Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By: Maud Newton
3.34
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–an…
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1. Feeding the Soul (Souls of Chicago, #1)
By: Annabella Michaels
3.87
Format: 54 pages,
Giovanni Romero had been dealt his fair share of heartbreak throughout his thirty years, including … read more
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2. Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing
By: Megan Smolenyak
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hit shows like "Who Do You Think You Are?" and "History Detectives" demonstrate that people are fas… read more
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3. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- memoir
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
4. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
5. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
By: Burkhard Bilger
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more
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- historical
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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7. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
By: Alejandra Oliva
4.25
Format: 320 pages, None
The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more
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8. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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9. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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- audiobook
10. Never Simple
By: Liz Scheier
3.73
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love betwee… read more
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"Clearly I hadn't actually won the Shitty Family Olympics, just placed in the qualifiers. It could've been worse."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
"Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted."-Liz Scheier, Never Simple
11. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
3.59
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more
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12. How to Read Now
By: Elaine Castillo
4.03
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now
13. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
By: Kerri K. Greenidge
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for re… read more
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- historical
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14. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By: Maud Newton
3.34
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–an… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- science
15. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
3.99
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more
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16. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more
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17. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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18. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her
By: Erika Bolstad
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one… read more
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19. Perfect English Style: Creating Rooms That Are Comfortable, Pleasing, and Timeless
By: Ros Byam Shaw
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Some styles of decorating have a longer shelf life than others. One of the most durable is what has… read more
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20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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21. Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal
By: Laura Trujillo
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this “seismically moving memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman a… read more
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