Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
By: Jules Boykoff
3.71
Format: None pages, ebook
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have …
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1. Mapping the Interior
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.79
Format: 131 pages, ebook
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more
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"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
2. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
3. The Lowland
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.87
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more
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"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
4. 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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5. The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that creat… read more
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6. India: A History
By: John Keay
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more
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7. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
By: None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich
4.30
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed … read more
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"There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me."-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Jenže já tam nechal krev… Svou… I cizí… Dávali nám vyznamenání, která nenosíme…"-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Dreptul omului de a nu ucide. De a nu învața să ucidă. Neînscris în nicio constituție."-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
"Každá stránka Zinkových chlapců volá: lidé, nedopusťte, aby se tento krvavý zlý sen opakoval!"-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
8. The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Samuel Roukin
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Ringsand Ursula K. Le G… read more
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9. Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.08
Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Five stories of Ursula K. Le Guin's world-renowned realm of Earthsea are collected in one volume. F… read more
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"True art requires a single heart."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
"Things came round if you could wait for them."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
"Why had he lived so long among those who were not kind?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
"things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
10. The Problem of the Wire Cage (Dr. Gideon Fell, #11)
By: John Dickson Carr
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The corpse of Frank Dorrance is discovered in the center of a tennis court and Dr. Gideon Fell sear… read more
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11. The Time in Between
By: María Dueñas , Daniel Hahn
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The Time In Betweenis a word-of-mouth phenomenon that catapulted Maria Duenas, a debut author, to t… read more
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12. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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13. The Singer's Gun
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career… read more
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14. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more
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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
15. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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16. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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17. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
18. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
19. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
20. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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21. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
22. The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
By: Kara Goucher
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living th… read more
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23. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
By: John Shen Yen Nee
3.62
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more
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"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
24. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
25. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
26. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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27. Wrecker
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishe… read more
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28. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
29. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
30. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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31. Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
By: Jules Boykoff
3.71
Format: None pages, ebook
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have … read more
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