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Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson,...

Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology An Indigenous env...

Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement Leading Binnizá and Maya Ch'orti' scientist Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D., weaves together Indige...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - New York Times Bestseller Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africa...

How Women Became America's Safety Net Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and di...

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminist...

The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America This important book "weaves lyrical storytelling and fascinating research into a compelling narr...

What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize A playful deep dive into anthropomorphism (our peculi...

A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Children's Book of 2021 A heartfelt story that explores the aftermath of deportation, I Wish You Knew cel...

Journeys in the Unspoken There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are no...

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime "What will we find in the uncut grass?""It depends on what we're looking fo...

Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the 2019 Royal Socie...

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five ye...

Meditations After an Attempted Murder From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal accou...

Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Longlisted for the National Book Award A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...

My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge...

The unforgettable debut from Stonewall Award Winner Alex Gino. BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George...

How You Can Make a Difference in the World Without a Bullhorn Nautilus Book Awards, Gold Winner Everyone can be an activist with the guidance of Om...

A Millennium in North America A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling thei...

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking ...

Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is...

The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG. - Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

The Big Hot Book of Death Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of dea...

A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 NOTABL...