Mankiller Poems: The Lost Poetry of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
By: Wilma Mankiller
4.41
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Wilma Mankiller was not known as a poet. With a tip from her husband, Charlie Soap, and her friend,…
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1. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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2. Shiloh (Shiloh, #1)
By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sig… read more
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3. War Woman (The Real People, #8)
By: Robert J. Conley
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and insightfully as … read more
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4. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
By: Joy Harjo
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more
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5. History of Wolves
By: Emily Fridlund
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more
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6. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
7. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
8. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
9. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
10. A First Time for Everything
By: Dan Santat
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more
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11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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12. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
13. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
14. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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15. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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16. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
By: Brandy Colbert
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more
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17. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
19. Rental Person Who Does Nothing
By: Shoji Morimoto
3.34
Format: 160 pages, ebook
Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more
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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing
20. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer
3.83
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more
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21. Someone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
4.07
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—… read more
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"No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead."-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
"Homily professed her love by digging a second crossbow bolt of Shersheshin's body. It was so much clearer a declaration of affection than any of those speeches spun by poets or playwrights. And stuff…"-John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In
22. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
23. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
24. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
By: Zosia Mamet
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals… read more
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25. Whale Day: And Other Poems
By: Billy Collins
4.08
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more
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"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems
26. Ilium
By: Lea Carpenter
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more
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27. Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
By: Nikita Gill
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poeticall… read more
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"That idea...it was you. You are the universe’s fairytale come true."-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
"She wears strength and darkness equally well, The girl has always been half goddess, half hell"-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
"They pull at a thread of pain left by someone in your mind, and sew an entire ghost out of you."-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
"Out there may be monsters, my dear. But in you still lives the dragon you should always believe in."-Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
28. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
By: N. Scott Momaday
4.23
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more
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29. Mankiller Poems: The Lost Poetry of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
By: Wilma Mankiller
4.41
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Wilma Mankiller was not known as a poet. With a tip from her husband, Charlie Soap, and her friend,… read more
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30. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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31. The Perfect Bastard: Poems
By: quinn carver johnson
4.65
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
An innovative poetic interrogation of wrestling, queerness, and staying true to oneself Quinn Carv… read more
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