In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
By: Judith A. Carney
3.86
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth …
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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
By: Carmen Maria Machado
3.84
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more
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"I'm having a crisis of function."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"None of us will make it to the end."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
2. Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture)
By: Barbara Ransby
4.33
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most in… read more
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- race
- history
- african american
3. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
By: Mary Beth Norton
3.67
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly orig… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
5. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- nonfiction
- food
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6. Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more
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7. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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8. X-Men: Magneto Testament
By: Greg Pak , Carmine Di Giandomenico , Carmine Ci Giandomenico
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Today, the whole world knows him as Magneto, the most radical champion of mutant rights that mankin… read more
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9. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- race
- history
10. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
11. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- race
- history
12. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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13. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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14. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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15. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
By: Alfred W. Crosby , John Robert McNeill
3.91
Format: 434 pages, Paperback
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the mo… read more
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16. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
17. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
By: Rachel Laudan
3.00
Format: None pages, ebook
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from t… read more
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18. A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
By: Marie Brennan
3.84
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the s… read more
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"I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of tim…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"... I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they a…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"It’s—it’s as if there is a dragon inside me. I don’t know how big she is; she may still be growing. But she has wings, and strength, and—and I can’t keep her in a cage. She’ll die. I’ll die. I know i…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
19. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
20. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
21. 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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- nonfiction
- history
22. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
23. Go the Distance
By: Jen Calonita
4.04
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
What if Meg had to become a god? After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship,… read more
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"Don't ever let a man dim your light."-Jen Calonita, Go the Distance
"We imprint the lost on our hearts (pg. 256)"-Jen Calonita, Go the Distance
"I wanted you to be there for me. Not take over (pg. 204)"-Jen Calonita, Go the Distance
"I'll be all right. I'm a big, tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything."-Jen Calonita, Go the Distance
24. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
25. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)
By: Moses Ose Utomi
4.21
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more
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26. The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More (Green Witch Witchcraft Series)
By: Arin Murphy-Hiscock
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
27. Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
By: Paul Freedman
4.00
Format: 424 pages, ebook
Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all,… read more
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- history
- food
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28. Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
By: Grist
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can… read more
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29. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
By: Judith A. Carney
3.86
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth … read more
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- race
- history
- food history
- culinary
- food
- nonfiction
- african american
- nature
- science
30. Might Kindred (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Mónica Gomery
4.47
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The poems of Might Kindred wonder can we belong to one a… read more
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31. Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine (Africa in World History)
By: James C. McCann
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Africa’s art of cooking is a key part of its history. All too often Africa is associated with famin… read more
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