Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
By: Philip J. Deloria
4.31
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portrait…
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- nonfiction
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Flight
By: Sherman Alexie
3.89
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of hu… read more
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"What kind of life can you have in a house without books?"-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"I measure men by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, and I find all of them are assholes."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
"They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents."-Sherman Alexie, Flight
4. 4 3 2 1
By: Paul Auster
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster's greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking n… read more
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5. The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
By: Genevieve Cogman
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently... Irene is a professi… read more
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6. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. Because of Winn-Dixie
By: Kate DiCamillo , Chris Sheban
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition. … read more
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8. American Indian Stories
By: Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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11. Red: A Haida Manga
By: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this spectacular full-color graphic novel blends tradit… read more
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12. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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13. A Perfect Red
By: Amy Butler Greenfield
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Perfect Redrecounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of t… read more
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14. Waterlily
By: Ella Cara Deloria , Raymond J. Demallie
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
This novel of the Dakota Sioux written by Sioux ethnologist Deloria takes protagonist Waterlily thr… read more
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15. Zong!
By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more
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16. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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17. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
By: None
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more
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18. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
19. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
20. Once Upon a Wardrobe
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more
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"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
21. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- nonfiction
22. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
23. A Short Walk Through a Wide World
By: Douglas Westerbeke
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more
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24. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
25. Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
By: Bishakh Kumar Som
3.52
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by in… read more
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26. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
27. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By: C. Riley Snorton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more
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- nonfiction
28. A Place for Us
By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
4.17
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Ca… read more
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"It is not that we thought our way was better. It was that we did not know another way."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?"-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"It was a strange time in their lives: the children like paper boats they were releasing into the water and watching float away."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Are you happy," he asked. "I am." she said. And then she twisted again the row of bangles on her wrist. "I'm content. My parents are happy."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
29. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
30. Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
By: Philip J. Deloria
4.31
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portrait… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
By: Mark Rifkin
3.86
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rif… read more
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- nonfiction
