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And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Peter Singer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1756
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles B. Dew
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012
Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Sheldon Vanauken
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977
A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837
Paul E. Johnson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de Las Casas
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1552
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021
Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1710
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel S.F. Heller
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1792
A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka
William Butler Yeats
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
Anna Julia Cooper
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy
Sonia Purnell
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
William Manchester
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012