Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr…
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1. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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2. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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3. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- audiobook
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
4. 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
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"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
5. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
By: Annabelle Tometich
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more
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6. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
7. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
8. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
By: Trish O'Kane
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more
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9. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
10. Daughters of Shandong
By: Eve J. Chung
4.50
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more
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11. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
By: Susan Page
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more
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12. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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13. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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14. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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15. Doorman Wanted
By: Glenn R. Miller
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, th… read more
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16. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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17. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
18. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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19. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more
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20. The Glassmaker
By: Tracy Chevalier
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more
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"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker
21. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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