The Crusade of Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954
By: Foote
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The stirring story of the refor…
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1. The Storyteller
By: Jodi Picoult
4.30
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing t… read more
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"The only monsters I have ever known were men."-Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
"But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices."-Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
"The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story"-Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
"Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it."-Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
2. The Rules Do Not Apply
By: Ariel Levy
3.13
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorkerwriter Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 201… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By: Sherman Alexie , Ellen Forney
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the… read more
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4. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
By: Lisa See
4.42
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual … read more
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5. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
By: Melody Moezzi
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences … read more
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6. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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7. The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
By: Angelo E. Volandes
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two third… read more
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8. The Night of the Gun
By: David Carr
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mi… read more
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9. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
10. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- nonfiction
11. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
12. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
13. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
16. Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
By: Christine Kenneally
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
17. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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18. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
19. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
20. Peach Blossom Spring
By: Melissa Fu
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Bl… read more
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"What are you scared of?"-Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring
21. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
By: Christie Tate
3.81
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer w… read more
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"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
22. The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The… read more
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- nonfiction
"These cultural generalizations, perhaps correctly, reduce the history of immigration to a binary. When immigrants come into this country, whether they join the labor force, like the Irish, Mexicans, …"-Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans
23. Finding Grace
By: Maren Cooper
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Charles Booker is thrilled to start married life in Two Harbors, Minnesota, with his ambitious orni… read more
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24. The Crusade of Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954
By: Foote
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The stirring story of the refor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
