Of Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches: from Sài Gòn to Texas
By: Oanh Ngo Usadi
4.46
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a young girl and her family were exiled from city living in Sa…
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1. The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.86
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new… read more
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2. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
3. The Namesake
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more
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4. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Saigon Has Fallen
By: Peter Arnett
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
"Peter Arnett is the best reporter of the Vietnam War." --David Halberstam, Journalist and Historia… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
By: Philip Roth
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award Roth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patim… read more
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7. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
By: J.L. Collins , Mr. Money Mustache
4.00
Format: 240 pages,
"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the wo… read more
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- nonfiction
8. TigerFish, a memoir
By: Hoang Chi Truong
3.41
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel's daughter, chronicling the tumultuous years growing up in a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
9. All But My Life: A Memoir
By: Gerda Weissmann Klein
4.03
Format: None pages,
All But My Life: A Memoir All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six… read more
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10. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
By: Nick Bilton
4.40
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
11. A Good Hard Look
By: Ann Napolitano
4.32
Format: 210 pages,
Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own … read more
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12. Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope
By: Patty Wetterling
4.60
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
With stunning detail, Patty Wetterling shares the untold story of the 27-year search for her son Ja… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
14. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
15. Coconut
By: Florence Olajide
4.36
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain in the '50s and '60s, privately fostered by … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
16. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
17. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
18. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
19. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
By: Suleika Jaouad
4.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"To learn to swim in the ocean of not-knowing- this is my constant work."-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
"It's a funny thing, coming home. Everything smells the same, looks the same, feels the same, but you are different; the contrast between who you were when you left and who you are now is heightened a…"-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
"If you need to reach me, or send me anything I'll hopefully have access to email, but who knows how alert I'll be...Please don't ask too many questions about what the logistics look like, or where an…"-Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
20. Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
By: Brett Archibald
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone." ―The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fif… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. The Bird Hotel
By: Joyce Maynard
4.30
Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. After… read more
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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel
22. Mika in Real Life
By: Emiko Jean
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One phone call changes everything. At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relat… read more
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23. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
24. Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more
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25. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
By: Erin Litteken
4.46
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more
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26. The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
By: Harry Lenga
4.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heat… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea
By: Jihyun Park
4.25
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
28. Kept: An American Househusband in Paris (Kept, #2)
By: Gregory E. Buford
4.50
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s like Emily in Paris for grown-ups! The Zola Award-winning tale of a company man turned trailin… read more
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- memoir
29. Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
By: Argita Zalli
4.61
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring true story of the Zalli family, forced to flee their home and rebuild their lives in … read more
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- nonfiction
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"If our native country had become lawless, then surely, nothing was ‘wrong’ or ‘corrupt’ about us seeking refuge or citizenship in another country. At least we deserved the right to try."-Argita Zalli, Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
"My feelings were tangled up in knots. Guilt intertwined with innocence. Worry with calm. I had feelings I couldn’t name. But I believed that every human being had a right to live in peace."-Argita Zalli, Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
30. Of Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches: from Sài Gòn to Texas
By: Oanh Ngo Usadi
4.46
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a young girl and her family were exiled from city living in Sa… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
By: Svenja O’Donnell
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for si… read more
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- biography
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