Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
By: Roberto Lovato
4.28
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerationa…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
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1. A Good Day to Die
By: Jim Harrison
3.88
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them cou… read more
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- audiobook
2. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
By: Óscar Martínez
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. One Day of Life
By: Manlio Argueta , Bill Brow
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day… read more
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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. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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- family
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6. 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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- biography
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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
7. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
8. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from … read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
9. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
By: Crystal Maldonado
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole lif… read more
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"Right! You see me as superhuman! That’s some serious pressure."-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Just—promise me girls you won't devalue yourselves for anyone. And I mean anyone. You can't. You have to really be kind to yourself and look out for yourself because the world can be cold and cruel. …"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Sometimes I didn't get it [jokes] at all, but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to make me laugh. He was always just trying his best, and that's what I loved. I know I will never replace…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"You need to believe in your value for you, even if you’re not some flawless ethereal being, even if not everyone will see what makes you special, even if your story is a little chaotic. We’re all mes…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
11. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Frontera
By: Julio Anta
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with th… read more
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14. What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
By: Carolyn Forché
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire What You Have… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but wi…"-Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
15. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
16. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
By: Nigel Poor
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc… read more
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- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do …"-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
17. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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18. Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration
By: Jorja Leap
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A call to action … A reminder of the beautiful resilience of formerly incarcerated women and a cel… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
By: Roberto Lovato
4.28
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerationa… read more
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- american history
- biography
- memoir
- history
- politics
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
20. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang
By: Steven Dudley
3.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To … read more
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21. The Rib King
By: Ladee Hubbard
3.50
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Upstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs pain… read more
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