The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like …
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1. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
2. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
By: Helen Oyeyemi
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more
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- short stories
3. Ours Are the Streets
By: Sunjeev Sahota
4.73
Format: None pages,
'Genuine, poignant ...A moral work of real intelligence and power' John Burnside, The Times When Im… read more
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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
5. Dear Wendy
By: Ann Zhao
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more
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- audiobook
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy
6. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
7. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
8. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
9. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more
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- short stories
- essays
- anthologies
10. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- social justice
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- audiobook
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
11. The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
By: Adam Kucharski
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Carmen and Grace
By: Melissa Coss Aquino
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama, the story of two cousins lured into the underground dr… read more
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- audiobook
13. Alice in Borderland, vol. 8
By: Haro Aso
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Una historia repleta de acción, suspense y macabros juegos, protagonizada por tres amigos que acaba… read more
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14. When We Make It
By: Elisabet Velasquez
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more
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- audiobook
15. Director's Cut
By: Carlyn Greenwald
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Oscar-winning Valeria Sullivan finds herself trapped in a battle of wits with a sexy professor, but… read more
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16. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.25
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like … read more
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- memoir
- the united states of america
- politics
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
17. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
By: Alma Zaragoza-Petty
4.10
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Creating the world you want to live in takes guts and grace and everything you've got. To heal the … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
By: Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.58
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Heartwaves: A Greyfin Bay Novel
By: Anita Kelly
4.43
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
Mae Kellerman is content. After forty years of ups and downs, she has a meaningful job at a queer c… read more
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20. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
By: Nicole Chung
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as … read more
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- memoir
- politics
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"A map is only one story. It is not the most important story. The most important story is the one a people tell about themselves."-Nicole Chung, A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
21. We Came to Welcome You
By: Vincent Tirado
3.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut f… read more
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