The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
By: Jill Watts
4.12
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impove…
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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
2. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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3. Swing Time
By: Zadie Smith
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: abou… read more
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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6. The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life
By: Rick Ankiel
4.00
Format: None pages, Audio
A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, on… read more
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7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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8. Saints for All Occasions
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hop… read more
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9. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
12. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
13. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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14. 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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15. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
By: Samantha Power
4.34
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rig… read more
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"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
16. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution
By: Rainn Wilson
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**New York Times Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more
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- audiobook
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
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- social justice
- audiobook
18. Robin
By: Dave Itzkoff
4.11
Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a c… read more
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19. Thicker than Water: A Memoir
By: Kerry Washington
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the "exquisitely movi… read more
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20. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
By: Finn Murphy
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul .”―Sloane Crosley, Vanity… read more
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"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been larg…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply o…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t give two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited sup…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
21. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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22. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.19
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more
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23. What Wild Women Do
By: Karma Brown
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more
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24. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
By: A. Deborah Baker
3.69
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more
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"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
25. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
26. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
By: Debora Harding
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more
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27. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)
By: Seanan McGuire
3.83
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more
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28. Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A: How Faith, Cows, and Chicken Built an Iconic Brand
By: Steve Robinson
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The longtime chief marketing officer for Chick-fil-A tells the inside story of how the company turn… read more
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- audiobook
29. Yoga Pant Nation (Class Mom, #3)
By: Laurie Gelman
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Yoga Pant Nation--a novel about one … read more
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30. Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
By: Charles R. Gallagher
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten history of American terrorists who, in the name of God, conspired to overthrow the go… read more
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31. The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
By: Jill Watts
4.12
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impove… read more
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