Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission ...
Greg MortensonThe astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the ...
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woma...
Deborah RodriguezSoon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills'as doctors, nurses, and therapists'seeme...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for...
Robin DiAngeloGroundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequalityIn this groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist educator Rob...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By...
Barbara EhrenreichWhen one is charged a little bit at a time until the expense grows beyond expectations, that is called being "nickel and dimed." In 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, essayist and social critic Barbara ...
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma OluoIn this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americ...
Nomadland: Surviving America in the T...
Jessica Bruder"People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." ―R...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic St...
Isabel WilkersonIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for norther...
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking Ab...
Chuck KlostermanThe tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong -- now in paperbac...
After losing his job and moving in with his mother, Vincent decides to join Tyriq and sell drugs to pay the bills. Spoon, a longtime friend, counsels him against dealing, but Vincent is lured by the prospect of quick cash. As he makes...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the Am...
Matthew DesmondNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Revie...
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 a...
Laura SpinneyIn 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history...
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The...
Jessica YuThe problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kal...
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first ...
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fant...
Nancy FridayWhen it first appeared, My Secret Garden created a storm of outrage and exhilaration. Women who read it were astonished to find in its pages the hidden content of their own sexual fantasies. More outspoken, graphic, and taboo-shatteri...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into...
Nicholas D. KristofFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Thomas SowellThis explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of docum...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifest...
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable sugg...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing...
Kathryn J. EdinA New York Times Notable Book of 2015 "A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States." —New York Times Book Review"Devastating … A powerful story of the collision...
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the D...
Beth MacyAn instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon RonsonNow a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?...
'Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues ...
1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark. 1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming...
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill LeporeWonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Li...
Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitc...
Sarah WendellThe Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name...We do it in the dark. Under the sheets. With a penlight. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. We have a 'special place' where we store them. Let's face it: Not many folks are ...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert P...
Jeff HobbsAn instant New York Times bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, and Entertainment Weekly, among others, this celebrated account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to ...
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things...
Peter SagalSomewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host—the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs ...
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in No...
Barbara DemickA National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Dem...
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial P...
Allyson HobbsCountless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and loss...
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
Erik LarsonFollows the journey of a handgun, from its manufacture through its violent odyssey into the hands of a disturbed teenager who uses it to kill a teacher, and raises painful questions about the legal and cultural realities of fire...
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual...
Luvvie AjayiComedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essaysWith over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, A...