What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
By: Sun Yung Shin
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their compl…
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
By: Peter Pomerantsev
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
3. One Piece, Volume 13: It's All Right!
By: Eiichiro Oda
4.36
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
No sooner have Luffy and crew escaped the bounty hunters of Whisky Peak than they become the target… read more
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4. One Piece, Volume 14: Instinct (One Piece, #14)
By: Eiichiro Oda
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Someone has given Dorry the Giant exploding ale and he's not happy! Assuming it was Luffy and crew,… read more
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5. Shadow on the Mountain
By: Margi Preus
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Shadow on the Mountainrecounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during Wor… read more
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7. The Prestige
By: Christopher Priest
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance. From… read more
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8. The Atomic City Girls: A Novel
By: Janet Beard
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel o… read more
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9. In the Lake of the Woods
By: Tim O'Brien
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
First published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin, Tim O'Brien's celebrated classic In the La… read more
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10. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
By: Kao Kalia Yang
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrif… read more
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11. The Rabbi's Cat
By: Joann Sfar , Anjali Singh , Alexis Siegel
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The preeminent work by one of France's most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi's Cattells th… read more
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12. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
13. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
14. Ruby on the Outside
By: Nora Raleigh Baskin
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Ruby's mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel that… read more
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15. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By: Steve Silberman
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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16. Real Friends
By: Shannon Hale , LeUyen Pham
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When best friends are not forever . . . Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since the… read more
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17. The Hunting Moon (The Luminaries, #2)
By: Susan Dennard
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hunting Moon is the highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Times bestselling a… read more
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18. Good Different
By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
4.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more
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"Fight for words, even if it's hard."-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the «wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
19. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)
By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
3.54
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more
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20. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more
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"Visit the past, but don't stay there."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
21. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.95
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more
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22. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
24. The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
By: Pamela Terry
4.05
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother's sudden death--only to fi… read more
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"What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to mistake my solitary nature for sullenness, my laughter for mockery, my silence fo…"-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
"I would never be happy till I managed to separate God from religion...God was infinitely bigger than I had ever imagined, infinitely more mysterious, and infinitely more kind. He was not to be held i…"-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
25. Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1
By: LambCat
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet Gwendolyn – living proof that princesses don’t always have it all. See, although she lives in … read more
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26. The New Girl (The New Girl #1)
By: Cassandra Calin
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with thi… read more
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27. 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
28. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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29. What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
By: Sun Yung Shin
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In What We Hunger For, fourteen writers from refugee and immigrant families write about their compl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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31. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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