In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
By: Alicia Puglionesi
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),…
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1. The Rediscovery of North America
By: Barry Lopez
4.11
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came… read more
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2. Native Speaker
By: Chang-rae Lee
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire… read more
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3. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
By: Peter Stark
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast … read more
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4. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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6. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
7. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
8. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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9. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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10. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
By: David I. Kertzer
4.28
Format: 623 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more
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11. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
12. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
13. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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14. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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15. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
By: Patrick Wyman
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more
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16. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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17. The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone fo… read more
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18. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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19. Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
By: Anne F. Hyde
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent … read more
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20. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
By: Nick Estes
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2… read more
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"In this particular era of neoliberal capitalism, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
"Obama spoke of being inspired by the courage of Black civil rights activists and freedom riders, who faced dog attacks, fire hoses, and police brutality, and “who risked everything to advance democra…"-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
21. In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
By: Alicia Puglionesi
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),… read more
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