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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 118,998 ratings — published 2016
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 273,795 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,873 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,614 ratings — published 2015
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,694 ratings — published 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,730 ratings — published 2018
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 225,522 ratings — published 2024
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 59,696 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 207,879 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 69,752 ratings — published 2012
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 359,666 ratings — published 2006
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 516,622 ratings — published 2016
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.05 — 99,726 ratings — published 2019
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 114,478 ratings — published 2017
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 67,834 ratings — published 2023
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 102,449 ratings — published 2017
12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 8,218 ratings — published 2017
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,779 ratings — published 2017
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.42 — 6,249 ratings — published 2020
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 46,177 ratings — published 2020
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,739 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,969 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 33,240 ratings — published 2015
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 197,294 ratings — published 2007
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 913,466 ratings — published 2005
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 20,119 ratings — published 2024
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 6,579 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 121,230 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 184,354 ratings — published 2019
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 345,741 ratings — published 2019
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 39,486 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 13,083 ratings — published 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 74,433 ratings — published 2018
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 65,472 ratings — published 2019
Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,761 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,890 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343,360 ratings — published 2012
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 126,300 ratings — published 2015
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,122 ratings — published 2016
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 61,373 ratings — published 2015
What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,190 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 106,170 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 475,337 ratings — published 1997
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 55,969 ratings — published 2008
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 30,059 ratings — published 2010
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 646,578 ratings — published 1999
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 197,037 ratings — published 2001
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,852 ratings — published 2005
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 11,383 ratings — published 2025
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 82,837 ratings — published 2025
“I'd already have had it vacuumed out of me if women weren't playthings in this shitty political era that we've been forced into where our rights are being taken away and classified as options- or rather non-options, in this case.”
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
“In our day and age, global society has been saturated with the wrong teaching of false positivity. The denial of darkness never equates the abundance of light. And the denial of your actual character never equates to the reality of your best character. People today are afraid to work on themselves and on their actual realities, they believe that outward appearances are enough. Outward appearances have become everything in our current day and age. People don't see what they are actually like, nor who they actually are, in reality. They live in a phantasmic version of reality. It has to stop. In the phantasmic version of reality, there is no chance to experience true love, true goodness, and true metamorphosis. The caterpillar does not become a butterfly by telling everybody it has wings. It actually buries itself in darkness and grows those wings.”
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