The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
By: N. Scott Momaday
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
By: Kao Kalia Yang
3.84
Format: 352 pages,
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn j… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The White Cottage Mystery
By: Margery Allingham
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Seven people might have murdered Eric Crowther, the mysterious recluse who lived in the gaunt house… read more
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3. The Weary Blues
By: Langston Hughes
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more
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- poetry
- race
4. Into the Beautiful North
By: Luis Alberto Urrea , None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, w… read more
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5. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
By: Joy Harjo
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more
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6. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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7. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
By: Peter S. Beagle
3.78
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more
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- adult
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
8. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.72
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more
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"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
9. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
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" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
10. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
11. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
12. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- race
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"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
13. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
14. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- race
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- adult
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
15. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)
By: Michael Scott-Baumann
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
18. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- race
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19. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
20. American Melancholy: Poems
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce C… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
21. Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
By: Alan Cumming
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate--and most importantly--a happy human… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
22. Even As We Breathe
By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more
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- indigenous
23. The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
By: N. Scott Momaday
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
“These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deep… read more
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- race
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- anthologies
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- adult
24. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
25. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more
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- race
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- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- adult
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
26. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- anthologies
27. Erosion: Essays of Undoing
By: Terry Tempest Williams
4.24
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist … read more
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- nonfiction
"Rather than anchoring our hope beyond the struggle, always projecting ahead, perhaps locating joy within the struggle through our full presence can be our essential gesture at this moment in time. To…"-Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing
28. Catching the Light (Why I Write)
By: Joy Harjo
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant point… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
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"Eventually, we all make it home, and we each make an individual path by any means."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
"When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it."-Joy Harjo, Catching the Light (Why I Write)
29. Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
By: Mona Delahooke
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding o… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)
By: Adrienne Chung
4.18
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
“ Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Ch… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
31. Thor, Vol. 4: God of Hammers
By: Donny Cates
3.69
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Mjolnir, the powerful Uru hammer that Thor has wielded in battle for centuries, has gone missing! A… read more
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