Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
By: Charles Person
4.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written …
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1. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
2. The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
By: Kevin Davis
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
By: Jonathan Kozol
3.75
Format: 272 pages,
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- nonfiction
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4. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
By: Angela J. Davis
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought… read more
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- race
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5. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
By: Jimmy Carter
4.48
Format: 252 pages,
Following his #1 New York Timesbestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner o… read more
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6. Carsick
By: John Waters
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo John Waters is putting his l… read more
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7. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Gerald Blaine
3.65
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and… read more
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8. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance
By: Jennifer Armstrong
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton… read more
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9. There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
By: Alex Kotlowitz
4.00
Format: None pages,
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's H… read more
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10. A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
By: Richard Peck
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influen… read more
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11. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
By: Ruth Reichl
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or t… read more
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12. Just as I Am
By: Cicely Tyson
4.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. … read more
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"The most potent antidote to reticence is survival."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Turning a blind eye to our history has not saved us from its consequences."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."-Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am
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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14. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
15. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- memoir
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
16. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
17. Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
By: Charles Person
4.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
18. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By: David Zucchino
4.43
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner, David Zucchino, comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup… read more
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- race
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- historical
- nonfiction
19. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
20. Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
By: Alan Paul
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narra… read more
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21. Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
By: Miles Taylor
4.44
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism … read more
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22. F*ckface: and Other Stories
By: Leah Hampton
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, … read more
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23. Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
By: Jerry Mitchell
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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25. Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
By: Daniel Stone
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into… read more
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- biography
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- historical
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- adult
"History, after all, isn't told by the dead."-Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
26. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
By: Paul Kix
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campa… read more
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- historical
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27. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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28. Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
By: Gilbert King
4.13
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true stor… read more
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- race
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- historical
- nonfiction
- social justice
29. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
By: Kent Garrett
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own ident… read more
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- race
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- memoir
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30. If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
By: Neel Patel
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In these eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotyp… read more
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- adult
"I wasn't always this way. But the friction of life has a way of turning sharp edges into smooth ones, smooth edges into sharp ones, until you've become a duller, slightly misshapen version of your fo…"-Neel Patel, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi
31. Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote
By: Eric Holder
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to t… read more
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