I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
By: Bassey Ikpi
4.31
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
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1. Balm
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new li… read more
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3. Mind of Winter
By: Laura Kasischke
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the… read more
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4. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
4.06
Format: 663 pages,
The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more
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5. He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
By: Mimi Baird , Eve Claxton
3.97
Format: 179 pages,
Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2… read more
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6. Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
By: Melody Moezzi
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences … read more
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7. The Taste of Salt
By: Martha Southgate
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Josie Henderson loves the water and is fulfilled by her position as the only senior-level black sci… read more
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8. My Body Is a Book of Rules
By: Elissa Washuta
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself ove… read more
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9. Brutalities: A Love Story
By: Margo Steines
4.16
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
"Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bear… read more
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"N, still new to me, coming inside and sitting down, me thinking that we would have sex and he would leave and it would be whatever, but instead we kissed a little bit and then started talking and I h…"-Margo Steines, Brutalities: A Love Story
10. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
By: Roxane Gay
4.43
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more
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"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
12. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
13. Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.10
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning scien… read more
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14. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)
By: Martina McGowan
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more
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15. Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock , You Are Your Best Thing… read more
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16. Finna
By: Nate Marshall
4.49
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip… read more
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17. Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community
By: Joy Harden Bradford
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the licensed clinical psychologist behind the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls co… read more
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18. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
By: Bassey Ikpi
4.31
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences… read more
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"Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"It makes you feel unfinished, like in your family's eyes you will never be completely whole. And in your eyes, you have never been completely whole."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
19. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
By: Michael Arceneaux
3.77
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Featured as one of Summer 2018’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, E… read more
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"She didn't want me to go to hell, but couldn't see that to not be wholly human might fit my own version of hell on earth."-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"Religion can make you suspend your better sensibilities. Its success in making the faithful fall in line, no matter how foolhearty a position appeared, was rooted in how great a role faith played in …"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"The only insight I could get from the Vatican at this point included shoe recommendations and where to buy one of those bad bitch dresses priests were required to wear while performing mass, if I eve…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"I couldn't make someone love me. I couldn't make myself desirable to someone who didn't want me. I couldn't compel someone to see me in the same way in which I wanted to be seen. All I could do was b…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
20. Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)
By: Tess Carletta
4.41
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Immortality is a dangerous affair when it isn’t done right. Basie Yeats knows he’s doing imm… read more
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"But who do I have if you're not my person?"-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)
"He wanted memories that were so good, he could only replace them with even better memories, until his mind was just a stockpile of evidence that proved a simple fact: no place in the world could be b…"-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)
"Something in Basie shifted. He took the key to his grief and unlocked the shackles. He was done with it. Done being pulled in a thousand different directions until his bones ached. Done wading throug…"-Tess Carletta, Kit & Basie (Tales from Long Lily, #1)
21. Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design
By: Kaleena Sales
4.32
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A rich, inclusive, contemporary, and global look at design diversity, past and present, through ess… read more
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