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An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the ...

PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER - Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to...

What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obs...

An Irreverent History of Travel This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Air...

Notes from a Trap Feminist From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory...

Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the ...

A Landless Indian's Journey Home A People Magazine "Best New Book of the Month" - Finalist for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award - A Kirkus Rev...

A Field Guide to All Things Southern Hey, y'all. Welcome to the South! Viral sensation and TikToker Landon Bryant (@LandonTalks) presents his tongu...

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature ...

Notes of a Former Caseworker Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the chil...

A Backstory A fascinating journey into the scientific and cultural history of the female butt, for fans of Mary Roach and Leslie Jamison. Whether w...

Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion "Terrifically exciting and fun" (Publishers Weekly), Champagne...

Overcoming Fear and Certainty to Find Faith Through Doubt and Questioning The fastest growing religious group in America are the "Nones". They expe...

The Language of Fanaticism The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonesto...

Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America For fans of Fantasyland, The Road to Jonestown, and Howard Zinn, a colorful and enlightening pop history of Am...

Notes on the Pop Apocalypse From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"- New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engro...

The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality In a cultural moment when panics over the stories we tell are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions sh...

A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion ABORTION IS A MEN'S ISSUE. By making the case that men are responsible for all unintended pregnancies, Ejac...

America's Vanishing Foods A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Food & Wine Best Book of the Year - An Eater Best Food Book American...

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It Enshittification: it's not just you - the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how ...

What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers.In Erased, Anna Malaika Tu...

Mothering as Social Change From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration ...

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-open...

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis A National Bestseller - A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 - Named a Best Book of ...