My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
By: Efrén C. Olivares
4.41
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fi…
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1. Whip Smart: A Memoir
By: Melissa Febos
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman's transformation from college student to professi… read more
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2. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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3. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
4. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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5. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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6. 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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"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
7. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
8. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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9. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
10. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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11. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
12. Borderless
By: Jennifer De Leon
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey… read more
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13. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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14. Illegally Yours: A Memoir
By: Rafael Agustin
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin ( Jane The Virgin ) a… read more
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15. The Ungrateful Refugee
By: Dina Nayeri
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with thos… read more
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"Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied.…"-Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee
16. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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17. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
By: Ilhan Omar
4.26
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more
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"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
18. My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
By: Efrén C. Olivares
4.41
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fi… read more
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- historical
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19. Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto
By: Edafe Okporo
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A “moving…dramatic” (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl ), and u… read more
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20. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more
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21. The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
By: Daniel José Older
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and famil… read more
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"I am a thing beyond the petty politics of hopes and fear."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I am still here, somehow, by the grace of something bigger than me."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"I see she's placed some coffee down there for them and I half consider taking a sip just to mess with everybody."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
"So if you ever wonder what we, the disappeared, dream of in our darkest hours, know that it is you: those who remain."-Daniel José Older, The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution
