The New American
By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and…
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1. The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)
By: Gail Tsukiyama
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the… read more
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2. Eleventh Hour (FBI Thriller, #7)
By: Catherine Coulter
4.19
Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Eleventh Hour. The murder of a priest leads FBI… read more
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- audiobook
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3. Book Scavenger (Book Scavenger, #1)
By: Sarah Watts , Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A hidden book. A found cipher. A game begins . . . . Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. He… read more
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4. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- audiobook
5. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
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- audiobook
6. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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7. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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- audiobook
8. Sabrina & Corina
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more
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"Age has nothing to do with sadness."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"And that is our story of everything."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
9. The New American
By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and… read more
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10. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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11. The Things We Didn’t Know
By: Elba Iris Pérez
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more
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12. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
13. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
14. 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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- audiobook
15. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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16. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
By: Brittany K. Barnett
4.59
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story ab… read more
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"Teachers, lawyers, social workers, activists-anyone who works with the directly impacted, anyone who confronts the system day in and day out-will tell you that residual trauma is real."-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"No matter how many times my dad urged me to reach for the stars, my understanding of the universe was still confined by the world' limited notion of what a Black country girl from the South could do …"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"A statue of a lone Confederate general towers over the Clarksville town center. To hear my grandpa tell it the general was built looking sternly over the Black side of town as a warning regarding whe…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"But it was 1996, and America's War on Drugs was in full throttle. Resources for drug treatment were scant, while money was being poured into law enforcement and prisons. People with addiction like Ma…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
17. The Other Americans
By: Laila Lalami
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful n… read more
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"Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sen…"-Laila Lalami, The Other Americans
18. The Displacements
By: Bruce Holsinger
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a l… read more
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19. Enter the Aardvark
By: Jessica Anthony
3.62
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-r… read more
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- contemporary
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"... explained to him how nature is not criminal. How common it was for certain African men on expedition to engage in what might be called "reciprocal sex." How it was common for these men to declare…"-Jessica Anthony, Enter the Aardvark
20. All the Right Notes
By: Dominic Lim
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this hilarious and joyous rom com, sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob a… read more
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21. The Bird Tattoo
By: Dunya Mikhail
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award-… read more
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