Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
By: Steven Mayers
4.40
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita, (“Alone, Alone”…
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1. In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
By: Tahir Shah
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
2. All the Real Indians Died off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Dina Gilio-Whitaker
3.51
Format: 178 pages,
Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans " All the Real I… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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- race
- biography
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- nonfiction
4. The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
By: Harrison Scott Key
3.64
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious Bible-reading wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. The Book of Night Women
By: Marlon James
3.87
Format: 252 pages,
The Book of Night Womenis a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and story… read more
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6. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
By: Valeria Luiselli
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more
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7. Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
By: Elizabeth L. Cline
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She'd grown accustomed to shopping… read more
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8. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
9. Enrique's Journey
By: Sonia Nazario
3.88
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w… read more
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- biography
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- politics
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- social justice
"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her.…"-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
10. The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
By: None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages,
From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-… read more
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11. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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12. Difficult Women
By: Roxane Gay
4.24
Format: 128 pages,
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State--w… read more
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13. We Are Displaced
By: Malala Yousafzai
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
After her father was murdered, María escaped in the middle of the night with her mother. Zaynab… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- social justice
"I think it’s time that people update themselves, educate themselves, and inform themselves."-Malala Yousafzai, We Are Displaced
14. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
17. Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)
By: Ausma Zehanat Khan
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and … read more
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18. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
19. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By: Soraya Chemaly
4.35
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Rage became a layer of my skin."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
21. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
22. Sink: A Memoir
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous h… read more
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23. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
24. Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
By: Daphne Sheldrick
4.19
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ev… read more
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- biography
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
25. So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.95
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of h… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Art is as much about searching as it is about creating."-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"The self is a work in progress, it understands itself through its memories but lives its life between them, in bits and pieces, in the present and in the past, in thoughts and emotions."-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"In themselves pictures are beyond words, beyond concepts, beyond thought, they invoke the presence of the world on the world's terms, which also means that everything that has been thought and writte…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"Everything else has changed and disappeared with time, but not the painting. When we stand in front of it, we realise its significance, we bring it to life, we draw it into our own time and our own r…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
26. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
By: Briony Cameron
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one o… read more
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27. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
3.99
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
6 hrs. 10 min. Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling… read more
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28. Cinderella Liberator
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her debut children’s book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist … read more
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- feminism
"When you love someone a lot, they just look like love."-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator
"...nobody is good or valuable because of who their parents are, or bad because their parents are bad. They are as good and valuable as they are in their own words and deeds..."-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator
"The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy ca…"-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator
"But there isn't actually a most beautiful person in the world, because there are so many kinds of beauty. Some people love roundness and softness, and other people love sharp edges and strong muscles…"-Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator
29. Dog Flowers: A Memoir
By: Danielle Geller
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and ret… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"The argument shifted, and she told me I was stupid to marry a man I had just met. It wasn't possible for me to know him. And when I tried to tell her what I loved about him—our shared worldview, the …"-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir
"After my mother's pastor left her room, I stood there berating myself for agreeing to let him pray. If I were more like Eileen, I could channel my rage and do some real damage. I would be better equi…"-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir
30. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
By: Leta Hong Fincher
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement threatens China's authoritarian gov… read more
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- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"if sons and daughters are treated equally, raised and educated in the same manner, then the responsibilities assumed by men and women would surely become equal. when that happens, the nouns 'man' and…"-Leta Hong Fincher, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
31. Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
By: Steven Mayers
4.40
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita, (“Alone, Alone”… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- social justice
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