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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place #1) Cover Image

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place #1) (Paperback)

By Tim Marshall
$18.00
ISBN: 9781501121470
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Published: Scribner - October 11th, 2016
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Cover Image

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Paperback)

By Lauret Savoy
$16.95
ISBN: 9781619028258
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Published: Counterpoint LLC - September 13th, 2016
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)

By Luis Alberto Urrea
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316010801
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 19th, 2005
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness Cover Image

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Paperback)

By Sy Montgomery
$16.99
ISBN: 9781451697728
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Published: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016
The Tender Land: A Family Love Story Cover Image

The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (Paperback)

By Kathleen Finneran
$17.95
ISBN: 9780618340743
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Published: Mariner Books - June 11th, 2003
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580911863
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Published: Crossing Press - August 1st, 2007
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Cover Image

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (Paperback)

By Michael W. Twitty
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062379276
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Published: Amistad - July 31st, 2018
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Cover Image

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)

By Robin Wall Kimmerer
$35.00
ISBN: 9781571311771
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Published: Milkweed Editions - October 13th, 2020
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Cover Image

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (Paperback)

By Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062319791
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Published: Harper Perennial - February 26th, 2019
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Cover Image

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (Paperback)

By Michael W. Twitty
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062379276
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Published: Amistad - July 31st, 2018
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Cover Image

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)

By David Grann
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307742483
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Published: Vintage - April 3rd, 2018
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Year of the Monkey (Paperback)

By Patti Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781984898920
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Published: Vintage - September 1st, 2020
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors Cover Image

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Paperback)

By Louise Erdrich
$14.99
ISBN: 9780062309969
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 11th, 2014
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Cover Image

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Paperback)

By Jenny Lawson
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250077028
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Published: Flatiron Books - February 7th, 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Cover Image

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)

By Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99
ISBN: 9780062316110
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Published: Harper Perennial - May 15th, 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Cover Image

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Cover Image

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Paperback)

By Allie Brosh
$21.00
ISBN: 9781451666175
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Published: Gallery Books - October 29th, 2013
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How Music Works (Paperback)

By David Byrne
$23.00
ISBN: 9780804188937
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Published: Crown - May 2nd, 2017
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Cover Image

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Paperback)

By Susan Cain
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307352156
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Published: Crown - January 29th, 2013
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (Paperback)

By Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by)
$15.99
ISBN: 9781328915344
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Published: Mariner Books - March 6th, 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$17.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
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Becoming (Hardcover)

By Michelle Obama
$32.50
ISBN: 9781524763138
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Published: Crown - November 13th, 2018
Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/O Lgbt Activism Cover Image

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/O Lgbt Activism (Paperback)

By Uriel Quesada (Editor), Letitia Gomez (Editor), Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (Editor)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781477307304
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Published: University of Texas Press - September 1st, 2015
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Cover Image

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Paperback)

By Anne Lamott
$16.00
ISBN: 9780385480017
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Published: Anchor - September 1st, 1995
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution Cover Image

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Paperback)

By China Miéville
$18.95
ISBN: 9781784782788
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Published: Verso - May 22nd, 2018
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My Own Words (Paperback)

By Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett (With), Wendy W. Williams (With)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781501145254
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 7th, 2018
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss Cover Image

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Hardcover)

By Margaret Renkl
$24.00
ISBN: 9781571313782
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Published: Milkweed Editions - July 9th, 2019
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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin
$13.95
ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) Cover Image

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics) (Paperback)

By Joan Didion
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374531386
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 28th, 2008
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity Cover Image

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Paperback)

By Julia Serano
$19.99
ISBN: 9781580056229
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Published: Seal Press - March 8th, 2016
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