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Eva - A Novel by Carry Van Bruggen: Translated and with a Commentary by Jane Fenoulhet by Carry van Bruggen
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I let these years slip through my fingers like a stream of dry, glinting sand.” Eva is a coming-of-age story told in fluid, stream-of-consciousness prose that takes readers through the eponymous main character’s orthodox Jewish girlhood to marriage to, finally, independence and sexual freedom... -
![Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz]()
Love in the Rain by Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA vibrant novel of memorable characters who search for happiness and true love, cope with the bitterness that results from love's betrayal, and embrace new beginnings. Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, Love in the Rain introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, experience the effects of this calamitous event... -
![Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff]()
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela]()
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962...Categorized as:
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![Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell]()
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill SolowayA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman...Categorized as:
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![Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.]()
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTraces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey and slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement, to life in the 1990s. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo... -
![How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France]()
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague...Categorized as:
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![Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years to examine how dictators come to power, and how they help to foster a poisonous culture of polarisation, fear and suspicion that persists even after their time in power is over... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms...Categorized as:
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![Dark Days by James Baldwin]()
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world...Categorized as:
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![I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein]()
I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award-winning actor and playwright, revealing never-before-told stories of his personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, and of his fabled career Harvey Fierstein's legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of... -
![The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara]()
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAvailable for the first time in paperback, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara reflects the poet's growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling experimental verses that he began writing in the late 1940s to the years before his accidental death at forty, when his poems became increasingly individual and reflective... -
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![The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola]()
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr... -
![A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon]()
A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism."Brash, funny and brave." --NPR"A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen... -
![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... -
![Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality by Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell]()
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality by Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage...Categorized as:
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![The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell]()
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failuresSowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones]()
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie Preston, and Rachel Griffiths.Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were...Categorized as:
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![All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard]()
All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.“A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness of one woman who fearlessly stood up to a culture trying to break her down... -
![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan]()
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten... -
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![Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike by Tim Tate]()
Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike by Tim Tate
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1984, a small group of gay men and lesbian women stepped away from London’s vibrant gay scene to support a beleaguered mining community in the remote valleys of South Wales. They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners’ strike—the most bitter and divisive dispute for more than half a century... -
![Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung]()
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching... -
![We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights by Beth Ditto, Owen Jones]()
We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights by Beth Ditto, Owen Jones
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHow can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Holland, and more share their stories and visions for the future. 'A vital addition to your bookshelf' — Stylist , 5 Books for Summer'Captivating . . -
![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![The Men With The Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger]()
The Men With The Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Since that time, books such as Richard Plant's The Pink Triangle (and Martin Sherman's play Bent) have illuminated this nearly lost history... -
![How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ]()
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of The Female Man, a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write."She didn't write it. She wrote it but she shouldn't have. She wrote it but look what she wrote about. She wrote it but she isn't really an artist, and it isn't really art. She wrote it but she had help. She wrote it but she's an anomaly. She wrote it BUT..
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