Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
By: Anna Qu
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf…
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1. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. The Wide Circumference of Love
By: Marita Golden
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning author, a moving story of acceptance, adaptation, and unconditional love in t… read more
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- family
3. The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
By: Stephan Talty
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat." --Jack Weatherford,auth… read more
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4. Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
By: Liz Pryor
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A vivid portrait of a secret teenage pregnancy, in 1979, that would change the author's life foreve… read more
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5. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
6. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
By: Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
7. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
8. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
9. House of Sticks
By: Ly Tran
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
By: Anna Qu
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- china
- adult
- audiobook
11. Deceit and Other Possibilities
By: Vanessa Hua
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new A… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
12. The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
By: Laura Trethewey
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Legitimate Kid: A Memoir
By: Aida Rodríguez
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overco… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
By: Amelia Pang
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap… read more
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- history
- asia
- nonfiction
- china
- audiobook
15. Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
By: Kat Chow
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander, an intimate and haunting portrait of grief … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"Our time with our mother was a past life—some version of ourselves from which we’d become estranged."-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"But, Mommy, grief is a container of contradictions. I want to expel something, though I do not know what. I want to rid myself of this heaviness, just as much as I want to keep your ghosts."-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"I often tell myself, I am young, my body is strong, and I delay making appointment after appointment, physical after physical, until I think about my mother, and I schedule something for the next wee…"-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
"My father often talks of survival - do whatever is necessary to succeed - but where in this idea does satisfaction factor? Mommy, I am asking about your happiness - and yet, I am only able to reach a…"-Kat Chow, Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
16. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
By: Elizabeth Miki Brina
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to unde… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It’s not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
"My mother and I speak different languages. Her native language is Japanese. My native language is English. This might seem like a mundane fact about us. It's not. It dictates everything. Because even…"-Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
17. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
18. Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Catherine Ceniza Choy
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any … read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. The Bright Side: Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle
By: Cathrin Bradbury
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Anyone who has had their life completely gutted and rewired will adore this family story. Bradbury'… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. My Dead Parents: A Memoir
By: Anya Yurchyshyn
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“In this beautifully written, poignant, honest, and unflinching work, the author takes readers with… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Handsome
By: Holly Lorka
4.10
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
As a horny little kid, Holly Lorka had no idea why God had put her in the wrong body and made her w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
