Insurrection: Holding History
By: Robert O'Hara
4.06
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut by a talented new African-American playwright.
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1. The Language Archive
By: Julia Cho
4.05
Format: 59 pages, Paperback
George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures.… read more
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2. The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis , Henry Shields , Jonathan Sayer
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this m… read more
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3. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
By: Robert K. Massie
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and … read more
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4. The Marriage of Bette and Boo
By: Christopher Durang , None
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brillia… read more
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5. If Beale Street Could Talk
By: James Baldwin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more
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6. Yellow Face
By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more
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7. Anna in the Tropics
By: Nilo Cruz
4.10
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires… read more
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8. The 39 Steps
By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more
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9. A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
By: Victoria Schwab , None
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months … read more
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10. Photograph 51
By: Anna Ziegler , Matthew Arkin , Maxwell Caulfield
4.40
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets o… read more
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11. Molly Sweeney
By: Brian Friel
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Three points of view about a poignant drama are related by three characters addressing the audience… read more
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12. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
13. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
14. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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15. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
16. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.57
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more
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"We all have a animal double, Englishman."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
17. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
18. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
19. 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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"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"
20. Make Believe
By: Bess Wohl
4.17
Format: 100 pages, ebook
The first half is set in the 1980s, with four young siblings as their childhood is upended by the m… read more
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21. Our Lady of Kibeho
By: Katori Hall
4.15
Format: None pages, None
In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. She is denounced by her superiors … read more
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22. The Brothers Size
By: Tarell Alvin McCraney
4.12
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Tarell Alvin McCraneyThe Brothers SizeThere are two brothers Size.There is Ogun who owns an auto-re… read more
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23. Mojo & String
By: Alice Childress
3.86
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
MOJO. Paying a surprise visit to her former husband, Irene, aware that she is ill with cancer, reve… read more
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24. Hand to God: A Play
By: Robert Askins
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
"The freshest and funniest Broadway comedy in years... Hand to God is to plays as The Book of Mormo… read more
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25. Tambo & Bones
By: Dave Harris
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a … read more
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26. The Homecoming Queen
By: Ngozi Anyanwu
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
At fifteen years old, Kelechi left Nigeria for the United States, leaving her family and her cultur… read more
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28. Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery
By: Lloyd Suh
3.94
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
In 1967, Berkeley grad student Frank Chan and his artist-activist girlfriend Kathy Ching are stagin… read more
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29. Sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson
By: Charly Evon Simpson
4.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
THE Angela and Odessa are on a sandy search for something that might not be real, but they are det… read more
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30. Insurrection: Holding History
By: Robert O'Hara
4.06
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A remarkable debut by a talented new African-American playwright. read more
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31. When I Come to Die
By: Nathan Louis Jackson
4.50
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
WHEN I COME TO DIE tells the story of Damon Robinson, a death-row inmate who struggles to find fait… read more
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