A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
By: Gulchehra Hoja
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, …
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1. The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary
By: Atef Abu Saif
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
An ordinary Gazan's chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza The … read more
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2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
3. 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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4. 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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"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
5. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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6. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
7. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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8. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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9. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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10. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
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"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
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"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
11. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
12. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
13. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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14. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more
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15. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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16. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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17. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
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18. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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19. What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
By: David R. Montgomery
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn ad… read more
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20. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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21. Skinfolk: A Memoir
By: Matthew Pratt Guterl
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Could a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with chil… read more
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22. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
23. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
By: Gulchehra Hoja
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, … read more
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24. Ma and Me
By: Putsata Reang
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o… read more
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25. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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26. I See You, Survivor: Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry
By: Liz Ianelli
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry exposes the truth about the dark side of a billion-dollar … read more
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27. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back
By: Torsten Bell
4.37
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more
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28. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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29. My Mother Cursed My Name
By: Anamely Salgado Reyes
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they… read more
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30. The City in Glass
By: Nghi Vo
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in th… read more
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