View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Justin Akers Chacon, Mike Davis

Published: 2016-11-15

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

“A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.”—Susan Faludi“[Davis’ writing is] perceptive and rigorous.”—David Montgomery, The Nation“[Davis’ work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.”—The Village V...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The United States of Fear

by Tom Engelhardt

Published: 2011-12-13

Paperback: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet’s ?sole superpower” would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence.In his new book The ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

by Arundhati Roy, John Cusack

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

In late 2014, Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, and Daniel Ellsberg travelled to Moscow to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.The result was a series of essays and dialogues in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their conversations with Snowden.In these provocative and penetrating discussio...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

We Are the Ants

by Shaun David Hutchinson

Published: 2016-01-19

Hardcover: 464 pages

0 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatu...

View Reading GUide

* * * * *

Be the first to rate this book!

Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise

by Lucinda Hawksley

Published: 2015-12-08

Hardcover: 384 pages

1 member reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, oft...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Trial and Error

by Anthony Berkeley

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 272 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Non-descript, upstanding Mr Todhunter is told that he has only months to live. He decides to commit a murder for the good of mankind. Finding a worthy victim proves far from easy, and there is a false start before he settles on and dispatches his target. But then the police arrest an innocent man, and...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

No Wind of Blame (Country House Mysteries)

by Georgette Heyer

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible?no one was near the murder weapon at the time the shot was fired. Everyone on the scene seems to have a motive, not to mention the wherewithal to commit murder, and alibis that simply don't hol...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Nonesuch (Regency Romances)

by Georgette Heyer

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 337 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

"Triumphantly good?Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." ? India Knight, Sunday TelegraphAn impetuous flight...Tiffany Wield's bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf " at twenty-eight, Ancilla Trent strives to be a calming influence on her tempestuous charge, but then Ti...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Ashes (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Published: 2016-10-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Return to the American Revolution in this blistering conclusion to the trilogy that began with the bestselling National Book Award Finalist Chains and continued with Forge, which The New York Times called “a return not only to the colonial era but to historical accuracy.”As the Revolut...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Interesting,
Insightful,
Informative

22 club reviews

Review This book

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah

Published: 2019-02-12

Paperback: 304 pages

114 members reading this now
418 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 22 of 22 members

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told wi...