Somewhere in the Unknown World
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.47
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Somewhere in the Unknown World is a themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world…
Want to Read $ 9.99"For the refugees from everywhere, men, women, and children, who's fates have been held by the interests of nations who's rights have been contested and denied, who's thirst and hunger go unheeded and unseen."-Kao Kalia Yang, Somewhere in the Unknown World
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1. The Making of Asian America: A History
By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
- audiobook
2. Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
By: None
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One day I realized that my entire back seat was filled with relatives who wondered why I wasn't pay… read more
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- history
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
By: Laurie Notaro
3.43
Format: 42 pages,
It's the most wonderful - and most dreadful - season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack you… read more
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4. Lailah's Lunchbox
By: Reem Faruqi
3.29
Format: None pages,
Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her fam… read more
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5. On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
By: Jen Lin-Liu
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures an… read more
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6. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)
By: Marcie R. Rendon
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more
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7. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- adult
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8. 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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- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs
By: Laura Tremaine
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Offering a path for a new way to think about friendships, The Life Council will inspire and equip y… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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10. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
By: Amanda Oliver
3.25
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society tod… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
12. Navigate Your Stars
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.19
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the po… read more
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- memoir
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"I realized education wasn't one choice. It was a lifetime undertaking."-Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars
"Success is not the result of making one good choice, of taking one step. Real success requires step, after step, after step, after step. It requires choice after choice, it demands life-long educatio…"-Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars
13. Across the Desert
By: Dusti Bowling
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more
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- audiobook
14. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
15. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
16. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
By: Junauda Petrus
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story … read more
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- audiobook
"You got to be yourself or else you end up someone else you probably don’t like."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"Her eyes were laughing and unashamed, like they had only known yes her whole life."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"I hearing Queenie’s words: “Let the pain leave out of you with each breath. It want to be free too,"-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
"And nothing in life prepares you to live, truly live… you alive until you ain’t, so live in any way you can."-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
17. Float Up, Sing Down
By: Laird Hunt
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where t… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- audiobook
18. Call Me American: A Memoir
By: Abdi Nor Iftin
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way … read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
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19. Somewhere in the Unknown World
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.47
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Somewhere in the Unknown World is a themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world… read more
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- history
- memoir
- anthologies
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"For the refugees from everywhere, men, women, and children, who's fates have been held by the interests of nations who's rights have been contested and denied, who's thirst and hunger go unheeded and…"-Kao Kalia Yang, Somewhere in the Unknown World
20. Hao: Stories
By: Ye Chun
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following … read more
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- short stories
21. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
22. The English Experience
By: Julie Schumacher
3.91
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he’s the only professor… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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- memoir
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24. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
25. Funeral for a Friend (Jonathan Stride, #10)
By: Brian Freeman
4.18
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
You re safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him. Jonathan Stride s best friend,… read more
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26. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
27. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
By: Lorna Landvik
3.90
Format: None pages, ebook
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times trace… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives."-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only …"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happ…"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
28. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
29. America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
By: Ariel Aberg-Riger
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Red… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- social justice
30. Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
By: Kevin A. Patterson
4.39
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"Don't let discomfort silence you when your voice can lead to a better situation for all of us."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"Inclusivity has to be seen as a benefit to the community. The lack of diversity has to be seen as a detriment to that community."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"No group wants to be known locally or widely as "the group that is thoughtlessly, carelessly or intentionally unwelcoming to people of color."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
31. Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine
By: Loretta Barrett Oden
4.15
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, among a host of grandmothers and aunties, Loretta Barrett Oden lea… read more
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