From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America's Future
By: Charles Booker
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of …
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1. Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger
By: Lee Israel
4.11
Format: 98 pages,
Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side stud… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
3. Summer Sons
By: Lee Mandelo
3.80
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more
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- adult
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
4. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
5. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
6. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
By: Andre Henry
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the on… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
8. Those We Thought We Knew
By: David Joy
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more
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- race
- audiobook
9. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown
By: Kenan Thompson
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"-Silas House, Southernmost
12. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
By: Edward Lee
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"This is where I disagree with food critics whose mission is to judge only what is on the plate. The story such critics tell is about THEM, THEIR preferences, THEIR expectations, not the chef's. What …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
"I ask the ladies what we lose with each generation. They seem to agree: usually language goes first, then memories of relatives and grandparents, then traditions, then longing for home, then a sense …"-Edward Lee, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
13. Lark Ascending
By: Silas House
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"The world became smaller, yet louder."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."-Silas House, Lark Ascending
"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"-Silas House, Lark Ascending
14. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Clay's Quilt
By: Silas House
4.04
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice… read more
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- audiobook
"She had woken up with the song swirling around in her mind and couldn't make it sizzle down her arm and out onto the stiff strings of her fiddle."-Silas House, Clay's Quilt
16. Gay Poems for Red States
By: Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
4.56
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edw… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. A Parchment of Leaves
By: Silas House
4.22
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more
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- audiobook
"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
18. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
19. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her
By: Erika Bolstad
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
20. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
By: Jonathan Vigliotti
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Faculty Lounge
By: Jennifer Mathieu
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
22. Entitlement
By: Rumaan Alam
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
23. Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
By: Anthony Harkins
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its aut… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor."-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
"On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyo…"-Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
24. From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America's Future
By: Charles Booker
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Kentucky State Representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
25. Pearly Everlasting
By: Tammy Armstrong
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a narrative sown with rural folklore and superstition, Pearly Everlasting is an enchanting woodl… read more
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26. My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song
By: Emily S. Bingham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The long journey of an American song, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a wh… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
By: Thomas Fuller
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to u… read more
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- nonfiction
28. We Can Hear You Just Fine: Clarifications from the Kentucky School for the Blind
By: Kianna Waller Cherish Willis Matthew Caudill, Haley Hall, Shane Lowe, Madelyn Loyd, Selena Tirey
4.30
Format: 230 pages, Perfect Paperback
The Kentucky School for the Blind was chartered in 1842 to serve blind and visually impaired studen… read more
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29. If You Write Me a Letter, Send It Here: Voices of Russell In a Time of Change
By: Multiple
4.67
Format: 320 pages, Perfect Paperback
Over two dozen Russell area residents—educators, community organizers, pastors, owners of restauran… read more
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30. Our Shawnee
By: Precious Barnett
4.68
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
In our first book, eight young authors from The Academy @ Shawnee (formerly Shawnee High School) de… read more
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31. I Said Bang! A History of the Dirt Bowl
By: Darcy Thompson
4.54
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
A History of the Dirt Bowl in Louisville, Kentucky. The Dirt Bowl in the Crown Jewel of the Most Ba… read more
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