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The Bible Seller: A Navajo Nation Mystery (Navajo Nation Mystery Series) by R. Allen Chappell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Beware false prophets in sheep clothes--they can be hungry wolves." (Lay Pastor Eddie Red Horse reading from Matt 7:15) An old silversmith is dead--his body dumped along the highway. Charlie Yazzie refuses to stand by while the FBI and Tribal investigate, not when he sees his friends Thomas Begay and Harley Ponyboy sucked into a tightening web of evil... -
![The Trapped Bride and the Brave Farmer by Indiana Wake]()
The Trapped Bride and the Brave Farmer by Indiana Wake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill Jennifer disobey her parents, to escape the dreadful marriage they planned for her?Jennifer Markham has led a loving and sheltered life. It is not her way to disagree, but when she is matched with Beau Merton, she realizes that she wants a life of her own. That she wants a man who is honest and principled... -
![Rangikura by Tayi Tibble]()
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue.Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble.These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day... -
![The Kitchen Maid by Val Wood]()
The Kitchen Maid by Val Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJenny is determined to make her own way in the world, and she secures a job as the kitchen maid in a grand house in Yorkshire. Gradually, she gains the attention of the young master of the house, and they fall in love.But their hopes and dreams turn to nightmares, culminating in a scandal that will force Jenny to leave behind everything she knows... -
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![They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri]()
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... -
![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
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]()
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... -
![Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson]()
Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings... -
![Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
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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![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
![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... -
![Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified...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]()
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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![The January Children by Safia Elhillo, Kwame Dawes]()
The January Children by Safia Elhillo, Kwame Dawes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land... -
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![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... -
![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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![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... -
![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... -
![Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad]()
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies... -
![We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor]()
We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"That's the problem with you, Minor" a student huffed. "You want to make everything about reading or math. It's not always about that. At school, you guys do everything except listen to me. Y'all want to use your essays and vocabulary words to save my future , but none of y'all know anything about saving my now... -
![Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good]()
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
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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![Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta]()
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?Sand Talk provides a template for living...Categorized as:
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![Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond, Yvette Jackson]()
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond, Yvette Jackson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionThe achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students... -
![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
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![Where Children Sleep by James Mollison]()
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Where Children Sleep” presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world—from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India—alongside portraits of the children themselves... -
![Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates]()
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stephen B. Oates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Christopher AwardA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearBy the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Categorized as:
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![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty by Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt]()
GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty by Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children.With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about the children... -
![Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy]()
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.It all started with Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh discovering dozens of these photographs... -
![Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim]()
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim
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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