Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s…
Want to Read $ 7.99"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most quiet form of everyday violence."-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
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1. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
By: Deborah A. Miranda
4.26
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
This book leads readers through a troubled past using the author's family circle as a touch point a… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- race
- nonfiction
3. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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- race
- native american
- indigenous
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
4. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- native american
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
5. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
6. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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- race
- native american
- indigenous
"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
7. 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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- native american
- indigenous
"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
8. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
9. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
10. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
11. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
12. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- race
- nonfiction
13. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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14. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
By: Toni Jensen
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in s… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Toni Jensen's Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land book and Toni Jensen's Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
- race
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- native american
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most …"-Toni Jensen, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
15. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
16. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
By: Laila Lalami
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
17. Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
By: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
4.10
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-impris… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"كان الإنجيل مفيدٌ جداً في فهم المجتمعات الغربيّة، ومع ذلك فإنّ الكثيرين منهم ينكرون تأثّرهم بالكتب الدينية المقدّسة."-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases."-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"ЩғШ§ЩҶ Ш§Щ„ШҘЩҶШ¬ЩҠЩ„ Щ…ЩҒЩҠШҜЩҢ Ш¬ШҜШ§ЩӢ ЩҒЩҠ ЩҒЩҮЩ… Ш§Щ„Щ…Ш¬ШӘЩ…Ш№Ш§ШӘ Ш§Щ„ШәШұШЁЩҠЩ‘Ш©ШҢ ЩҲЩ…Ш№ Ш°Щ„Щғ ЩҒШҘЩҶЩ‘ Ш§Щ„ЩғШ«ЩҠШұЩҠЩҶ Щ…ЩҶЩҮЩ… ЩҠЩҶЩғШұЩҲЩҶ ШӘШЈШ«Щ‘ШұЩҮЩ… ШЁШ§Щ„ЩғШӘШЁ Ш§Щ„ШҜЩҠЩҶЩҠШ© Ш§…"-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"إنّ مشكلة الإرهاب بأكمله كانت نتيجةً للعدوان الإسرائيلي ضد المدنيين الفلسطينيين، ومساندة الولايات المتحدة العَلَنيّة للحكومة الإسرائيلية في عدوانها، وذلك عندما استولى الإسرائيليون على فلسطين بنيران المداف…"-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
18. Dog Flowers: A Memoir
By: Danielle Geller
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and ret… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- native american
- indigenous
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"The argument shifted, and she told me I was stupid to marry a man I had just met. It wasn't possible for me to know him. And when I tried to tell her what I loved about him—our shared worldview, the …"-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir
"After my mother's pastor left her room, I stood there berating myself for agreeing to let him pray. If I were more like Eileen, I could channel my rage and do some real damage. I would be better equi…"-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir
19. The Beadworkers
By: Beth Piatote
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscape… read more
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- race
- native american
- indigenous
20. Ma and Me
By: Putsata Reang
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
By: Mary-Alice Daniel
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
