Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
By: Alejandra Oliva
4.25
Format: 320 pages, None
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell…
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1. Thin Skin: Essays
By: Jenn Shapland
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions
By: Myriam Gurba
4.37
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions
3. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
4. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- audiobook
5. The Militia House
By: John Milas
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly origi… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
6. Lush Lives
By: J. Vanessa Lyon
3.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about b… read more
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- adult
7. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
8. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- audiobook
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
9. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
10. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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- audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
11. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
By: Alejandra Oliva
4.25
Format: 320 pages, None
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more
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- biography
- history
- memoir
- language
- politics
- spanish literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. Hot Springs Drive
By: Lindsay Hunter
3.52
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more
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- audiobook
13. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. And Then He Sang a Lullaby
By: Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and res… read more
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- adult
19. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
20. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
By: Marie Arana
4.29
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
