A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World
By: Edna Adan Ismail
4.56
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastatin…
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1. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By: Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn
4.28
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervas… read more
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- feminism
- africa
- nonfiction
- education
"Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
"But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first."-Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
2. Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
By: Dith Pran , Kim DePaul
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary book contains eyewitness accounts of life in Cambodia during Pol Pot's genocidal… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. The Children Act
By: Ian McEwan
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case wh… read more
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- audiobook
4. The Orchard of Lost Souls
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of the acclaimed Orange-longlisted Black Mamba Boy. I… read more
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- africa
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5. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more
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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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7. A Patchwork Planet
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
For the first time in mass market paperback, this novel introduces 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitl… read more
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8. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
9. The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more
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- audiobook
"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
10. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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11. The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more
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"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path
12. The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #19)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.16
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, P… read more
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- africa
- audiobook
13. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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14. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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15. How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The next book in the perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotsw… read more
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- africa
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"... And unkindness was never the way to convert others to a truth of any sort. You did not change anybody, she had always believed, by shouting at them or by making them feel bad about themselves. On…"-Alexander McCall Smith, How to Raise an Elephant (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #21)
16. The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
By: Adam Kucharski
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the … read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. We, The Survivors
By: Tash Aw
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story … read more
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"Friendship is not necessary for closeness"-Tash Aw, We, The Survivors
18. A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World
By: Edna Adan Ismail
4.56
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastatin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- history
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- somalia
- education
- audiobook
19. The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
By: Nice Leng'ete
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The "incredibly powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) story of the human rights activist who changed the minds… read more
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- feminism
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- audiobook
20. The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors
By: Emily Smith
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to love your neighbor in today's fraught, divided world? Join Dr. Emily Smith, gl… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe
By: Anna Kent
4.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife's quest to help others -and make peace with herself ' LEAH… read more
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