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  • Classical Mythology A to Z

    An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places

    by Annette Giesecke ...
    A beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology.Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythology. Written by Annette Giesecke, PhD, Professor of Classics and Chair of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Invisible Child

    Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Andrea Elliott ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott“From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Nexus

    A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Masterful and provocative.”—Mustafa SuleymanFor the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Suburban Legends

    True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans

    by Sam Stall ...
    It's a Terrible Day in the NeighborhoodThey told you the suburbs were a great place to live. They said nothing bad could ever happen here.But they were wrong.This collection of terrifying true stories exposes the dark side of life in the ’burbs—from corpses buried in backyards and ghosts lurking in fast food restaurants to UFOs, vanishing persons, bizarre apparitions, and worse. Consider:• The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Abolition Geography

    Essays Towards Liberation

    by Ruth Wilson Gilmore ...
    THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    by Musa al-Gharbi ...
    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • What If We Get It Right?

    Visions of Climate Futures

    by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ...
    **“With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with enthusiastic clarity.”—Roxane GayOur climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?**Sometimes the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Other America

    Poverty in the United States

    by Michael Harrington ...
    In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Dream Town

    Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

    by Laura Meckler ...
    Ohioana Book Award FinalistCan a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America?In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells the story of a decades-long pursuit in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and uncovers the roadblocks that have threatened progress time and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Between the World and Me

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • In Plain Sight

    A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

    by Ross Coulthart ...
    An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ...Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived.Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. The 1978 sighting ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Erasing History

    How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    by Jason Stanley ...
    “I’ve never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism.” —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of BlacknessFrom the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Frostbite

    How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

    by Nicola Twilley ...
    **"Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times Book Review“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and StiffAn engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fire Weather

    On the Front Lines of a Burning World

    by John Vaillant ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA BEST ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Trail of Tears

    The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

    by John Ehle ...
    A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Killer Triggers

    by Joe Kenda ...
    The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn’t an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a dangerous trifecta of triggers, as well.This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Becoming Cliterate

    Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It

    by Dr. Laurie Mintz ...
    We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm—clitoral stimulation—from how we feel we should orgasm—penetration. As a result, we’ve ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Female as Subject

    Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

    Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, Gaye Rowley, G. Rowley ...
    Series Book 70 - Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
    The Female as Subject presents 11 essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examining what women of different social classes read, what books were produced specifically for women, and the genres in which women themselves chose to write. The authors explore the different types of education women obtained and the levels of literacy they achieved, and they ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Of Boys and Men

    Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    **The Book that Sparked a National ConversationA Barack Obama 2024 Summer Reading Selection**An Economist Best Book of 2022A New Yorker Best Book of 2022Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Hood Feminism

    Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

    by Mikki Kendall ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 *New York Times-*bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic“One of the most important books of the current ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Crime of the Congo

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    In 1909 Conan Doyle, fueled by “a burning indignation, which is the best of all driving power”, wrote a book in only eight days. In "The Crime of the Congo", Doyle documents the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State, the personal possession of Leopold II of Belgium. Thousands of native Africans were forced to labor on rubber plantations for the benefit of their colonial overlords. The ... Read more

    $0.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woke Antisemitism

    How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

    by David L. Bernstein ...
    “David Bernstein has written an important book which deserves to be read widely and be thoroughly discussed in our community. This book is a powerful defense of liberal values….Bernstein’s treatment is nuanced and respectful, showing understanding for the goals even as he critiques the methods of woke culture and shows us cases where it leads to antisemitism.”–Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Woman of Interest

    A Memoir

    by Tracy O'Neill ...
    MOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern LivingA National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.</... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD