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The Wildcat by Hildie McQueen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe could marry the nice local farmer, or dare she get swept away by an intimidating warrior who is very much out of reach?Gideon Ross, the youngest brother to the heroic Lion, laird to the most powerful clan finally faces his destiny and it is not at all what he would have ever expected... -
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Rekreacje by Yuri Andrukhovych
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRecreations is a novel of carnivalesque vitality and acute social criticism. It celebrates newly found freedom and reflects upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society. Four poets and an entourage of secondary characters converge on fictional Chortopil for the Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit, an orgy of popular culture, civic dysfunction, national pride, and sex... -
![The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961 by Leïla Sebbar]()
The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961 by Leïla Sebbar
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeïla Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Toward the end of the Algerian war, the FLN, an Algerian nationalist party, organized a demonstration in Paris to oppose a curfew imposed upon Algerians in France. About 30,000 Algerians gathered peacefully, but the protest was brutally suppressed by the Paris police...Categorized as:
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![Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala]()
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today... -
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![Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha]()
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryThese poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living one’s entire life in Gaza, making a life for one’s family and raising a family in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack...Categorized as:
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![United States Bill of Rights by James Madison]()
United States Bill of Rights by James Madison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution...Categorized as:
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Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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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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![Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams]()
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched analysis details the development of...Categorized as:
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![They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima]()
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America... -
![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
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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![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
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... -
![Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo]()
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing. In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St... -
![Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin]()
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfrica Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife.In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke]()
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOriginally published by A & B Books, Brooklyn, New York... -
![Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé]()
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
![The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Bezmozgis]()
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Bezmozgis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained... -
![River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler]()
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the heart of China's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai... -
![Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia]()
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz... -
![Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker]()
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans...Categorized as:
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![Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston]()
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development...Categorized as:
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![A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle]()
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of The Washington Post 's 10 Best Books of the Year"A remarkable book...indispensable."-- The Boston Globe"A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced." --The New York Times"This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation...Categorized as:
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![Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone]()
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system...Categorized as:
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![Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]()
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNgugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in the teaching of literature... -
![Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts]()
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport - still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning... -
![The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin]()
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity... -
![Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman]()
Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history...Categorized as:
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![The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette]()
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it "The American Slave Coast" tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation... -
![We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja]()
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black StudiesWinner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureA bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom MovementIn We Will Shoot Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement , Akinyele Omowale...
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