The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
By: Carl Sandburg
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the beginning of the first chapter The so-called race riots in Chicago during the …
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1. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
By: Tamora Pierce
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm.… read more
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"Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"The thief's fingers touched her chin gently, making her look up."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?"-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
2. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
By: Tamora Pierce
4.27
Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so young Alanna of Treb… read more
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"I believe in deeds, not words."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"She was to behave. No pranks was to be a watchword."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
3. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more
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5. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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- american history
- african american
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. The Midwife's Apprentice
By: Karen Cushman
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England… read more
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9. To Sir, With Love
By: E.R. Braithwaite
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The all-time Classic schoolroom drama - as relevant as today's headlines ... He shamed them, wrestl… read more
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11. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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12. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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13. Catherine, Called Birdy
By: Karen Cushman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry… read more
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14. Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)
By: Vince Flynn
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
Now, with Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee Mik… read more
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15. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By: Gilbert King
3.67
Format: 348 pages, ebook
Devil in the Groveis the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the mos… read more
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16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
17. My Name Is Asher Lev
By: Chaim Potok
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more
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18. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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19. The Wreck of the Golden Mary
By: Charles Dickens
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz," was the foremost English novelist of … read more
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20. The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more
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21. The Story of My Life
By: Helen Keller
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more
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22. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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23. The Island of Dr. Moreau
By: H.G. Wells
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more
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24. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
By: Amanda Gorman
4.56
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more
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"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
25. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
26. 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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"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
27. The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)
By: Jane Pek
3.50
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landsca… read more
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"If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't yet understand."-Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Claudia Lin)
28. The Democrat Party Hates America
By: Mark R. Levin
4.45
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio hos… read more
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29. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
By: Rita Dove
4.08
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral comp… read more
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30. How to Love a Country
By: Richard Blanco
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBT… read more
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"Love is the right to say: I do and I do and I do . . ."-Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country
"Como tú, I want to speak of myself in two languages at once."-Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country
"We can die as valiant as rainbows, and hold light in our lucid bodies like blood."-Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country
"We’re the promise of one people, one breath declaring to one another: I see you. I need you. I am you."-Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country
31. The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
By: Carl Sandburg
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
a selection from the beginning of the first chapter The so-called race riots in Chicago during the … read more
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