Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
By: Ian Zack
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement," who …
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1. I Still Dream About You
By: Fannie Flagg
4.53
Format: None pages,
The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About … read more
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"Don't give up before the miracle happens."-Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
"Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle."-Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
"Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. I…"-Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
"I eat out of stress," she told Robbie, and now, between work and her nephews driving her crazy, she was just on the verge of having to switch from her MEDIUM to her FAT AS A HOG wardrobe again, which…"-Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
2. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)
By: Alan Bradley
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hard on the heels of the return of her mother's body from the frozen reaches of the Himalayas, Flav… read more
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3. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
4. The Paying Guests
By: Sarah Waters
3.45
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry ar… read more
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"Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
"...why must people of that class always reveal so much of themselves? A few more minutes and she would have shown us her varicose veins."-Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
5. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By: Ann Patchett
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more
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6. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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7. LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more
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8. The Tiger Rising
By: Kate DiCamillo
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in pap… read more
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9. In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs, #13)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.08
Format: 432 pages, ebook
"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." --Maureen Corr… read more
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10. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
By: Fannie Flagg
4.10
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author returns to the small town at the heart of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle St… read more
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"They wolfed wolfly in the wolf den."-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
"You know, life can be hard sometimes. And I sort of think animals are little gifts the good Lord sends to help us get through it. Lady sure did that for me."-Fannie Flagg, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
11. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
13. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
15. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
16. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
By: Fannie Flagg
4.03
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Poland, 1909 Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a… read more
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17. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
18. Before and After
By: Judy Christie
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
19. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
20. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
21. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
22. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more
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- african american
"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
23. Voyage of the Damned
By: Frances White
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The TikTok sensation from the UK has come to North America! This special first edition hardcover w… read more
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"As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind."-Frances White, Voyage of the Damned
24. Canto Contigo
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more
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- music
25. A Good Neighborhood
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.81
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology … read more
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26. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
By: Lorna Landvik
3.90
Format: None pages, ebook
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times trace… read more
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"Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives."-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"She was a master cake baker and her creations were not just oohed and ahhed over by other kids at my birthday parties, but requested by those kid's mothers for their own celebrations... She not only …"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
"This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happ…"-Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag
27. The Wife of Bath: A Biography
By: Marion Turner
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous characte… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
28. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
By: Jennet Conant
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight t… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
29. Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
By: Ian Zack
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement," who … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
30. DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right
By: Lily Zheng
4.29
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable… read more
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- nonfiction
