The Four Humors
By: Mina Seckin
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving …
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1. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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2. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
3. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
4. Defenestrate
By: Renee Branum
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE An exuberant, wild… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
5. Self-Portrait with Nothing
By: Aimee Pokwatka
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s fron… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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- adult
"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
7. The Fortune Seller
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller
8. Flores and Miss Paula
By: Melissa Rivero
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more
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- contemporary
- womens
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9. Berlin
By: Bea Setton
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she … read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- womens
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10. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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- literary fiction
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11. What We Fed to the Manticore
By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
4.11
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kollur… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Work Wife
By: Alison B. Hart
3.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. Bu… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
13. Please Report Your Bug Here
By: Josh Riedel
3.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. The Four Humors
By: Mina Seckin
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- medical
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- contemporary
- family
- womens
- novels
- adult
15. White on White
By: Aysegül Savas
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student mov… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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- adult
"It wasn't often, she went on, that we could present ourselves to others, like a self-portrait. More often, we made portraits of the people around us, guessing at their features from occasional glimps…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Among the strongest memories of her past, she went on, was watching her mother in the kitchen. Agnes had tried revisiting this place in her painting - that blue kitchen of her childhood and adolescen…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"The cousin was both real and fictional to her - an embodiment of all that Agnes wanted to be, fashioned from the particular details of her cousins tangible self. "We form ourselves through our double…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
"Perhaps she was just old-fashioned, Agnes said, but it seemed to her that severe introspection was a sure way to get lost in the smallest issues, to reduce one's life to a list of grievances. For her…"-Aysegül Savas, White on White
16. The Applicant
By: Nazli Koca
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A singular debut, The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, wom… read more
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17. Mother in the Dark
By: Kayla Maiuri
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. Whe… read more
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18. The Honeybee Emeralds
By: Amy Tector
3.95
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Alice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald neckla… read more
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19. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- womens
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- adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
20. Housebreaking
By: Colleen Hubbard
3.52
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her ho… read more
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- family
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21. The Nobodies
By: Alanna Schubach
3.81
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it, said Nina. But deep down I knew I didn't. Jess said, We d… read more
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