The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
By: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
4.52
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat …
Want to Read $ 9.99"We like to see our enemies as fairy-tale villains, thoroughly wicked. But Tata sees nuances. He sees people, not causes or countries. It's the right way of looking at the world, I know. But unpopular."-Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
"We like to see our enemies as fairy-tale villains, thoroughly wicked. But Tata sees nuances. He sees people, not causes or countries. It's the right way of looking at the world, I know. But unpopular."-Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
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1. Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
By: Peter Maass
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the h… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- nonfiction
"I am a lawyer, and for me it is very sad to say that there is now law here. There are weapons rather than law. What did Mao say? Power comes out of the barrel of a gun. It's very true. The situation …"-Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
"In this city, the victors had delusions of grandeur. It was visual. Across the street from the hotel stood City Hall, sporting an oversized Serb flag that hung from the roof to the ground, a hundred …"-Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
"Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the road. The most hideous hall…"-Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
"The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed,…"-Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
2. The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
By: Julian Borger
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
- audiobook
3. Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood
By: Barbara Demick , John Edmond Costello
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
4. The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
By: Susan Shapiro , Kenan Trebincevic
3.40
Format: 320 pages,
A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. Sarajevo Blues
By: Semezdin Mehmedinović , Ammiel Alcalay
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers; spare and haunting stories and poems that we… read more
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6. Hachiko Waits
By: Lesléa Newman , Machiyo Kodaira
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Profoundly sad and hopeful at the same time . . . Hachiko Waits shows us the very best in life; lo… read more
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7. The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more
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- audiobook
8. What I Carry
By: Jennifer Longo
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Library Binding
For readers of Robin Benway's Far From the Tree, a powerful and heartwarming look at a teen girl ab… read more
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- audiobook
"The entire fucking point of being born is that someone is supposed to take care of you."-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry
"Not being perfect is for people who have families; you can screw up and they still keep you."-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry
"Memory is a fascinating thing. Months and years can pass, uneventful and lost, but then certain tiny moments, pieces of conversation or feelings within the thousands of blank days stay sharp, clear l…"-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry
"It's not like I'm dead inside. It's that I'm allergic to manufactured, insincere emotion. A lifetime of people saying one thing but doing the opposite has inoculated me, and now I understand how to s…"-Jennifer Longo, What I Carry
9. Saints of the Household
By: Ari Tison
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more
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- audiobook
10. Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II
By: Adam Gidwitz
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the firs… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
By: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
4.52
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- teen
- graphic novels
- war
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We like to see our enemies as fairy-tale villains, thoroughly wicked. But Tata sees nuances. He sees people, not causes or countries. It's the right way of looking at the world, I know. But unpopular."-Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
12. La bastarda
By: Trifonia Melibea Obono
3.55
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
La protagonista, Okomo, una adolescente de etnia fang, atrapada en un sistema de valores que no le … read more
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13. When the Ground Is Hard
By: Malla Nunn
4.15
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more
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"Jane is stuck in the space between things."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
14. Eva Evergreen and the Cursed Witch (Eva Evergreen, #2)
By: Julie Abe
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From this day forward, we will believe in the impossible. Eva Evergreen has fulfilled her dream … read more
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15. When You Look Like Us
By: Pamela N. Harris
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—people think you’re trouble. No… read more
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"Doesn't matter that I'm the guy in here trying to work. My popping melanin makes me the aggressor in every situation."-Pamela N. Harris, When You Look Like Us
16. Six Truths and a Lie
By: Ream Shukairy
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more
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17. Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit
By: Colby Cedar Smith
4.27
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
This book won the 2023 Michigan Notable Books Award! This enchanting novel in verse captures one… read more
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- teen
- audiobook
"I feel like someone has thrown a stone into the heavens and smashed the stars. We are falling from the sky."-Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit
18. Break to You
By: Neal Shusterman
3.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young a… read more
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- audiobook
19. One in a Million: A Graphic Memoir
By: Claire Lordon
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Debut graphic novelist Claire Lordon’s medical misfortunes may be one in a million in this relatabl… read more
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20. An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
By: Deborah Noyes
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping tale of paranoia at its worst, An Outbreak of Witchcraft visually imagines the haunting … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- teen
21. Basil & Dahlia: A Tragical Tale of Sinister Sweetness
By: Joy McCullough
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two orphan siblings with truly terrible luck battle an evil celebrity chef in this uproarious illus… read more
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