Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience
By: Kevin Maxwell
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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1. Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts
By: Shaa Wasmund , Richard Newton
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
There's never been a better time, or a more urgent time, to start doing the things you want to do. … read more
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2. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
By: Cory Franklin
3.57
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more
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3. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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4. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
5. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue
By: Peter Everett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more
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6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
7. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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8. A Bit of a Stretch
By: Chris Atkins
4.21
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more
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9. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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10. So Lucky
By: Dawn O'Porter
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
IS ANYONE’S LIFE . . . Beth shows that women really can have it all.Ruby lives life by her own r… read more
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"If you're not dressing for yourself by forty-five then you need to have a major rethink."-Dawn O'Porter, So Lucky
11. The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, #28)
By: Scott Mariani
4.29
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal… read more
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12. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
By: Serj Tankian
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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13. Murder of Innocence
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The world's bestselling thriller writer, James Patterson, is partnering with Discovery ID again to … read more
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14. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
By: Bernardine Evaristo
3.98
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's m… read more
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"Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren."-Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
15. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
16. That Reminds Me
By: Derek Owusu
3.83
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields… read more
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"I wanted to live again. As they gathered, I felt the pressure of each tear awake to its own trickling sand weighing down the dirt on my grave."-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"As I walk home, doubting each step before I make it, I am agnostic. Before I close my eyes to sleep, I am a Christian. When I wake, pulled from the pool still reflecting the penumbra, I am spiritual,…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"After a late-night library trip I’d call her and say, ‘Look at the moon.’ Black boys rarely speak on the poet’s muse so these twilight tropes seemed original – the moon is glowing new when seen throu…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
"Anansi, your four gifts raised to Nyame grant you no power over the stories I tell, stories that build like dew, alerting you but creating no music when they drop onto the drums of our sky. Take my ‘…"-Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me
17. Grand Union
By: Zadie Smith
3.26
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, f… read more
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"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"-Zadie Smith, Grand Union
18. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
By: Afua Hirsch
4.32
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain… read more
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"Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants."-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
"What makes those with perceived 'English' identities different from others in the UK? One answer is that, unlike Wales, Northern ireland and Scotland, with their devolved legislatures, separate langu…"-Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
19. I Spy: My Life in MI5
By: Tom Marcus
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - SunTom Marcus spen… read more
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20. The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
By: Kehinde Andrews
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism con… read more
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21. Forced Out: A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience
By: Kevin Maxwell
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he had a long-held desire to serve his c… read more
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