The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
By: William H. Turner
3.80
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Blac…
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1. Pygmalion
By: George Bernard Shaw
3.89
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
2. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury
4.13
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to … read more
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"Oh, death in space was most humorous."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
"Nothing ever likes to die--not even a room. (p.23 --> The Veldt)"-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
4. The Borgias: The Hidden History
By: G.J. Meyer
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about the most infamous family of the Italian Renaissance-here… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Appalachia
By: John Alexander Williams
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Willia… read more
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6. Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth, #3)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or-more accuratel… read more
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7. Far Appalachia: Following the New River North
By: Noah Adams
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietl… read more
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8. The Diva Haunts the House (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #5)
By: Krista Davis
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Domestic diva Sophie Winston is getting into the Halloween spirit- her decorations for a community … read more
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9. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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10. Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
3.49
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more
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"Potatoes make everything okay."-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound
11. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
By: Mona Chollet
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
12. The Fiction Writer
By: Jillian Cantor
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo… read more
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"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rul…"-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer
13. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
14. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
- american history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
15. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
16. 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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17. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
"Their military experience made them more of a threat. Their pride was seen as something in need of control. Once again irrational white supremacist fears turned into extreme forms of brutality. Accor…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
18. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
- american history
19. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
20. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Cassie Chambers
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
21. The Porcelain Moon
By: Janie Chang
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs a… read more
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22. Even As We Breathe
By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more
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23. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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24. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
25. The Man Who Lived Underground
By: Richard Wright
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,… read more
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- race
"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"Yes, the only being who could possibly gaze down upon such a hopeless spectacle and encompass its meaninglessness would have to be a god. That was it! Maybe men had invented gods to feel what they co…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint patt…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
26. To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice (Working Class in American History)
By: Jessica Wilkerson
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. The… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
27. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
By: William H. Turner
3.80
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Blac… read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
- american history
29. Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story
By: Cicero M. Fain III
4.26
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
How African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia'… read more
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- history
30. Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
By: Karida L. Brown
4.31
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about its changin… read more
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- history
- race
- nonfiction
31. The Answer Is No: A Short Story
By: Fredrik Backman
4.13
Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition
In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities … read more
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