Everything Inside
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi…
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1. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By: Ann Patchett
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more
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2. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
4.25
Format: 194 pages, ebook
'Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman … read more
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3. You Should See Me in a Crown
By: Leah Johnson
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"The best education is one you get in the world."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"I don’t believe in putting a question mark where God put a period."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"Did you know you have the chance to be the first black queen in Campbell history?"-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
"Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know."-Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown
4. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
5. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. Furia
By: Yamile Saied Méndez
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An #ownvoices contemporary YA set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything … read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"Lies have long legs."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia
"When we played, we were all the same. We were all one."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia
"I was just a girl with strong legs and a stubborn streak."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia
"I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower."-Yamile Saied Méndez, Furia
7. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By: Austin Channing Brown
4.38
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more
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- audiobook
"I am not a priest for the white soul."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
8. Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781646220830. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudic… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Rotten eggs that will never hatch"-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Not even crocodiles eat their young...papa takes care of his children."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
9. The Scent Keeper
By: Erica Bauermeister
3.93
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, present… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Salmon always return to the same stream."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"Once you change the scent, you change the memory."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"This city was too big, too fast, for such quiet details."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
10. The Secrets We Kept
By: Lara Prescott
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"And as the years passed, her age always stayed the same, her beauty sealed in amber."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
11. The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
12. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
By: Christie Tate
3.81
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer w… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"If you can't say no in relationships, then you can't be intimate"-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I recognized the familiar feeling of warmth and safety that settled after the rush of emotional risk."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I wept...for how deeply afraid I was that my life would never truly change or, worse, that true change would ask more of me than I could give."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
"I released a secret, not caring who in my family. might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself."-Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
13. On the Rooftop
By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides wit… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- african american
- audiobook
14. The Jetsetters
By: Amanda Eyre Ward
3.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, s… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood."-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters
"Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood …"-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters
15. The Chicken Sisters
By: K.J. Dell'Antonia
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
16. The Cactus
By: Sarah Haywood
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus
17. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
By: Denise Mina
3.53
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
18. Still Lives
By: Maria Hummel
3.26
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
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- contemporary
19. Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
By: Heather Harpham
4.14
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fat… read more
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- adult
- book club
- audiobook
20. Everything Inside
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short story collection
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african american
- book club
- audiobook
21. Redwood Court
By: DeLana R.A. Dameron
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- african american
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