Brown Boy: A Memoir
By: Omer Aziz
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told t…
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1. The Adversary
By: Michael Crummey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more
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2. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .
By: Rick Mercer
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more
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3. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
4. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
5. Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
By: Staci Robinson
4.44
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving expl… read more
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6. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more
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"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
7. Men I Trust
By: Tommi Parrish
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for… read more
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8. The Body by the Sea (Commissaire Dupin, #8)
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In all of Commissaire Georges Dupin’s time living in Brittany, there has never been a murder on his… read more
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9. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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10. The Story of Us
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more
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11. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
12. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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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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14. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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15. A Great Country
By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more
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16. The Roles We Play
By: Sabba Khan
4.35
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
'Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green… read more
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"How convenient for those in power to have a labour force accustomed to disempowerment and willing to settle for less."-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play
"We must remember... ... race is a construct... ... class is a construct... ... gender is a construct. Beneath it all we are quivering flesh. Glistening in the sun. Goose-pimpled in the moon."-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play
17. Moon Road
By: Sarah Leipciger
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more
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18. Brown Boy: A Memoir
By: Omer Aziz
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told t… read more
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19. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel
By: Jane Urquhart
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more
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20. The Women Behind the Door
By: Roddy Doyle
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom h… read more
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21. The Knowing
By: Tanya Talaga
4.69
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers , an urgent explora… read more
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