker
4.73
Format: None pages,
The missing link in the chain of American slavery For three centuries slave ships carted millions o… read more
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2. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
4. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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5. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
6. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
7. A History of Present Illness
By: Anna DeForest
3.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A novel of meticulous brevity and a tone and vision all its own, transmuting the practice of medici… read more
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8. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
9. American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
By: Sean M. Kelley
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nat… read more
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- history
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