Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore's Road Wars
By: E. Evans Paull
3.96
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore's 40-year battle over expressway pla…
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1. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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2. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
3. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
4. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
By: None
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's… read more
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5. French Braid
By: Anne Tyler
3.64
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more
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6. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
7. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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- nonfiction
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
9. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- nonfiction
10. What Have We Done
By: Alex Finlay
3.54
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
In this thriller from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and … read more
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11. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
12. Writers & Lovers
By: Lily King
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily K… read more
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"That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature"-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"It's a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"They say women have intuition, but men can smell a competitor across state lines."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
"God, you poets are full of shit. You have no idea what half the words you worship mean."-Lily King, Writers & Lovers
13. Sparring Partners (Jake Brigance, #4)
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller.… read more
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14. Prom Mom
By: Laura Lippman
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more
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"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom
15. The Writing Retreat
By: Julia Bartz
3.43
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more
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"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat
"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat
"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat
16. Lady in the Lake
By: Laura Lippman
3.50
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that comb… read more
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"Again, I have to ask: are you really missing if nobody misses you?"-Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake
17. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By: Claire Jiménez
3.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more
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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
18. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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19. Know My Name
By: Chanel Miller
4.70
Format: 384 pages, ebook
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b… read more
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"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."-Chanel Miller, Know My Name
20. Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (A Bestselling Basketball Memoir)
By: Carmelo Anthony
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up… read more
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21. Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
By: Steven Higashide
4.27
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? B… read more
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22. The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
By: Lawrence T. Brown
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by F… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore's Road Wars
By: E. Evans Paull
3.96
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore's 40-year battle over expressway pla… read more
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24. The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide
By: Lawrence Lanahan
3.72
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A masterful narrative—with echoes of Evicted and The Color of Law—that brings to life the structure… read more
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