Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
By: Mondiant Dogon
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus A st…
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1. Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
By: Vicki Constantine Croke
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a “fo… read more
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2. Birds Without Wings
By: Louis de Bernières
4.16
Format: 554 pages, Paperback
In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with … read more
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"The dead can read tears."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"Money has no religion except itself."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder"-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
"That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her."-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
3. Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
By: Regina Calcaterra
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early … read more
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"I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear. (page 54)"-Regina Calcaterra, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
4. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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5. Martin Marten
By: Brian Doyle
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave pr… read more
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6. One True Thing
By: Anna Quindlen
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Ellen Gulden leaves her life as a successful New York journalist, to return home and care for her m… read more
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7. Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
By: Homeira Qaderi
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memo… read more
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8. 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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- africa
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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
9. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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10. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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11. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
12. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
4.23
Format: 384 pages, ebook
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Po powrocie do Oxfordu Medawar skupił się całkowicie na sprawdzeniu hipotezy, że odrzucanie przeszczepu allogenicznego jest zjawiskiem immunologicznym."-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
"The sick suffer alone, they undergo procedures and surgeries alone, and in the end, they die alone. Transplant is different. Transplant is all about having someone else join you in your illness. It m…"-Joshua D. Mezrich, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
14. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
15. 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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- memoir
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- audiobook
"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
16. 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
- audiobook
"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
17. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- adult
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
18. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more
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19. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
By: Nadia Murad
4.47
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more
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"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
20. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
By: Earl Swift
4.10
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middl… read more
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- history
- audiobook
21. The Last Animal
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.47
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
22. Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
By: Nick Tabor
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from tho… read more
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- africa
- biography
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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. The Manicurist's Daughter
By: Susan Lieu
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
24. Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice
By: Jessica Willis Fisher
4.52
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
25. Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are in… read more
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- history
- memoir
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- nonfiction
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26. You Belong Here Now
By: Dianna Rostad
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant debut reminiscent of William Kent Krueger's This Tender Land and Lisa Wingate's B… read more
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- historical
- adult
- audiobook
27. I Am a Girl from Africa
By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that change… read more
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"As Africans we must uplift each other."-Elizabeth Nyamayaro, I Am a Girl from Africa
"If one of us is unwell, then none of us is well."-Elizabeth Nyamayaro, I Am a Girl from Africa
"When we uplift others, we in turn uplift ourselves."-Elizabeth Nyamayaro, I Am a Girl from Africa
"What we share is more powerful than what divides us."-Elizabeth Nyamayaro, I Am a Girl from Africa
28. The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
By: Nina Siegal
4.33
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizen… read more
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- history
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- historical
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29. Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
By: David A. Price
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley P… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
30. Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
By: Mansoor Adayfi
4.65
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tel… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"We took nothing and made something, and what is more human than that?"-Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
"We lived in a golden age, but it was still a hell. Even in that hell, we created small, beautiful moments that made us feel alive again."-Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
"I was shipped out of Guantánamo in the same way I was shipped in: against my will, gagged, blindfolded, hooded, earmuffed, and shackled."-Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
"What they didn't understand was that the hunger strike wasn't about art or contraband or even living conditions—it was about life. Our lives."-Mansoor Adayfi, Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
31. Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee's Search for Home
By: Mondiant Dogon
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus A st… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
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