10 Top nonfiction books like Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

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Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

4.50

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Pearl Thief

By: Noor Al Noaimi

3.10

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a lovely little short story about Hassan, a poor Bahraini islander, who finds himself in de… read more

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  • adult
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2. In the Name of the Father (And of the Son)

By: Immanuel Mifsud

3.63

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Back from his fathers funeral, the narrator starts reading a diary his father kept during his days … read more

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3. soft magic.

By: Upile Chisala

3.90

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

'soft magic.' is the debut collection of prose and poetry by Malawian writer, Upile Chisala. This b… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"I must warn you, There is soft juju in my thighs."

-Upile Chisala, soft magic.

"I am dripping melanin and honey I am black without apology."

-Upile Chisala, soft magic.

"Please Feed your sons the same softness you feed your daughters."

-Upile Chisala, soft magic.

"Tell me all the stories that start in your smile and end in your eyes."

-Upile Chisala, soft magic.

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4. My Urohs

By: Emelihter Kihleng

3.81

Format: 61 pages, Paperback

The first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by di… read more

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  • poetry
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5. The Tale of Aypi

By: Ak Welsapar

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ingenting ar som vanligt i den lilla fiskebyn vid Kaspiska havets kust. Myndigheterna har forbjudit… read more

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  • 21st century
  • the world
  • contemporary
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6. Teatro Grottesco

By: Thomas Ligotti

4.29

Format: 128 pages,

This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns,… read more

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7. So Long a Letter

By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more

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8. The Man with the Compound Eyes

By: Wu Ming-Yi , Darryl Sterk

3.89

Format: 202 pages, ebook

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice … read more

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9. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative

By: Mary Prince

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more

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10. Imaginary Maps

By: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Mahasweta Devi

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Imaginary Mapspresents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with r… read more

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11. The Ruin of a Rake (The Turner Series, #3)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But af… read more

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12. The Ultimate Tragedy

By: Jethro Soutar , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of… read more

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13. Last Night in Nuuk

By: Niviaq Korneliussen

3.59

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a work of daring invent… read more

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  • contemporary
  • adult
  • indigenous
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14. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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15. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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  • climate change
  • adult
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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16. The Desert and the Drum

By: Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

3.88

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It w… read more

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  • the world
  • adult
  • contemporary
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17. A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

3.89

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more

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  • adult
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18. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

4.50

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) book and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

  • poetry
  • school
  • the world
  • indigenous
  • read for school
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • climate change
  • adult
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19. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Cantoras

By: Carolina De Robertis

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel abo… read more

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  • adult
"Safe is never given. Safe is what you make with your own hands."

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Maybe everyone bore the wounds, no matter what had or hadn't happened to them; maybe they were all part of the same vast, bruised body in the shape of a nation. A body groping for the slightest illus…"

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

"Only later, as their bodies merged, would she feel Malena's own hunger under the surface, waiting, quiet, like a creature unsuited to the hunt. It was enough and a relief to Romina. It seemed, at tim…"

-Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras

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21. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Co-wives, Co-widows

By: Adrienne Yabouza

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows … read more

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  • 21st century
  • adult
  • contemporary
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23. Dhon Hiyala aai Alifulhu

By: Abdoulla Sadiq

3.16

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • the world
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24. Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

By: Jen Campbell

4.34

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

25. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

By: Julian Aguon

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disast… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series) by No‘u Revilla

26. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)

By: No‘u Revilla

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Pérez

27. Habitat Threshold

By: Craig Santos Pérez

4.30

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explo… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women's Anthology

By: Mikaela Nyman

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women – … read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • indigenous
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29. She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 4 (Volume 4) (She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, 4)

By: Sakaomi Yuzaki

4.67

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

ともに歩もう、 信じた道を。シリーズ累計50万部突破「つくたべ」最新刊 バレンタインを目前に控えた 野本さんと春日さん。 お互いにチョコレートを贈る準備をしたり、 友人に気持ちの相談をし… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Coconut Milk (Sun Tracks) by Dan Taulapapa McMullin

30. Coconut Milk (Sun Tracks)

By: Dan Taulapapa McMullin

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Coconut Milk is a fresh, new poetry collection that is a sensual homage to place, people, love, and… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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31. We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

By: Epeli Hauʻofa

4.31

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing ove… read more

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  • poetry
  • the world
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
"Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming."

-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are …"

-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

"One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism.…"

-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works

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4.17

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3.59

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