7 must-read biography books like She Persisted: Clara Lemlich by Deborah Heiligman

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She Persisted: Clara Lemlich

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,…

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Cover of Chase (Michael Bennett, #9.5) by James  Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

1. Chase (Michael Bennett, #9.5)

By: James Patterson , Michael Ledwidge

3.84

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

"This was no suicide," says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof … read more

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2. Bullseye (Will Robie, #2.5)

By: David Baldacci

4.48

Format: 192 pages, ebook

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Timesbestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide… read more

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3. Too Many Tamales

By: Gary Soto , Ed Martinez

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christmas Eve started out so perfectly for Maria. Snow had fallen and the streets glittered. Maria'… read more

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  • childrens

4. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

By: David McCullough

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored hi… read more

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5. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By: Ronald Himler , Eleanor Coerr

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the d… read more

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6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
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7. Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.47

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more

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  • childrens
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8. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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9. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz

10. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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11. Displacement

By: Kiku Hughes

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more

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  • middle grade
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

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12. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Lotería

By: Karla Arenas Valenti

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the hottest hour of the hottest day in Oaxaca City when Life and Death walk into town, ready … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"To believe, despite everything, to have hope- that was a choice."

-Karla Arenas Valenti, Lotería

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14. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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15. Healer of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, h… read more

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  • middle grade
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16. Manhunt (Michael Bennett, #10.5)

By: James Patterson

3.85

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive. Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly… read more

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17. On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

4.18

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

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18. Thirst

By: Varsha Bajaj

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more

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  • social justice
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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19. She Persisted: Malala Yousafzai

By: Aisha Saeed

4.19

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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20. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

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21. The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"I wish someone had told me that being queer means you are never alone"

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

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22. She Persisted: Simone Biles

By: Kekla Magoon

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • childrens
Cover of A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse (Dumpty, #3) by John Lithgow

23. A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse (Dumpty, #3)

By: John Lithgow

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The next book in John Lithgow's New York Times bestselling seriesFollowing the success of New York … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of She Persisted: Clara Lemlich by Deborah Heiligman

24. She Persisted: Clara Lemlich

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • biography
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • juvenile
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25. She Persisted: Pura Belpré

By: Meg Medina

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • childrens
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26. She Persisted: Deb Haaland

By: Laurel Goodluck

4.10

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

As a child of two military parents, Deb Haaland moved around a lot when she was young before finall… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • middle grade
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27. She Persisted: Rachel Levine

By: Lisa Bunker

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of She Persisted: Opal Lee by Shelia P. Moses

28. She Persisted: Opal Lee

By: Shelia P. Moses

4.14

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • middle grade
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29. She Persisted: Rosalind Franklin

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.26

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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30. She Persisted: Diana Taurasi

By: Monica Brown

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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Uché Blackstock

4.46

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Annette Gordon-Reed

4.18

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John Lithgow

4.26

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4.19

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4.29

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