There Are Girls like Lions
By: Cole Swensen
3.54
Format: 99 pages, Hardcover
For mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, and friends, here are 30 stirring poems about the…
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1. Skellig (Skellig, #1)
By: David Almond
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Micha… read more
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"There's no end to evolution."-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)
"The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53"-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)
"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled."-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)
"Can love help a person to get better?’ I asked."-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)
2. The Dead Fathers Club
By: Matt Haig
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story. Eleven… read more
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"... killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head."-Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club
"... there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead."-Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club
"Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you"-Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club
"(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none."-Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club
3. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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5. Wild Embers
By: Nikita Gill
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
They have lightning in their souls, thunder in their hearts, chaos in their bones. Nikita Gill's po… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
6. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
By: Maya Angelou
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
7. This Modern Love
By: Will Darbyshire
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This Modern Loveis a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
8. Come Close
By: Sappho
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more
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9. The Love Poems of Rumi
By: Deepak Chopra , Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi , None
4.12
Format: 440 pages,
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi… read more
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10. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
By: Vicki Myron , Bret Witter
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for … read more
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11. We Come Apart
By: Sarah Crossan , Brian Conaghan
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
From two acclaimed authors comes an emotional story told in verse about friendship, love, and overc… read more
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12. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By: Gustave Doré , Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major… read more
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13. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
14. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
15. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
16. ExtraOrdinary (Villains, #1.5)
By: Victoria Schwab
3.74
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, Extraordinary expands deeper into the … read more
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17. The Night Hunt
By: Alexandra Christo
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom, comes The Night Hunt, a dark fantasy roman… read more
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"In the darkest nights, hope shines the brightest"-Alexandra Christo, The Night Hunt
"Home is not a place, but the people who make you feel safe."-Alexandra Christo, The Night Hunt
18. Antoni: Let's Do Dinner
By: Antoni Porowski
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Antoni Porowski shares 80 of his favorite weeknight recipes to help fans make it from Monday to Fri… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
19. Pod
By: Laline Paull
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing and immersive new novel, Pod takes the reader into the depths of the ocean—and into … read more
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"To spin like everyone else was the key to fitting in, and if she could only hear the music of the ocean like everyone else, she too would be able to tune in and do it."-Laline Paull, Pod
20. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- feminism
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
21. Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)
By: Lina Rather
4.01
Format: 176 pages, ebook
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina … read more
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22. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
23. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
By: Malaka Gharib
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
25. The Navigating Fox
By: Christopher Rowe
3.74
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more
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26. Bitterthorn
By: Kat Dunn
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more
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"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn
27. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
28. I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2
By: Baek Se-hee
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif.… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Where the Heart Should Be
By: Sarah Crossan
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more
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- poetry
30. 2Fish: A Poetry Book
By: Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo
3.93
Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition
The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter “transform[s] her pain into poetry” in this intimate collect… read more
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- nonfiction
"31Fish your worst (you are here) your best"-Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, 2Fish: A Poetry Book
"she need not worry of returning to sea cause life was everlasting and she was free"-Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, 2Fish: A Poetry Book
"i shouted to the stars but there were no answers i called out to God you were there"-Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, 2Fish: A Poetry Book
"Sometimes i forget to breathe what exactly does that mean? (don't forget to breathe, plz)"-Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, 2Fish: A Poetry Book
31. There Are Girls like Lions
By: Cole Swensen
3.54
Format: 99 pages, Hardcover
For mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, and friends, here are 30 stirring poems about the… read more
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- collections
