7 Best history books like A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina

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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

By: Natalia Molina

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe…

If you liked the history plot in A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

By: Janisse Ray

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by th… read more

Similar categories in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Keith, A: Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith

2. Keith, A: Three Came Home

By: Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you."

-Agnes Newton Keith, Keith, A: Three Came Home

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3. An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)

By: Janet Frame

4.20

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

This autobiography traces Janet Frame's childhood in a poor but intellectually intense family, life… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death."

-Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)

"All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever the…"

-Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)

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4. The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

By: Shreve Stockton

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

When photographer and writer Shreve Stockton decided to move back to her beloved New York from San … read more

Similar categories in Shreve Stockton's The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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5. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from fre… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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6. Life and Death in Shanghai

By: Nien Cheng

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more

Similar categories in Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. I Choose to Live

By: Sabine Dardenne

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story by Tim Jones, Libby Riddles

8. Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

By: Tim Jones , Libby Riddles

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska… read more

Similar categories in Tim Jones's Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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9. Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope

By: Xavier Francisco Amador , Amanda LaPera , Xavier Amador

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Silver award recipient of IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin book award in the category of psycho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Unpolished Gem

By: Alice Pung

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

After Alice Pung's family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose A… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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11. The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.12

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with … read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

By: Jennifer Lauck

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Cross Creek

By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , Edward Shenton

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction

15. The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

By: Catherine Lockwood

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This version is now retired and has been republished - you will find the new edition on this page. … read more

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16. She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

By: Haven Kimmel

1.80

Format: 76 pages,

In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy,the woman rising heroically from the couch is … read more

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17. Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own

By: None

3.40

Format: None pages,

A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband… read more

Similar categories in None's Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

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18. Slings & Arrows

By: Julie Elizabeth Powell

3.96

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expects to lose a child but when it happens what can we do? In the sea of grief that seizes… read more

Similar categories in Julie Elizabeth Powell's Slings & Arrows book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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19. Saltwater

By: Cathy McLennan

4.10

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are inn… read more

Similar categories in Cathy McLennan's Saltwater book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction

20. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about wome… read more

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21. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's The Three Witches and The Master book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

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22. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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23. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Korshak's Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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24. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more

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"The fire on the mountain."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

25. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

26. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

27. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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28. Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path

By: Beth Koritz

3.99

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? "Things have got to chan… read more

Similar categories in Beth Koritz's Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • nonfiction
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29. The Triumph of Rosemary

By: Marylin E. Atkins

3.98

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

By: Natalia Molina

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind by Widad Akreyi

31. The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind

By: Widad Akreyi

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

WINNER of the PACEM IN TERRIS PEACE AND FREEDOM AWARD The Kurdish activist who became a global i… read more

Similar categories in Widad Akreyi's The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind book and Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

  • history
  • nonfiction
"It is only with the setting of the sun that one can judge how well the day had gone. Looking back through the vista of time, I can analyse and assess why I fought hard for my right to say no to joini…"

-Widad Akreyi, The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind

23 must-read nonfiction books like A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina

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Janisse Ray

4.02

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Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)

Janet Frame

4.20

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Shreve Stockton

3.10

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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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Max Nowaz

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Therisa Peimer

4.30

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Yvonne Korshak

4.29

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