Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac…
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1. North
By: Seamus Heaney
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
In NorthSeamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people… read more
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2. 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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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"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
3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- audiobook
4. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
5. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- adoption
6. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Time's Undoing
By: Cheryl A. Head
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murd… read more
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- audiobook
8. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
9. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. 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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- memoir
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- asian literature
- audiobook
11. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
By: Will Schwalbe
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
14. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
15. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- adoption
16. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
17. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
18. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
19. Illegally Yours: A Memoir
By: Rafael Agustin
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
By: Carmen Rita Wong
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- asian literature
- audiobook
21. Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
By: Cathie Pelletier
3.96
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human enduranc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
22. A Map for the Missing
By: Belinda Huijuan Tang
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A M… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- audiobook
23. Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
By: Jenny Heijun Wills
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born… read more
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- memoir
- asia
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
24. Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
By: Anna Qu
3.85
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerf… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
25. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
26. Heretic: A Memoir
By: Jeanna Kadlec
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogatin… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...Mary Lambert is singing "Love is patient, love is kind" from 1 Corinthians 13 over and over, repeating "Not crying on Sundays," and I am gone, head fully turned and staring out the car window, try…"-Jeanna Kadlec, Heretic: A Memoir
27. More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
By: John K. Blake
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
28. The Making of Her
By: Bernadette Jiwa
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Chosen as one of New York Post's Best Books of 2022 People were forever telling her how lucky sh… read more
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- audiobook
- family
- adoption
29. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- asian literature
30. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- asia
- adoption
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- asian literature
- audiobook
31. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
By: Cait West
4.14
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more
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- biography
- memoir
