Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
By: Sola Mahfouz
4.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doo…
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1. Intuition and the Mystical Life
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés , Clarissa P. Estes
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Audio
What if your could live your life in partnership with divinity, using intuition as your guide? Acco… read more
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2. To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage
By: Anhua Gao
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
To the "Edge of the Sky" is the harrowing account of a remarkable woman's life in communist China-a… read more
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3. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.96
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more
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"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
4. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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5. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- womens
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6. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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7. One Way Back: A Memoir
By: Christine Blasey Ford
4.30
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more
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8. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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9. No Ordinary Assignment
By: Jane Ferguson
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty o… read more
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10. Slum Boy: One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever written
By: Juano Diaz
4.52
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
"This is a heart-breaking story, beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers". - Andrew O'H… read more
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11. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
12. Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth
By: Megan Nix
4.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This "compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An i… read more
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13. Amy & Lan
By: Sadie Jones
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivati… read more
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14. Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
By: Sola Mahfouz
4.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doo… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- education
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15. Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
By: Tanya Frank
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother’s quest to accept her son’s journey through psycho… read more
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16. Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women
By: Pashtana Durrani
4.39
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Pashtana’s story highlights the resourcefulness and bravery of young women in Afghanistan. I hope … read more
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17. Prize Women
By: Caroline Lea
3.93
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The critically acclaimed author of The Glass Woman and The Metal Heart reimagines the shocking stor… read more
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18. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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19. The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
4.30
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuati… read more
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20. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
By: Ericka Waller
4.29
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more
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21. Elsewhere, Home
By: Leila Aboulela
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith … read more
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