My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
By: Dessa
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Witty and moving, this debut memoir in essays from the dynamic rapper and singer Dessa, is a candid…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Loneliness is the fare that you pay to be free."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
"Loneliness is the fare that you pay to be free."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
"Loneliness is the fare that you pay to be free."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
"These hours are numbered, I can't afford to waste any in transit."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
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1. Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
By: Patricia Williams , Jeannine Amber
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black and female? Ask any girl from any hoo… read more
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"Is this for someone special?" asked the saleslady as she folded my purchase in layers of tissue paper. "For my mama," I said proudly. "She dead."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"Mama didn’t trust a doctor, so whenever something was wrong with one of her kids, she liked to do the diagnosing herself by asking a million questions and then taking a wild guess."-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
"When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is wh…"-Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
2. A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)
By: Deborah Crombie
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Du… read more
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3. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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4. The Art of Starving
By: Sam J. Miller
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
More Happy Than Notmeets Glory O'Brien's History of the Futurein this gritty, contemporary YA debut… read more
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5. Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
By: David Treuer
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horiz… read more
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6. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
By: Janet Mock
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In 2011, Marie Clairemagazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for th… read more
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7. The Children's Blizzard
By: David Laskin
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Childr… read more
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8. Taste of Marrow (River of Teeth #2)
By: Sarah Gailey
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, … read more
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9. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
By: Kent Nerburn
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
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10. Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
By: David Foster Wallace , Mark Costello
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
The author of "Infinite Jest" and his co-writer discuss rap and popular culture, power, money, raci… read more
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11. Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
By: Debby Irving
3.29
Format: 178 pages, ebook
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her someti… read more
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12. Where Am I Now?
By: Mara Wilson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest colle… read more
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13. Little Faith
By: Nickolas Butler
3.88
Format: 336 pages, ebook
In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with t… read more
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"How can it all be random, chance, a beautiful cosmic accident? How?"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you," he said."-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"Lyle, part of being a Christian - hell, part of being a good person - is caring about everyone, all human life. And I love you, friend, I do. But there are times when I think you feel that a person f…"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
"I never understood organized religion," Otis said at length. "Be a good person. Don't hurt other folks. Don't cheat. Don't be greedy. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't need a goddamn g…"-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith
14. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
By: Zoe Thorogood
4.12
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more
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15. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
16. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)
By: Shannon Bowring
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more
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17. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
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18. Sister, Maiden, Monster
By: Lucy A. Snyder
3.58
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transfo… read more
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19. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
By: C.L. Polk
3.87
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more
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20. Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own prot… read more
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21. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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22. The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)
By: Kwei Quartey
3.71
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest dept… read more
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23. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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24. The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
By: Christopher Miller
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of t… read more
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25. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By: Tessa Miller
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more
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26. In the Night of Memory
By: Linda LeGarde Grover
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation. When Lo… read more
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27. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Book of the Year Selection Behavioral Scientist and Great… read more
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"The overwhelming conclusion across a large body of studies is that personality matters less than we think while the situation matters more than we think."-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"When people reflect on harsh events in their lives, it's important that they write or talk and not just think. Thinking doesn't provide the narrative closure that writing or talking does, and it ofte…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The impact of personality was overridden by whether the employees at the company perceived social norms that favored speaking up. If a company were interested in getting people to speak up, they'd be…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
"The students on campuses with such a [Confederate] statue had higher levels of implicit racial bias. This finding speaks to the haunting effects of historical expressions of racism. Not only do these…"-Geoffrey L. Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides
28. No Happy Endings
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interv… read more
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29. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
By: Ilhan Omar
4.26
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more
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"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
30. My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
By: Dessa
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Witty and moving, this debut memoir in essays from the dynamic rapper and singer Dessa, is a candid… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
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"Loneliness is the fare that you pay to be free."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
"These hours are numbered, I can't afford to waste any in transit."-Dessa, My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
31. The Barrens
By: Kurt Johnson
4.06
Format: 288 pages, ebook
This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic lov… read more
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