A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
By: Mary-Alice Daniel
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from…
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1. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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- adult
2. Ghana Must Go
By: Taiye Selasi
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his … read more
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3. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
4. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
5. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
6. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
7. My Heart
By: Corinna Luyken
4.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days… read more
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8. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
10. The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
By: Carrot Quinn
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to trav… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir
By: Iliana Regan
3.54
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
By: Will Jawando
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A call to action and a narrative that runs counter to every racist stereotype that thwarts the live… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
14. Gilded Mountain
By: Kate Manning
3.87
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This “stellar read” (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Lost love is still love, isn’t it."-Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain
"I pressed down warnings and hopes, so my lungs were tight, and learned then why desire is called a crush. To be crushed. I would die of it."-Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain
"My new tune, of spite and indifference, drowned out the truth: that I’d mistaken the burn of jealousy for love. The heart wants what it is most denied, a hard lesson."-Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain
15. The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
By: Nice Leng'ete
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The "incredibly powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) story of the human rights activist who changed the minds… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Wildflower: A Memoir
By: Aurora James
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Say Anarcha
By: J.C. Hallman
3.81
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health that illuminates the sacrifices of a young … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
18. Love Is an Ex-Country
By: Randa Jarrar
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this pro… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Westerns began to make sense. The hubris of white men began to make sense. For what was this landscape but a canvas to swing a dick around in?"-Randa Jarrar, Love Is an Ex-Country
19. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
By: Mary-Alice Daniel
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- nigeria
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- africa
- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
