Captives How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
By: Jarrod Shanahan
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Captives combines a thrilling account of Rikers Island’s descent into infamy with a dramatic retell…
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1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
By: James Ellroy
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more
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3. A Coffin for Dimitrios
By: Eric Ambler
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more
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4. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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5. The Grass Arena: An Autobiography
By: John Healy
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his e… read more
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6. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
By: Vine Deloria Jr.
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so… read more
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7. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
By: Manning Marable , Dan Georgakas , None
3.59
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Move… read more
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8. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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10. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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11. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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12. Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1)
By: Mira Grant
4.16
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" b… read more
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13. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
14. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
15. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
16. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- audiobook
18. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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19. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
20. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By: Greg Grandin
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more
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"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
21. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
22. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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23. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
By: Jodi Kantor
4.35
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women… read more
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"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
24. 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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25. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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26. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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27. The Factory
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.34
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more
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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
28. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
29. Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
By: Laleh Khalili
3.99
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realitie… read more
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30. Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
By: Juan Villoro
3.99
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, t… read more
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31. Captives How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
By: Jarrod Shanahan
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Captives combines a thrilling account of Rikers Island’s descent into infamy with a dramatic retell… read more
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