We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
By: D. Watkins
4.48
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author o…
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1. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
By: Chris Whipple
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and i… read more
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"At a farewell party, his staff presented him with a gift: a beaten-up car seat—a nod to his Secret Service code name."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
"When government works, it is usually because the chief understands the fabric of power, threading the needle where policy and politics converge."-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
2. Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
By: Anne Lamott
3.70
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy… read more
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"...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"...my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk..."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?"-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
"Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come."-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
4. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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5. The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain
By: Steven R. Gundry
4.37
Format: None pages,
From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in… read more
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6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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7. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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8. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
By: Paul Strathern
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, Th… read more
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9. A Briefer History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow
4.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie… read more
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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
10. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
11. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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12. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
By: Carol Leonnig
4.24
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
By: Anne Lamott
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more
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- memoir
- essays
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"Look around and see whom you can serve."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
"...God's love is not the same as human love. [Our] love...is fraught with conditions, delusion, and judgment."-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
14. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
By: Sesali Bowen
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-bre… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
15. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- memoir
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
16. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.40
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of le… read more
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- nonfiction
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17. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
18. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more
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"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
19. Dear Vicky
By: Octavia Grant
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition
Delusional /dəˈlo͞oZH(ə)nəl/ (adjective) - characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments ab… read more
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20. Black Candle Women
By: Diane Marie Brown
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more
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"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women
21. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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- social justice
- african american
- anti racist
- audiobook
"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
22. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
By: Tara Brach
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult… read more
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- audiobook
23. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
By: Pete Buttigieg
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete B… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"As I raised the glass and said, "South Bend is back," the roar of the crowd at once reflected, certified, and caused it to be so."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
"I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry."-Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
24. 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"
25. How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
By: Nicole LePera
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Holistic Psychologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Getaway
By: Lamar Giles
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more
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27. A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
By: Caroline Crampton
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definit… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"If I have to inhabit a fragile meat vessel that could disintegrate at any moment, at least don't make me think about it all the time."-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"I wonder if the hypochondriac him or herself is a metaphor, a condensed node of ideas about illness crushed together into one individual. I am pressed between these layers of meaning like a flower pr…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Fairy tales and folklore are full of this moment: a potion to be swallowed that will transform or destroy a life....When life is especially difficult or hard, the notion that just a single action cou…"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
"Illness is a story we tell about ourselves. The narrative is the connective tissue that joins together the symptoms and perceptions and makes sense of them. It's how impenetrable concepts like death …"-Caroline Crampton, A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
28. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
By: Morgan Jerkins
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
- audiobook
29. The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders
By: Kathryn Heath
3.88
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs i… read more
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30. We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
By: D. Watkins
4.48
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author o… read more
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