Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
By: Thomas J. Ward
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mo…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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3. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
4. From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
By: Endesha Ida Mae Holland
2.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
After being raped by a white employer at the age of 11, Holland became a rebel, turning to prostitu… read more
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5. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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6. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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7. Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
By: John Scalzi
4.24
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined t… read more
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"We don’t get to choose our battles."-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
8. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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9. 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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"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
10. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
11. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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12. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
13. Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
By: Thomas J. Ward
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mo… read more
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