A Girl Called Rumi
By: Ari Honarvar
4.31
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar's debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, …
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1. Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel , Carol Christensen , Thomas Christensen
3.95
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico becam… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Porque no quiero."-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone"-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"ما إن عانقها حتى اختلج جسدها كما الهلام"-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
"Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo."-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
2. The Limehouse Text (Barker & Llewelyn, #3)
By: Will Thomas
4.06
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's lat… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, i… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. American Street
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun. On the corner of American Stre… read more
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- magical realism
- fiction
5. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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6. Still Life
By: A.S. Byatt
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which c… read more
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7. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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8. The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more
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9. The Jaguar's Children
By: John Vaillant
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Tigerand The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping surv… read more
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10. Some Danger Involved (Barker & Llewelyn, #1)
By: Will Thomas
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved intr… read more
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11. Independent People
By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more
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12. Together Tea
By: Marjan Kamali
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali's delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the … read more
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13. Grand Hotel
By: Vicki Baum
3.75
Format: 352 pages,
A beautiful ballerina, to whom love is no less an art than dancing... A lovely and ingenuous peasan… read more
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14. To Kingdom Come (Barker & Llewelyn, #2)
By: Will Thomas
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When a bomb destroys the recently formed Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point t… read more
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15. The Wintringham Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery
16. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- historical
- magical realism
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
17. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. The Stationery Shop
By: Marjan Kamali
4.22
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall … read more
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- historical
- iran
- fiction
- historical fiction
"He would get out of the car to make sure her knitted scarf protected her nose and mouth against the wind. And they would climb the steps of the gray building labeled “Duxton Senior Center."-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"The truth is, my young lady, that fate has written the script for your destiny on your forehead from the very beginning. We can't see it. But it's there. And the young, who love so passionately, have…"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
"Just months ago [...] She would not have understood [...] that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in …"-Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop
19. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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- historical
20. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
By: Jane Goodall
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more
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"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
21. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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22. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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23. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
24. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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25. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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- historical
26. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- fiction
27. All the Quiet Places
By: Brian Thomas Isaac
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. We Are Not From Here
By: Jenny Torres Sanchez
4.48
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico borde… read more
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- fiction
"We are to Mexico what Mexico is to the States."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"Los sueños y los hombres son para las pendejas."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"You can outrun danger...But you can’t outrun the pain."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
"We are luchadores. We are fighters. We are those who dare to try against impossible odds."-Jenny Torres Sanchez, We Are Not From Here
29. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By: Tarana Burke
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artis… read more
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"The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit."-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did. There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive. (Where the Truth Rests)"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already cla…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt. Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures. (Unlearning Shame and Remember…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
30. A Girl Called Rumi
By: Ari Honarvar
4.31
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar's debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, … read more
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31. The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era
By: Harold R. Johnson
4.47
Format: 192 pages, ebook
A CBC BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the … read more
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