The Jamestown Project

10 best books like The Jamestown Project (Karen Ordahl Kupperman): The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Happiness, Like Water, Shah of Shahs, What Work Is, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America, The Last Stone, New Paris: The People, Places & Ideas Fueling a Movement

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

Author	Michelle Alexander
ISBN	1595581030

"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Author	Brittney Cooper
ISBN	1250112575

An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Bustle • The Root • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace")

Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching,...

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Author	Ross Gay
ISBN	0822963310

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death,...

Happiness, Like Water

Author	Chinelo Okparanta
ISBN	0544003454

Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a...

Shah of Shahs

Author	Ryszard Kapuściński
ISBN	0679738010

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled...

What Work Is

Author	Philip Levine
ISBN	0679740589

Winner of the National Book Award in 1991
 
“This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous...

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

Author	Stephanie E. Smallwood
ISBN	0674023498

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.

Smallwood's...

The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America

Author	Paul E. Johnson
ISBN	0195098358

During The Second Great Awakening’s religious revival of evangelicalism, Robert Matthews- the self-appointed prophet Matthias- was one of many to create and spread his own ultimately doomed religion, a patriarchal Kingdom of Truth in which Matthias sat at the head as the Father and redeemer....

The Last Stone

Author

Mark Bowden

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, disappeared during a trip to a
shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. Three days later, eighteen-year-old Lloyd Welch visited the Montgomery County Police with a tip: he had seen the Lyons girls at the mall that day and had...

New Paris: The People, Places & Ideas Fueling a Movement

Author	Lindsey Tramuta
ISBN	1419724037

The city long-adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy. Journalist Lindsey Tramuta...

Becoming the Dark Prince

Author

Kerri Maniscalco

In this irresistibly-priced short story, catch a glimpse of the inner struggles and triumphs that drive Stalking Jack the Ripper's endearing but troubled hero.

Enigmatic, brooding, and darkly handsome, Thomas Cresswell has always been the one mystery Audrey Rose has never been able to...

Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World

Author	Carla Gardina Pestana
ISBN	0812241509

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that Europeans created. Protestant Empire is the first...