Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
10 best books like Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (Susan Burton): Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Olio Live, Shadowhouse Fall, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, The Zoo Story, The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
Author | Mitchell S. Jackson |
ISBN | 1501131702 |
An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This dynamic book explores...
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
Author | Richard Dawkins |
ISBN | 1787631214 |
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.
Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve...
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Author | Angela Y. Davis |
ISBN | 1608465640 |
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism,...
The word "olio" means a hodgepodge, or a miscellaneous collection of literary or musical selections. In Olio Live - a very special one-night performance recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theater in February 2019 - poet Tyehimba Jess introduces listeners to his 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection...
Author | Daniel José Older |
ISBN | 0545952824 |
Shadowhouse rising
Sierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a beast called the Hound of Light—an image from the enigmatic, influential Deck of Worlds. The Deck...
Author | Neil Simon |
ISBN | 0452275288 |
The first in Neil Simon’s "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound
Winner of a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play
Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other—with...
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of violent crime
Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers...
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Author | Chris Arnade |
ISBN | 0525534733 |
Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.
Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...
Author | Edward Albee |
ISBN | 0698104188 |
Book Review
4 out of 5 stars to The Zoo Story, written in 1959 by Edward Albee. If you haven't read this story, you've missed out on something intense and truly spellbinding. It's a classic American play staged on Broadway (and other places), but so few have probably read it these days. The story...
The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
Author | William McCants |
ISBN | 1250080908 |
The so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has inspired young men and women all over the world to commit horrible atrocities in its name. By the thousands, they have flooded into the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria and Iraq and carried out attacks under its black banner in nearly every continent. How...
Development Through the Lifespan
Author | Laura E. Berk |
ISBN | 0205491251 |
Development Through the Lifespan, Laura E. Berk
Laura Berk, renowned professor and researcher in the field of human development, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment, and expanded coverage of biology, culture, and social...
California Master Gardener Handbook
Author | Dennis R. Pittenger |
ISBN | 1879906546 |
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God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
Author | Dan Barker |
ISBN | 1454918322 |
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling...
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
It is a very responsible thing to translate the Holy Scriptures from their original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern speech. Translating the Holy Scriptures means rendering into another language the thoughts and sayings of Jehovah God, the heavenly Author of this sacred library...
The American Promise, Value Edition, Combined Volume
Author | James L. Roark |
ISBN | 1457687925 |
The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, all in a portable format. Instructors have long valued the full narrative accompanied by a 2-color map program and the rich instructor...
Author | Ernest Hemingway |
ISBN | 0848805240 |
The Nick Adams Stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer & parent--a sequence closely paralleling events of Hemingway's life.
The 1st section, called Northern Woods, includes "Three Shots", "Indian Camp", "The Doctor & the Doctor's...
A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
Author | Donna Hylton |
ISBN | 0316559253 |
Today, Donna Hylton is a groundbreaking advocate for criminal justice reform–she was a featured speaker at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, and she works hand-in-hand with other influential voices such as Eve Ensler, Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow), and Rosario Dawson to ensure prison...
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Author | Charlene Carruthers |
ISBN | 0807019410 |
A nationally recognized activist's 21st century guide to liberation through a Black queer feminist lens.
Appearing on The Roots' annual list, in 2017, as one of the most influential young African Americans, Carruthers--at age 32--is among a handful of high profile activists. Her debut...