{"title":"The Cedar Edit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Cedar Edit is a weekly selection of six books gathered around a passing theme, mood, or curiosity. Chosen by hand and refreshed regularly, it's a small window into what's catching our attention at Cedar Leaf Books right now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"letter-from-birmingham-jail","title":"Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eLetter from Birmingham Jail\u003c\/em\u003e is Martin Luther King Jr.’s response to a group of white clergymen who criticized his presence and tactics in Birmingham in 1963. Written from a jail cell on scraps of paper, the letter lays out a clear defense of nonviolent direct action, the urgency of confronting injustice, and the difference between just and unjust laws. King’s argument is tightly reasoned and deeply moral, moving from theology and philosophy to the concrete realities of segregation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it remains one of the most important pieces of American political writing, and it is short enough to reread often. \u003cem\u003eLetter from Birmingham Jail\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful pick for students, organizers, and anyone thinking seriously about protest, law, and the ethics of resistance.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: Martin Luther King Jr.\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: HarperOne\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: January 14, 2025\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780063425835\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006639792172,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at11.06.57.png?v=1763482023"},{"product_id":"moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game","title":"Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game\u003c\/em\u003e follows the Oakland A’s front office as they try to build a competitive baseball team on a fraction of big‑market budgets. Michael Lewis focuses on general manager Billy Beane and the analysts who lean on on‑base percentage, overlooked players, and market inefficiencies instead of traditional scouting wisdom. The book reads like a mix of front‑office thriller and ideas‑driven nonfiction, showing how data can upend an old system without flattening the human drama.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it’s one of the clearest, most entertaining introductions to analytics in sports and to how numbers can change decision‑making. \u003cem\u003eMoneyball\u003c\/em\u003e is a strong pick for baseball fans, readers of narrative nonfiction, and anyone curious about what happens when data collides with tradition.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: Michael Lewis\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: March 17, 2004\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780393324815\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006640283692,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at11.29.08.png?v=1763483353"},{"product_id":"mr-president","title":"Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMr. President\u003c\/em\u003e is Miguel Ángel Asturias’s portrait of a fictional Central American dictatorship, written with the density and dream logic that helped shape Latin American modernism. The novel moves through soldiers, bureaucrats, and ordinary citizens caught in the orbit of an almost mythical ruler, showing how fear and flattery distort language, memory, and daily life. Rather than a straightforward political thriller, it reads like a fever dream of authoritarianism, where rumor and reality are hard to separate.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it is a foundational novel of dictatorship in Latin American literature and still feels unnervingly current. \u003cem\u003eMr. President\u003c\/em\u003e is a strong pick for readers interested in political fiction, early experiments that prefigure the Boom, and stories about how power seeps into every corner of a society.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: Miguel Ángel Asturias\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: July 12, 2022\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780143136385\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006640316460,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at11.31.02.png?v=1763483467"},{"product_id":"natural","title":"The Natural by Bernard Malamud","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Natural\u003c\/em\u003e follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is derailed early and then unexpectedly revived years later. Malamud frames Roy’s return to the game as a kind of American myth, full of symbolic objects, larger‑than‑life figures, and bad choices that feel both fated and avoidable. The prose is lean and slightly off‑kilter, more interested in archetype and moral weather than in box‑score realism.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it’s one of the key mid‑century baseball novels and a strange, haunting book in its own right. \u003cem\u003eThe Natural\u003c\/em\u003e is a strong pick for readers who like sports stories with a mythic edge and an undercurrent of melancholy.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: Bernard Malamud\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: July 7, 2003\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780374502003\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006640447532,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at13.19.59.png?v=1763490004"},{"product_id":"rabbit-run","title":"Rabbit, Run by John Updike","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/em\u003e follows Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a former high‑school basketball star who bolts from his marriage and small‑town life in a burst of panic and longing. Updike tracks Rabbit’s flight and return with close, almost claustrophobic attention to gesture, landscape, and interior monologue. The novel is as much about postwar American restlessness as it is about one man’s bad decisions.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it’s the opening movement of one of the major American novel cycles of the twentieth century. \u003cem\u003eRabbit, Run\u003c\/em\u003e is a strong pick for readers interested in domestic realism, mid‑century disillusionment, and granular psychological detail.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: John Updike\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: August 27, 1996\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780449911655\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006640840748,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at13.45.36.png?v=1763491544"},{"product_id":"where-do-we-go-from-here-chaos-or-community","title":"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWhere Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?\u003c\/em\u003e is Martin Luther King Jr.’s final book, written in 1967 as he assessed the victories and unfinished work of the civil rights movement. King looks beyond legal desegregation to questions of economic justice, political power, and global solidarity, warning against backlash while arguing for a more expansive vision of equality. The tone is sober but not resigned, combining sharp analysis with a stubborn insistence on possibility.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eWHY WE PICKED IT\u003cbr\u003eBecause it shows King at his most forward‑looking and system‑focused, in ways that still feel current. \u003cem\u003eWhere Do We Go from Here\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for anyone thinking about what comes after protest and how movements sustain themselves.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eDETAILS\u003cbr\u003e• Author: Martin Luther King Jr.\u003cbr\u003e• Publisher: Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e• Publication Date: January 1, 2010\u003cbr\u003e• Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e• ISBN: 9780807000670\u003cbr\u003e• Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006641561644,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/Screenshot2025-11-18at14.37.12.png?v=1763494640"}],"url":"https:\/\/cedarleafbooks.com\/collections\/the-cedar-edit.oembed","provider":"Cedar Leaf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}