The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
By: Lawrence T. Brown
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by F…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- history
- politics
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- sociology
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
4. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
By: Tavis Smiley , Wes Moore
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, de… read more
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5. Beneath the Lion's Gaze
By: Maaza Mengiste
4.23
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wa… read more
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6. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
By: Denise Kiernan
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… read more
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7. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
By: None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's… read more
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8. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
9. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
12. The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
By: Rich Villodas
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
During our chaotic times, discover five forgotten values that can spark internal growth and help us… read more
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- nonfiction
"Adam and Eve hid behind a tree, naked and conquered by shame. But Jesus hung on a tree, naked, and conquered shame. In Jesus, shame doesn’t have the last word."-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. Sabbath is a gift that precedes work and enables us to work. (…) As with God’s Grace, rest is never a reward; it’s a gift."-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"The reason we are hospitable is to open our hearts to others in the way that God has opened His heart to us. (...) As the theologian Henri Nouwen said, "Hospitality is not to change people, but to of…"-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"When I get to the portion that says, "Lead us not into temptation," That (...) doesn't mean that God leads us into temptation; rather, (...) It's us essentially saying, "Lord, (...) I'm vulnerable. D…"-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
13. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
14. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
15. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
16. Riot Baby
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more
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- race
"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
17. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
By: Baynard Woods
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), th… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
18. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
19. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
By: Rachel L. Swarns
4.13
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
20. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- sociology
21. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
22. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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23. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
24. The Daughters of Izdihar (The Alamaxa Duology, #1)
By: Hadeer Elsbai
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
<From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wh… read more
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25. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
By: Derecka Purnell
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
- sociology
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
26. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
By: Eliza Griswold
4.26
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how frackin… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
27. Nuclear Family
By: Joseph Han
3.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family livi… read more
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28. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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29. Catalina
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more
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30. The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
By: Lawrence T. Brown
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by F… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
- sociology
31. Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore's Road Wars
By: E. Evans Paull
3.96
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore's 40-year battle over expressway pla… read more
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