The Harm Reduction Gap
By: Sheila P. Vakharia
4.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use…
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recoveri… read more
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"Our brains are embodied—much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see “physical,"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn’t the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I’d never have lasting comfort or…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"But since President Obama allowed Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational use and sales of marijuana following initiatives in 2012, the United Stets itself is probably now violating internat…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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6. 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
7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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8. 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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9. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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10. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
12. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- nonfiction
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
13. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
4.23
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
14. 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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"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
15. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
16. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
17. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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18. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more
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"You're as sick as your secrets."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
19. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
By: David Poses
4.23
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitc… read more
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"From the beginning of high school, all other substances were readily available and liberally consumed by my friends, who used weed and booze like an essential garnish for activities. Peer pressure wa…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
"I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleas…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
20. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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21. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- nonfiction
22. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
By: Sam Quinones
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more
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23. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)
By: Cindy Steel
4.17
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
One little white lie. That's all it took. Now I'm suddenly having to fake-date my work nemesis t… read more
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"You are a rush to me. Every time I make you smile, my heart rate goes through the roof. The way you blush and bite your lip and pretend to be annoyed when I tease you…"-Cindy Steel, Faking Christmas (Christmas Escape)
25. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
26. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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28. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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- nonfiction
"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
29. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
By: Shawn Cohen
3.69
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
By: Shira Hassan
4.53
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilatio… read more
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31. The Harm Reduction Gap
By: Sheila P. Vakharia
4.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use… read more
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