USA Public
Created by Eivind (like the Terrible)
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5 stars
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the …
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
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4 stars
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. …
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On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, Karen Chilton (Narrator)
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view …
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Maud Martha by Angela Lewis (Narrator), Gwendolyn Brooks, Margo Jefferson
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000) was an American poet, educator, and civil rights activist based in Chicago. Her first collection, …
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There There by Tommy Orange, Kyla Garcia, Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Narrator), and 2 others
4 stars
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a …
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
5 stars
We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation
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The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols (New Mexico Trilogy, #1)
Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his …
