You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
4.13
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build …
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1. August Snow (August Snow #1)
By: Stephen Mack Jones
3.86
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of a… read more
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2. Medicine Walk
By: Richard Wagamese
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the mos… read more
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"There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
"There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful."-Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
3. Wolf's Mouth
By: John Smolens
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and sh… read more
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5. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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6. Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)
By: Walter Mosley
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
Walter Mosley's Fearless Jonesinaugurates a new crime series set in 1950s Los Angeles. But can Jone… read more
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7. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
By: Margaret Atwood
2.35
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vinta… read more
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8. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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9. The Golden Horn (Last Viking, #1)
By: Poul Anderson
4.50
Format: None pages,
The saga of Harald Harrede. "He was a huge man, fully seven feet tall and no one could stand before… read more
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10. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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11. Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
By: Lindsay Ellis
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi… read more
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"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so cl…"-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
12. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
13. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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- essays
14. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
15. Obit
By: Victoria Chang
4.27
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."-Victoria Chang, Obit
"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"-Victoria Chang, Obit
16. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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17. A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
By: Peter Ho Davies
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal y… read more
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18. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
19. The Hero of This Book
By: Elizabeth McCracken
3.77
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more
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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book
20. Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more
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"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
21. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
22. Search
By: Michelle Huneven
3.87
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
A sharp and funny novel of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes Dana… read more
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23. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
24. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- nonfiction
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
25. Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again
By: Jancee Dunn
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informati… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Tin Camp Road
By: Ellen Airgood
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which … read more
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27. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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28. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
29. You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
4.13
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
30. Impermanence: Life and Loss on Superior's South Shore
By: Sue Leaf
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Wounds
By: Razel Jones
4.23
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Wounds: A Collaborative Memoir in Stories is about the triumphs and the pains experienced in Razel … read more
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- nonfiction
"Give me my brother. You can keep your friends."-Razel Jones, Wounds
"We were beautifully different, and that was okay."-Razel Jones, Wounds
"Accountability is the only real beginning to change."-Razel Jones, Wounds
"Our world is not colorless. It is colorful, and we're better for it."-Razel Jones, Wounds
