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A Tale of Three Kings by Gene Edwards, Paul Michael
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis modern classic will bring light, clarity, and comfort to the brokenhearted. Many Christians have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers. To those believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing and hope... -
![Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch]()
Glamorous Powers by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk. In 1940 Darrow returns to the world he once renounced, but faced with many unforeseen temptations he fails to control his psychic, most glamorous powers... -
![Scandalous Risks by Susan Howatch]()
Scandalous Risks by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1963, when traditional values are coming under attack, a young woman in her twenties, Venetia Flaxton, becomes disastrously involved with her best friend's father, the powerful, dynamic but ultimately mysterious Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Yet, as a married man and a senior Churchman, Aysgarth has nothing to offer her but an admiration which spirals out of control into an obsessive love... -
![Arjun: Without a Doubt by Shinde Sweety]()
Arjun: Without a Doubt by Shinde Sweety
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExplore Mahabharata in the voices & through the eyes of Arjun & Draupadi.Note - Draupadi's narrative is denoted by *** symbol.I knew there was nothing poetic about death. I knew not that the most horrific battles are fought off the battlefield. Arjun: The idealist in a non-ideal world; the warrior whose deadliest opponent was his conscience... -
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![Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris]()
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House... -
![Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo]()
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPhilip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness... -
![Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel by Tariq Ali]()
Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel by Tariq Ali
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final volume in Tariq Ali’s acclaimed cycle of historical novels. Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet—Tariq Ali’s much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing... -
![The Atheist by Achdiat K. Mihardja]()
The Atheist by Achdiat K. Mihardja
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAtheis (The Atheist), first published in 1949, portrays the spiritual and intellectual crisis of Hasan, a young Muslim who was raised to be devout but comes to doubt his faith after becoming involved with a group of modern young people. Upon publication, the novel was praised by literary figures and the general public... -
![One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix, a Novel by Jane Kirkpatrick]()
One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix, a Novel by Jane Kirkpatrick
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to be raised properly... -
![The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi]()
The Simple Past by Driss Chraïbi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury... -
![Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson]()
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAn unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America — from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time.Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned...Categorized as:
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![Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson]()
Caste: The Lies That Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings...Categorized as:
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![So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo]()
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...Categorized as:
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![The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee]()
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA powerful new exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us--including white people--from one of today's most insightful and influential thinkers.Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public...Categorized as:
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![Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi]()
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti–Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists...Categorized as:
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![Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.]()
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society... -
![The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher]()
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsModern culture is obsessed with identity.Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends--and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self...Categorized as:
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![Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks]()
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."-The Village Voice "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."-Sojourner "[Ain't I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change... -
![White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson]()
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America...Categorized as:
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![How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi]()
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other...Categorized as:
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![Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge]()
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' that led to this book...Categorized as:
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![Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister]()
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic—but politically problematic... -
![My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem]()
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the generational anguish of white supremacy, we will all continue to bear its scars...Categorized as:
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![Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt]()
Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Happiness DiaryThe first edition was confiscated by the Securitate in 1972, and restituted in 1975, after censorship intervention. Meanwhile, he had finished writing a second version of the book, which is in its turn confiscated in 1984... -
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![Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith]()
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods...Categorized as:
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![Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman]()
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity... -
![The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason]()
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsBeloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth. Countless readers have been helped by the famous "Babylonian parables," hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth...Categorized as:
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![Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell]()
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they shared a subculture in the South...Categorized as:
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![How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson]()
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois]()
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America...Categorized as:
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