Spark
By: Patricia Leavy
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college--…
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1. The Little Friend
By: Donna Tartt
3.47
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more
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"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
By: Allie Brosh
4.17
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to ex… read more
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"I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
4. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
By: Avery F. Gordon
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections lin… read more
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5. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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6. The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
By: None
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Children quickly learn that actions have consequences. This elementary lesson is repeated again and… read more
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7. Emma in the Night
By: Wendy Walker
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgottencomes a thriller about two missing sisters, a tw… read more
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8. What Maisie Knew
By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick
4.07
Format: 248 pages,
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more
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9. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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10. The Third Twin
By: Ken Follett
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dr Ferrami is on the verge of uncovering an extraordinary secret...'A high-tech read about genetic … read more
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11. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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12. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
13. It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
By: Lysa TerKeurst
4.30
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His prom… read more
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"The enemy may be vicious, but he is not victorious."-Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
"Who told you that you were naked? Who told you that you are anything less than a most glorious creation of the Almighty God? Who spoke words over you and about you that stripped you bare and broke yo…"-Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
"I'd insist that we all out same canvases and paint together. You might not want to, but I'd assure you that we needn't be so worried about painting masterpieces. People are the masterpieces, and you …"-Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
"The human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don’t live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have…"-Lysa TerKeurst, It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
14. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
15. The Museum of Failures
By: Thrity Umrigar
4.13
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more
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"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures
16. Very Cold People
By: Sarah Manguso
3.38
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more
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"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
17. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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18. The Clockmaker's Daughter
By: Kate Morton
3.75
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of… read more
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"Being a parent’s a breeze,"-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Her curiosity was unquenchable."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"Those who seek to know gossip will hear ill about themselves."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
"No matter what evil might come one's way to be loved is to be protected."-Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter
19. Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
By: Dolly Parton
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stori… read more
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"I wake up with new dreams everyday."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I got dreams so big they'd scare some people."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"I just wanted to be different. I wanted to be seen."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose, with purpose."-Dolly Parton, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
20. Meet Cute
By: Helena Hunting
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Talk about an embarrassing introduction. On her first day of law school, Kailyn ran quite literally… read more
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"Sometimes the biggest mistakes are made with the best of intentions."-Helena Hunting, Meet Cute
21. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
22. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
By: Johann Hari
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more
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"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
23. Beasts of a Little Land
By: Juhea Kim
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more
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"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
24. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
25. A Good Neighborhood
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.81
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology … read more
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26. A Well-Behaved Woman
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, In 1883, the New York Times prints a leng… read more
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"Yet she understood a truth she could never say aloud: this ideal life was still deficient. She was not wholly content. Perhaps she should be, but contentment, she had learned, lay beyond money's cons…"-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman
"Alva did suffer when the next wave came, and again and again and again, but a short while later she brought into the Vanderbilt family a girl with tufts of dark hair and wide eyes and the sweetest li…"-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman
"Consuelo was correct: marrying for money alone was not ideal. Alva hoped for status, too - though not for the reasons her mother had sought it, self-importance and admiration. Status gave a woman mor…"-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman
27. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
28. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
29. A Perfect Vintage
By: Chelsea Fagan
3.47
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
Old money. Younger men. One intoxicating summer. Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a… read more
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30. Wade in the Water
By: Nyani Nkrumah
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this ri… read more
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31. Spark
By: Patricia Leavy
3.69
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Professor Peyton Wilde has an enviable life teaching sociology at an idyllic liberal arts college--… read more
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