Perfect Black
By: Crystal Wilkinson
4.65
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a …
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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
By: bell hooks
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)
2. Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
By: Frank X. Walker
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In t… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
3. Head Off & Split
By: Nikky Finney
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry Winner of 2012 S… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. When Winter Come: The Ascension of York
By: Frank X. Walker
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance, Frank X Walker's When Winter Come: The Ascension of Yo… read more
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- poetry
5. Miracle's Boys
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Nothing is like it used to be. If it were, Mama would still be alive. Papa wouldn't have died. Thir… read more
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6. A Different Pond
By: Bao Phi , Thi Bui
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and s… read more
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7. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
By: Kwame Alexander
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
8. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
9. Saga, Volume 11
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.26
Format: 153 pages, ebook
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more
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10. The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
By: James Tynion IV
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens wh… read more
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"Collective belief shapes the world, so everything is a little bit true, or has the potential to be true."-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
"The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief."-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
"Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level. And then somebody presents an answer to why …"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World
11. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Shannon Harris
3.77
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
12. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
By: Sarah Smarsh
3.76
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
13. Before the Ever After
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Jacqueline Woodson's novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have … read more
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- poetry
14. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
By: Cassie Chambers
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
15. The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
By: James Tynion IV
4.24
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Department of Truth battled a secret war against its Soviet counterpart the Ministr… read more
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"Nothing in this world exists on principle. We know for a fact that the world is messy, that people believe in messy things. There aren't rules. What does it do for your life to rip out the ground ben…"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol. 4: The Ministry of Lies
16. The Department of Truth, Vol. 3: Free Country
By: James Tynion IV
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Six acclaimed guest artists join Eisner winner JAMES TYNION IV (Something is Killing the Children, … read more
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"Magic is real. It works. It has impact on the world. The human brain is incredibly powerful, and you can rewire it. You let yourself become a symbol, in a whole fucking history of symbols, knowing th…"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol. 3: Free Country
17. Even As We Breathe
By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more
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18. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"-Silas House, Southernmost
19. Junkwraith (Junkwraith, 1)
By: Ellinor Richey
3.33
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
What she once possessed... now threatens to possess her. This vibrant Swedish debut graphic novel i… read more
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20. The Department of Truth, Vol 2: The City Upon a Hill
By: James Tynion IV
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Cole Turner thought he joined the right side of the war for the Truth. But now that he's learning m… read more
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"You lay a few cards down in a particular order, each representing a big idea, and then you get to decide how it relates to you. And the more you're in a position where you want the cards to have more…"-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 2: The City Upon a Hill
21. Lark Ascending
By: Silas House
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more
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"The world became smaller, yet louder."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"-Silas House, Lark Ascending
22. Clay's Quilt
By: Silas House
4.04
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice… read more
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"She had woken up with the song swirling around in her mind and couldn't make it sizzle down her arm and out onto the stiff strings of her fiddle."-Silas House, Clay's Quilt
23. Gay Poems for Red States
By: Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
4.56
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edw… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
24. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
25. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- biography memoir
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
26. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Perfect Black
By: Crystal Wilkinson
4.65
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
2022 NAACP Image Award Winner Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a … read more
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- poetry
- race
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
28. Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets
By: Bianca Lynne Spriggs
4.46
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as … read more
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- poetry
29. Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
By: Keith S. Wilson
4.10
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, oft… read more
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- poetry
30. Thot
By: Chanté L. Reid
4.68
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Thot is a ground-breaking, fast paced, book length essay that experiments with poetry, dialogue, an… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
31. On Homesickness: A Plea (In Place)
By: Jesse Donaldson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life toget… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
