What We Carry: A Memoir
By: Maya Shanbhag Lang
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice …
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1. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions (Kopp Sisters #3)
By: Amy Stewart
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gunand Lady Cop Makes Troublecontinues her extraordinary… read more
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2. It's Not Yet Dark
By: Simon Fitzmaurice
3.50
Format: 364 pages, ebook
In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (mnd). He was given four years … read more
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3. The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!
By: Mark Hyman
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that the secret solution to losing weight and p… 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. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
6. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
7. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
8. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
9. 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
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
10. 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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11. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
By: Kwame Alexander
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more
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"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
12. The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border
By: Rosayra Pablo Cruz
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Compelling and urgently important, The Book of Rosy is the unforgettable story of one brave mother … read more
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13. The Ugly Cry
By: Danielle Henderson
4.26
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who wanted to start a new family with her drug-addicted, abu… read more
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"Grandma had been encouraging me to castrate men since I was old enough to know what dicks even were."-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"Danielle Elizabeth Henderson! Get your ass over here!' she shouted. Grandma always used my full name when she was angry. None of the shoppers around her turned a head or lifted a finger to help; in t…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
"My grandparents got creative to make space for three kids in their two-bedroom home. They took one of the bedrooms, my mom and aunt shared the other, and my uncle Bobby slept on the screened-in porch…"-Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry
14. Well-Behaved Indian Women
By: Saumya Dave
3.78
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generation… read more
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15. The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go
By: The Moth
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbe… read more
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16. Burning my Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman
By: Sharan Dhaliwal
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian w… read more
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17. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
By: Nina St. Pierre
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more
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18. What We Carry: A Memoir
By: Maya Shanbhag Lang
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang--"a new voice … read more
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19. Passage West
By: Rishi Reddi
4.12
Format: 429 pages, Hardcover
A Recommended Book from BookRiot, Bustle, The Millions and Teen Vogue A Los Angeles Times BEST … read more
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"He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole."-Rishi Reddi, Passage West
20. Teething
By: Megha Rao
4.20
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A story told in verse, Teething begins when Kochu, a young boy in Kerala, is caught kissing the nei… read more
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"The earth is damp from all the things women never say. I hope somewhere, our mother is still writing."-Megha Rao, Teething
21. Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me
By: Sopan Deb
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bittersweet and humorous memoir of family—of the silence and ignorance that separate us, and the … read more
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