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Bright Star by Yuyi Morales
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYuyi Morales weaves the tale of a fawn making her way through a landscape that is dangerous, beautiful—and full of potential. A gentle voice urges her onward, to face her fears and challenge the obstacles that seek to hold her back. Child, you are awake! You are alive! You are a bright star, Inside our hearts... -
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They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life... -
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020... -
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHarold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious... -
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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe must-read national bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry. - JP Morgan NextList Pick- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's BillionsWill Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room... -
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Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.It’s not you, it’s the food.We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food... -
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Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide by Madeline Puckette, Justin Hammack
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER The expanded wine guide from the creators of Wine Folly, packed with new information for devotees and newbies alike. Wine Folly became a sensation for its inventive, easy-to-digest approach to learning about wine... -
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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down...Categorized as:
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnited States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology.This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries...Categorized as:
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Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
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Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge...Categorized as:
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Feminists of Color by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel...Categorized as:
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask... -
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Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
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Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed selection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer, indigenous woman in America today...Categorized as:
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Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIndigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality... -
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Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is real food—our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, “clean” ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef...Categorized as:
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance... -
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of PalestineIsrael’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies...Categorized as:
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Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings by Subcomandante Marcos, José Saramago
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos...Categorized as:
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