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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"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
"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
"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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