Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
By: William Sturkey
4.24
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2020 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize A rich, multigenerational saga of race and fa…
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1. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more
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- american
"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
2. The Address
By: Fiona Davis
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between … read more
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3. I Have Lived a Thousand Years
By: None
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
By: Scott S. Greenberger
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When President James Garfield was shot, no one in the United States was more dismayed than his Vice… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
4.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic--attending school is a welcome change for the book… read more
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6. Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
By: Richard Russo
4.11
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the… read more
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- american
"Still, what made people tick was no great mystery, was it? Greed. Lust. Anger. Jealousy. You could almost let your voice fall right there. Love? Some people claimed it made the world go round, but he…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"«Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que había olvidado algo era uno de los placeres más infravalorados de la vida.Cuántas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier lug…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
"Maybe that was what marriage meant, except that in theirs it had been a one-way street. He couldn't think of a single behavior of Becka's that he had altered in the slightest. But perhaps that was be…"-Richard Russo, Everybody's Fool (Sully, #2)
7. The Life We Bury
By: Allen Eskens
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English c… read more
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8. In Sunlight and in Shadow
By: Mark Helprin
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Entrancing in its lyricism,In Sunlight and in Shadow so powerfully draws you into New York at the d… read more
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9. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
By: Bill Dedman , Paul Clark Newell Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupie… read more
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10. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
11. The Mayor of Maxwell Street
By: Avery Cunningham
3.56
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head … read more
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12. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
13. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
14. This Book Is Banned
By: Raj Haldar
4.13
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of P Is for Pterodactyl Raj Haldar comes a silly and irre… read more
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- social justice
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
16. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
17. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
18. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
19. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- race
- african american
20. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
By: Will Schwalbe
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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- race
- african american
"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
22. The Nigerwife
By: Vanessa Walters
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more
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"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife
23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
24. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
25. The Masterpiece
By: Fiona Davis
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In her latest captivating novel, nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the g… read more
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26. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- race
- history
- african american
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
27. One Blood
By: Denene Millner
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets … read more
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- african american
28. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
29. The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
By: Richard Grant
4.03
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
30. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, unsparing debut novel about black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intima… read more
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- african american
31. Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
By: William Sturkey
4.24
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2020 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize A rich, multigenerational saga of race and fa… read more
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- race
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- african american
