From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
By: Vicki L. Ruiz
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural an…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By: Danielle L. McGuire
4.47
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a st… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractur…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
"Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or se…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
3. The Return of the Soldier
By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean
3.70
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more
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- 20th century
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
4. Barbarian's Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5)
By: Ruby Dixon
3.87
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s hard being the most popular girl on the ice planet. The alien men are falling all over themsel… read more
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"There is a saying among my people,"-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5)
"Just so you know, most kisses don’t end up like that."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5)
"Your fear will fade with time. I am a patient male and content to wait."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5)
"Life is not safe. Life is full of danger. There are sweet parts and there are terrible parts. The not-knowing is what makes it worth living."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian's Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians, #5)
5. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
6. Barbarian's Touch (Ice Planet Barbarians, #7)
By: Ruby Dixon
3.63
Format: 353 pages,
When I wake up on the ice planet, I'm scared of everything: this place is cold, silent, and the loc… read more
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7. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- feminism
- race
- nonfiction
8. The Hellbound Heart
By: Clive Barker
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more
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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart
9. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
10. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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11. Barbarian's Taming (Ice Planet Barbarians, #8)
By: Ruby Dixon
4.54
Format: 380 pages,
As a newcomer to the alien tribe, I've struggled to find my place. It might be because I'm a tad he… read more
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12. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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13. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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14. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
By: David R. Roediger
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson … read more
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15. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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- 20th century
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
16. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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17. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)
By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more
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18. The Bondwoman's Narrative
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Hannah Crafts
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Barnes Noble Review Through a sequence of fortuitous events detailed in the introduction, noted… read more
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19. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
20. 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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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"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
21. Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
By: Patricia Briggs
4.40
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions… read more
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"Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in."-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone."-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
"Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice."-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that."-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
22. Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3)
By: Ruby Dixon
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The third novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians series, an international publishing phenomenon—now in … read more
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"Kira, this is dangerous."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3)
"You’d be safe if it wasn’t for me."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3)
"If my khui resonates for someone else? I will not let it."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3)
"Life can be sweet, even if you take it one day at a time."-Ruby Dixon, Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3)
23. Ice Planet Honeymoon: Vektal and Georgie (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1.5)
By: Ruby Dixon
3.51
Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens after happily ever after? Quite a bit, actually. Georgie and Vektal are mated, but Geo… read more
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24. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- race
- history
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
25. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
26. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
27. A Lady for a Duke
By: Alexis Hall
4.07
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect… read more
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"I will never forget him. But"-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke
"Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people."-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke
28. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
By: Natalia Molina
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
29. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- latin american history
30. Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940
By: Julio Capó, Jr.
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
31. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
By: Vicki L. Ruiz
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural an… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- unfinished
- feminism
- womens studies
- nonfiction
- 20th century
- latin american history
