The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition): An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
By: Sandy Tolan
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town…
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1. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
2. I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived, #11)
By: Lauren Tarshis
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Could an entire city really burn to the ground? Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
3. Blood Brothers
By: Elias Chacour , David Hazard
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were pro… read more
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4. Level Up
By: Gene Luen Yang , Thien Pham
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Dennis Ouyang has always struggled in the shadow of his parents' expectations. His path is laid out… read more
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5. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
6. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- audiobook
8. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more
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- audiobook
9. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Probability of Everything
By: Sarah Everett
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
12. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
By: Dan Gemeinhart
4.54
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)
13. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- nonfiction
- childrens
- education
- audiobook
14. Uprising
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
15. Both Things Are True
By: Kate Holbrook
4.47
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Smith’s observation that “by proving contraries, truth is made manifest” has become a belove… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. The Mystery of Locked Rooms
By: Lindsay Currie
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
17. Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need
By: Jessica Smartt
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
As parents we want to safeguard our children from the pressures and influences of the world, but al… read more
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- nonfiction
- childrens
- education
- audiobook
"The last few years have shown a push for early preschool attendance. So much so that these words may actually sound like heresy. But I will say them anyways: if you do not want to send your kid to pr…"-Jessica Smartt, Let Them Be Kids: Adventure, Boredom, Innocence, and Other Gifts Children Need
18. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
By: Emily Farris
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. The Getaway List
By: Emma Lord
3.58
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more
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"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"-Emma Lord, The Getaway List
20. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- history
- memoir
- israel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Deep Water
By: Jamie Sumner
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An impactful, gripping middle grade novel in verse from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner that spans on… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
22. Mercy Watson is Missing!
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.38
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
Every favorite character from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books makes… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
23. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
24. The Children's Story
By: James Clavell
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from… read more
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- education
- childrens
25. The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition): An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
By: Sandy Tolan
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town… read more
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- history
- memoir
- israel
- childrens
- school
- middle grade
- religion
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
26. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
27. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Library Binding
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated … read more
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- middle grade
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
28. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
By: José Andrés
3.87
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed … read more
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"There is no recovery to manage, and no citizens to govern, if we cannot get water and food to the people."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"Too often charity is about the redemption of the giver, not the liberation of the receiver. (Said to José Andrés by Robert Eggers)"-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"As I looked up to the stars, I began to cry. I thought the one star that was missing was the Puerto Rican star on the American flag."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
"We needed leadership to feed the people of Puerto Rico, but we had a leader who was more interested in patting himself on the back than the difficult work of disaster recovery."-José Andrés, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
29. 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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30. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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- audiobook
31. Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
By: Janet Wallach
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE "A compelling story that pulsates with the energy of a thriller"—… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"We got ourselves into this mess through our indifference, selfishness and corruption,"-Janet Wallach, Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
"I believed that people who marry voluntarily assume certain mutual obligations that cannot be shirked or ignored."-Janet Wallach, Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
"The dervishes may have been an early sect, but the French-speaking Chelebi, their religious leader, had a modern outlook and a belief that there was truth to be found in all religions."-Janet Wallach, Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
"I loved their generosity; their Oriental sense of hospitality, their sensitivity to beauty, their indifference to material discomfort, and above all, their delight in purely impersonal debates on eve…"-Janet Wallach, Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
