The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
By: John Washington
4.55
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsA…
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1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more
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"I have always disapproved of murder."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
2. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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3. Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
By: Peter Orner , Luis Alberto Urrea , Annie Holmes , Tom Andes , None , None , None , None , None
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Underground Americatells the stories of men and women who have come to the United States seeking a … read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
4. Signs Preceding the End of the World
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as the… read more
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5. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.80
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more
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"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, i… read more
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7. Provenance (Imperial Radch)
By: Ann Leckie
3.84
Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition
Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more
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"Diplomat does not mean nice,"-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)
8. Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
By: Ted Conover
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships… read more
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9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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10. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
11. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.39
Format: 759 pages, Paperback
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more
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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
12. The Raven Tower
By: Ann Leckie
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more
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"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
13. Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
By: Paul Farmer
4.03
Format: 654 pages, Hardcover
A true life medical thriller . . . If what we want in this moment is insight from this brilliant do… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
14. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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- history
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15. Beasts of a Little Land
By: Juhea Kim
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more
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"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
16. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil Wa… read more
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17. Medusa's Sisters
By: Lauren J.A. Bear
4.18
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more
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"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters
18. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
By: Rachel Maddow
4.35
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of M… read more
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"A trained Soviet KGB operative then heading its successor outfit, the FSB, Putin had done the sitting Russian president the memorable favor of successfully derailing the criminal investigation into t…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
"It's easy to look back on those strange days at the end of September 2003 and identify the warnings signs about Putin and Russia that American policy makers missed. But it would be unfair to them, an…"-Rachel Maddow, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
19. 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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20. A Very Large Expanse of Sea
By: Tahereh Mafi
4.08
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful,… read more
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"Ocean, azizam,"-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
"How can you say that?"-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
"I could no longer distinguish people from monsters"-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
"My parents loved us but I wasn't always sure they liked us."-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
21. Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World
By: Todd Miller
4.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad-and essentially expanding its borders in … read more
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22. The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond
By: John Washington
4.55
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsA… read more
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- politics
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- social justice
