The Selfless Act of Breathing
By: J.J. Bola
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Transcendent Kingdom meets A Man Called Ove in this heartwarming novel about a Congolese-British Lo…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Sometimes it is easier to forget than to heal."-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"Sometimes it is easier to forget than to heal."-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"Oh, how would we treat the people in our lives if we knew which conversation would be the last? would we act differently? Appreciate every moment? Tell them we love them?"-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"Oh, how would we treat the people in our lives if we knew which conversation would be the last? would we act differently? Appreciate every moment? Tell them we love them?"-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
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1. Patchwork
By: Ellen Banda-Aaku
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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- contemporary
2. Here Comes the Sun
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.94
Format: 256 pages,
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more
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3. Perempuan Terluka
By: Qaisra Shahraz , Atta Verin
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dengan cadar terkoyak yang terlilit erat mengelilingi bahunya dan kepala tertunduk, perempuan itu m… read more
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4. Black Mamba Boy
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war an… read more
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5. Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)
By: Vaseem Khan
4.02
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Pe… read more
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- fiction
"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn’t make it a philosopher"-Vaseem Khan, Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)
6. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
By: Lyse Doucet
4.26
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
"Powerful, profound and deeply moving, new fiction by Afghan women writers will expand your mind an… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Literature is resilience, a release."-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
"Thank god, I said to myself, that the sun is not someone's property, otherwise I'd have to pay rent for that as well."-Lyse Doucet, My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
7. Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
By: Nadia Wassef
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled bet… read more
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- audiobook
8. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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- africa
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- contemporary
9. 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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10. The Color of Air
By: Gail Tsukiyama
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a go… read more
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11. Ayrılık Çeşmesi Sokağı
By: Selçuk Altun
3.41
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Ziya Adlan kırk yıldır akademisyenlik yaptığı Cenevre’den dönüp, Ayrılık Çeşmesi Sokağı’ndaki bakım… read more
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- literary fiction
12. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. 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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- audiobook
14. The Selfless Act of Breathing
By: J.J. Bola
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Transcendent Kingdom meets A Man Called Ove in this heartwarming novel about a Congolese-British Lo… read more
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- mental health
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"Sometimes it is easier to forget than to heal."-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"Oh, how would we treat the people in our lives if we knew which conversation would be the last? would we act differently? Appreciate every moment? Tell them we love them?"-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"It is in these moments that we are compelled to question the meaning of life, and whether life has any meaning at all; moments when tragedy hits us so unexpectedly, and so sudden. But it is also in t…"-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
"Some days, I am just tired. Some days, I'm barely strong enough to carry the burden of my heavy heart, let alone the weight of the world on my shoulders, some days I need space on my own, no internet…"-J.J. Bola, The Selfless Act of Breathing
15. Finding My Voice
By: Nadiya Hussain
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'I am their daughter. They are me. I am my Baba's stubborn back bone and his great brows. I am my m… read more
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- british literature
16. A People's History of Heaven
By: Mathangi Subramanian
4.03
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Heaven is a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new, high-rise apartment buildings and techno… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"So what you’re saying is,"-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
"It’s not that I don’t want to be part of something bigger,"-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
"Bravery, she thinks, belongs to girls. But freedom belongs to boys."-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
"You don’t have to light a match to burn a family’s life to the ground."-Mathangi Subramanian, A People's History of Heaven
17. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- british literature
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- contemporary
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- adult
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
18. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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19. War Gardens
By: Lalage Snow
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A journey through the most unlikely of the oases of peace people create in the midst of warIn this… read more
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20. Before the Queen Falls Asleep
By: Huzama Habayeb
3.58
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy'… read more
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