Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
By: Marda Dunsky
4.41
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their e…
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
3. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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- nonfiction
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
5. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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7. Women Who Run With the Wolves
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
4.13
Format: 537 pages, Paperback
Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"Failure is a greater teacher than success"-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
8. She and Her Cat
By: Makoto Shinkai , Tsubasa Yamaguchi
3.69
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
“It was the start of spring. It was raining. That was the day that she brought me home.” This is… read more
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"Let's go home together."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!"-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"And then after that long, long phone call, she wept."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"When she came home, she smelled the way I like. But . . . her face seemed sadder than when she left."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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10. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
12. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
15. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
16. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
17. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
18. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- nonfiction
21. True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
By: Danielle J. Lindemann
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its… read more
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- nonfiction
"We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes."-Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
22. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Robin DiAngelo
4.17
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
23. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By: Austin Channing Brown
4.38
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am not a priest for the white soul."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
24. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
26. No Hiding in Boise
By: Kim Hooper
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thi… read more
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27. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
By: Nur Masalha
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, the land of Palestine has been fought over by competing faiths, nations and empires.… read more
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- nonfiction
28. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
By: Elias Jahshan
4.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more
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- nonfiction
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
29. Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
By: Marda Dunsky
4.41
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their e… read more
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30. Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran
By: Malu Halasa
4.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Jina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widesp… read more
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