Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon
By: Jessica Mudditt
4.30
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century. After a whirlwind …
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1. Give Me Courage
By: None
4.06
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
'Here in Africa, two wives is nothing. You white people just have affairs. You lie and cheat. At le… read more
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2. Out of Africa
By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more
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3. The Garden of Evening Mists
By: Tan Twan Eng
3.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war… read more
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4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
5. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
6. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
7. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
8. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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9. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
10. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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11. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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12. The Taste of Ginger
By: Mansi Shah
3.99
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the … read more
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"Had I lost my culture? I felt like I was constantly reminded that I was Indian—at work, at a store, when talking to white friends—some part of me was always aware that I wasn’t like the other people …"-Mansi Shah, The Taste of Ginger
13. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
By: Jessie Tu
3.19
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more
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14. How We Love: Notes on a Life
By: Clementine Ford
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author … read more
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15. The Hummingbird Effect
By: Kate Mildenhall
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more
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16. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
By: Delia Ephron
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-lif… read more
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17. The Librarian
By: Valerie Keogh
3.84
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
Since that fateful night I have always kept myself to myself. Reserved. Private. Alone. Some peo… read more
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18. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
19. Love Language: A memoir of family, music and pasta
By: Linda Marigliano
4.01
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
A compelling, relatable and powerfully moving memoir of people-pleasing, family and what it means t… read more
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20. Kill Shot (The Fighting Detective #1)
By: Blair Denholm
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Missing people. Shocking crimes. Dark secrets. When a fisherman finds a mutilated body on the ed… read more
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21. Holly's Hell: Seven Years in a Thai Prison
By: Holly Deane-Johns
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Holly's Hell is a remarkable story of trauma and redemption.At the age of 29, Holly Deane-Johns was… read more
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22. The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East
By: Rebecca Lowe
4.19
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
ONE WOMAN, ONE BIKE AND ONE RICHLY ENTERTAINING, PERCEPTION-ALTERING JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. In 201… read more
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23. The German Daughter
By: Marius Gabriel
4.48
Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition
The band new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyt… read more
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24. Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' (Asian Arguments)
By: Francis Wade
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime – men in jackboo… read more
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25. Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
By: Kitty Flanagan
3.98
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
Once my fingers were fully cheezelled, I moved up to the cocktail Frankfurt bowl and started poking… read more
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"I am almost ashamed to admit how much I love getting a laugh-for me, it is still the ultimate high. Admittedly, I don't take a lot of drugs."-Kitty Flanagan, Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
26. Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond
By: John Lyons
4.34
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife'… read more
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27. It's Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
By: Sabeeha Rehman
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Threading My Prayer Rug , an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia. It’s Not … read more
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28. The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way
By: Diana Marcum
4.05
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the na… read more
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29. Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon
By: Jessica Mudditt
4.30
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century. After a whirlwind … read more
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30. Dwarfs Don't Live in Doll Houses (Dwarfism, #1)
By: Angela Muir Van Etten
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
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