How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education
By: Arne Duncan
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- education
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
3. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Inside Out & Back Again
By: Thanhhà Lại
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more
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5. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
6. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
7. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
By: Stephanie Land
3.85
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northw… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Our space was a home because we loved each other in it."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"Most of my friendships had faded over the last year because I’d isolated myself and hidden from the embarrassment of my daily life."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
"My parents had moved on leaving me emotionally orphaned. I vowed to never put the same amount of physical and emotional space between Mia and me."-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
8. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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- business
- nonfiction
- education
9. The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
By: Jason Fung
4.50
Format: 327 pages, ebook
Dr. Jason Fung forever changed the way we think about obesity with his best-selling book, The Obesi… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- social issues
- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
12. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
13. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
14. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
15. Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
By: Chelsea Handler
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in L.A. in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydream… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Now that I had a better understanding of why I was so pissed off, I could finally do something about it."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Judging other people had become my way of avoiding judgment of myself, and I had to do better than that."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
"Never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that."-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
16. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
17. Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
By: Brad S. Gregory
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revol… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
18. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
19. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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- biography
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- business
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
20. The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
By: Seth Godin
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Linchpin , Tribes, and The Dip comes an elegant little book that wil… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
"The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop."-Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
"Creativity Is an Action, Not a Feeling Marie Schacht points out that we can't always do much about how we feel, particularly when it's about something important. But we can always control our actions…"-Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
21. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
- education
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
22. From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
3.82
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
23. The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
By: Natalie Wexler
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle o… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- education
24. What Great Teachers Do Differently
By: Todd Whitaker
3.69
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? In this internationally renowned … read more
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- nonfiction
- education
25. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
By: Brian Alexander
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- business
26. I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By: Blythe Grossberg
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth b… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- education
27. The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent―and Reinvent―Our Identities
By: Gregory Berns
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, ar… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
By: Sam Wineburg
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it invites a slide into intellectual torpor. History as truth, issued from the left or the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to stamp out …"-Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
29. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By: Preet Bharara
4.27
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"Go out there and try to be good. If you go out there and try to be good, you've got a chance to be great."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"You will not find God or grace in legal concepts, in formal notions of criminal justice. Certain values and ideals are beyond justice. These include mercy, forgiveness, redemption, dignity. Also love."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, f…"-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
30. How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education
By: Arne Duncan
3.64
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“This book merits every American’s serious consideration” (Vice President Joe Biden): from the Secr… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social issues
- education
- business
31. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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- business
