Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Who gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public healt…
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1. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
By: Tamora Pierce
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm.… read more
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"Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"The thief's fingers touched her chin gently, making her look up."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?"-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
"Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for."-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)
2. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
By: Tamora Pierce
4.27
Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so young Alanna of Treb… read more
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"I believe in deeds, not words."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
"She was to behave. No pranks was to be a watchword."-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
By: Keith Payne , Keith Payne
3.20
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"The Broken Ladderis an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affect… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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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. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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8. 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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- medicine
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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
9. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
By: E. Randolph Richards , Brandon J. O'Brien
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultu… read more
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10. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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11. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
By: David George Haskell
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly orig… read more
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12. España: A Brief History of Spain
By: Giles Tremlett
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- race
- history
14. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more
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"Dread works best in complete silence."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
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. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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17. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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18. Northwoods
By: Amy Pease
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more
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"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"-Amy Pease, Northwoods
19. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
20. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
By: Bradley Onishi
4.33
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… 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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22. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
23. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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24. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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25. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
26. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- race
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"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
27. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
28. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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29. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more
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30. Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Who gets diabetes and why? An in‑depth examination of diabetes in the context of race, public healt… read more
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31. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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