Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
By: Aomar Boum
3.75
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the H…
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1. We Are On Our Own
By: Miriam Katin
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong str… read more
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- graphic novels
- history
- nonfiction
- holocaust
2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
By: Trevor R. Getz , Liz Clarke
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on a… read more
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- graphic novels
- history
- nonfiction
4. Baddawi
By: Leila Abdelrazaq
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised i… read more
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- graphic novels
- history
- nonfiction
5. East of Berlin
By: Hannah Moscovitch
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
As a teenager, Rudi discovers that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Questioning redemption, lo… read more
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6. The Last Brother
By: Geoffrey Strachan , Nathacha Appanah
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware… read more
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7. A Child in Palestine
By: Joe Sacco , Naji al-Ali
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of … read more
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8. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
9. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- graphic novels
10. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- graphic novels
11. Huda F Cares?
By: Huda Fahmy
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more
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"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?
12. Out of Left Field
By: Jonah Newman
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-auto… read more
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"I'm gay"-Jonah Newman, Out of Left Field
13. We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel
By: Josh Tuininga
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japan… read more
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- jewish
14. Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood
By: Lonnie Mann
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish commun… read more
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- nonfiction
- jewish
15. Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
By: Huda Fahmy
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
At some point in our lives, we’ve all felt a little out of place. Huda Fahmy has found it’s a littl… read more
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- graphic novels
- nonfiction
16. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
By: Kate Manne
4.21
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more
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- nonfiction
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
17. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- graphic novels
- history
- nonfiction
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
18. 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954
By: Marcelino Truong
3.80
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling , a stirring graphic novel about lo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. Artificial: A Love Story
By: Amy Kurzweil
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcend… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
By: Aomar Boum
3.75
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the H… read more
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- jewish
- graphic novels
- nonfiction
- holocaust
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
