Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy
By: Gary L. Roberts
3.92
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Sand Creek.At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the com…
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1. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
By: David John , Hyeonseo Lee
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorshi… read more
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"He’d valued his dignity more than his own life."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
2. The Leavers
By: Lisa Ko
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at… read more
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3. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By: Alcoholics Anonymous
4.08
Format: None pages,
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for Originally published in 1952, this class… read more
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4. Land of Silence
By: Tessa Afshar
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Before Christ called her daughter . . . Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment… read more
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5. Sarah's Key
By: Tatiana de Rosnay
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation an… read more
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6. Beyond Loneliness: The Gift of God's Friendship
By: Trevor Hudson
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Loneliness touches everyone, whether they are young or old, rich or poor. It can be one of the most… read more
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7. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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8. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
10. The Lioness
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.72
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more
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"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness
11. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
12. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
13. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
14. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By: Anderson Cooper
3.82
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more
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15. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
By: Olivia Hawker
4.19
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of surviv… read more
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"Beyond the borders of the land that was his lay the wilderness that was its own. The upthrust stone, the shoulders of the Bighorns, reddish gray where they stood near to the homestead and blue where …"-Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
16. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
17. The Book of Two Ways
By: Jodi Picoult
3.66
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendan… read more
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"Truth vibrates when it's drawn across the bow of pain."-Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways
"How can you enjoy life if you spend every minute fearing the end of it?"-Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways
"We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true."-Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways
"Creation, by definition, is separation. Moving forward means being split apart."-Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways
18. 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
19. 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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20. She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated trib… read more
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"Ironically, slavery's burdens - all that that she suffered while working with different yet demanding families - turned Harriet into a warrior, a warrior who was ready to slay the dragon of human bon…"-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
21. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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22. Resistance Women
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.07
Format: 640 pages, ebook
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical … read more
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"How could anyone vote for the party of Adolf Hitler?"-Jennifer Chiaverini, Resistance Women
23. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
24. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
25. Daughter of Cana (Jerusalem Road, #1)
By: Angela Elwell Hunt
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs… read more
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26. The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border
By: Rosayra Pablo Cruz
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story of one brave mother … read more
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27. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
By: Brittany K. Barnett
4.59
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story ab… read more
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"Teachers, lawyers, social workers, activists-anyone who works with the directly impacted, anyone who confronts the system day in and day out-will tell you that residual trauma is real."-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"No matter how many times my dad urged me to reach for the stars, my understanding of the universe was still confined by the world' limited notion of what a Black country girl from the South could do …"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"A statue of a lone Confederate general towers over the Clarksville town center. To hear my grandpa tell it the general was built looking sternly over the Black side of town as a warning regarding whe…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"But it was 1996, and America's War on Drugs was in full throttle. Resources for drug treatment were scant, while money was being poured into law enforcement and prisons. People with addiction like Ma…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
28. Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
By: Michelle Duster
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Called “a dangerous negro agitator” by the FBI, and a “brave woman” by Frederick Douglass, an inspi… read more
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29. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
By: Simon Parkin
3.95
Format: 432 pages, ebook
The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arreste… read more
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30. Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
By: Jeffrey L Staley
4.01
Format: 362 pages, ebook
Gum Moon (Cantonese for "Gold Door" or "Golden Gate") is the remarkable coming of age story of a Ch… read more
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31. Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy
By: Gary L. Roberts
3.92
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Sand Creek.At dawn on the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington gave the com… read more
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