Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat ― An American History
By: Christina Ward
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
2. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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3. What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
By: Laina Dawes , Skin
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
What Are You Doing Here? investigates how black women musicians and fans navigate the metal, hardco… read more
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4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- adult
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
5. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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6. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more
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"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
7. 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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"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
8. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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9. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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10. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
By: Adam Cesare
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more
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11. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
12. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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13. Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
By: Anna Kavan
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1… read more
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14. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.54
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more
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- adult
15. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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16. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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17. The Waters
By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
3.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the sou… read more
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"Maybe lions keep their promises not to eat your lambs just until they get hungry."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"This is a dog town. A dog gets forgiven for his crimes here. A cat has to pay the price for every transgression. Meow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
"Titus is going to come milk Delilah after seven." There was a long silence before Herself said grimly, "Don't tell me I raised the kind of girl who waits for a man to milk her cow."-Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters
18. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
19. Murder Most Royal (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #3)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Christmas at Sandringham is going to be murder . . . December 2016 - A severed hand is found was… read more
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20. 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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21. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
By: Marc Masters
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more
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22. Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more
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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
23. A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer's Row: a Memoir
By: Eugene S. Robinson
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musician Eugene S. Robinson that takes read… read more
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24. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
By: Jen Gunter
4.25
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more
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"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
25. The Best American Food Writing 2022
By: Sohla El-Waylly
3.96
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series ed… read more
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26. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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27. A Certain Kind of Starlight
By: Heather Webber
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars. E… read more
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28. Final Cut
By: Charles Burns
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an ar… read more
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29. Haunt Sweet Home
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.47
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more
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30. Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat ― An American History
By: Christina Ward
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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- adult
31. Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
By: Justin McHenry
3.80
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hu… read more
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