Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
By: Jessica Lander
4.58
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Invisible Bridge
By: Julie Orringer
4.18
Format: 786 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a sch… read more
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"Life, oblivious to his grief, continued"-Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
"Practice at hunger makes the fast easier."-Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
"He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself."-Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
"There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best."-Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
2. We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
By: None , Deepa Iyer
3.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
3. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
4. A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock, #2)
By: Sherry Thomas
4.08
Format: 581 pages,
The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in the atmospheric second novel in New York Timesbest… read more
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5. The Book of Unknown Americans
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.17
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more
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6. Maktub
By: Paulo Coelho
4.60
Format: None pages,
Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more
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7. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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8. Big
By: Vashti Harrison
4.66
Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition
This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more
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9. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- nonfiction
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
10. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- nonfiction
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
11. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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12. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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13. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Berlin Letters
By: Katherine Reay
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more
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15. Banyan Moon
By: Thao Thai
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more
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"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
16. How to Read a Book
By: Monica Wood
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more
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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book
17. The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
By: Helen Thorpe
4.26
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
"If there was any part of the global crisis that the United States owned, it was the chaos that was unfolding in the Middle East. The United States had not played a direct role in the ethnic cleansing…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside the building…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside this buildin…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
18. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
By: Barbara Butcher
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more
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- nonfiction
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
19. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
20. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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- nonfiction
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
21. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
By: Sally J. Pla
4.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more
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22. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Redwood Court
By: DeLana R.A. Dameron
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more
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25. Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
By: Chantha Nguon
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during… read more
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- nonfiction
"When you must flee and can carry only one thing, what will it be? What single seed from your old life will be the most useful in helping you sow a new one?"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"A refugee must learn to be anything people want her to be at any given moment. But behind the masks, I am only myself - a mosaic of flavors from near and far."-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But if there's one thing I learned from my mother, it's that losing everything is not the end of the story. She taught me that lost civilizations can be rebuilt from zero, even if the task will requi…"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
"But the past never goes away. The fear and pain are still there, buried in our brains like mines. It is better to defuse them than to leave them entombed, quietly, waiting for a single misstep. That …"-Chantha Nguon, Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
26. Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
By: John Hendrickson
4.49
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. "Soulful...Profoundly moving."--… read more
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- nonfiction
27. From Here
By: Luma Mufleh
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to recon… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
By: Alisha Rai
3.64
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Alisha Rai returns with the first book in her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival d… read more
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"My sister, she’s one tough bitch. That’s what I tell my friends."-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"I am not easy to hurt. I am a stone cold bitch when it comes to men. No rose-colored glasses here."-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"A woman with a hair bow that jaunty she's a fighter." He mulled that over. "You think pepper spray would work on zombies and ghouls?" "Open membranes are open membranes, son"-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
"Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that's the only way you figure out who your …"-Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe (Modern Love, #1)
29. Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love, #2)
By: Alisha Rai
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
In Alisha Rai’s second novel in her Modern Love series, a live-tweet event goes viral for a camera-… read more
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"A Target is not a surefire sign of civilization. It's a sign that your wallet is empty because you walked into buy milk and left $200 poorer. With no milk."-Alisha Rai, Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love, #2)
30. Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School
By: Courtney E. Martin
4.24
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
One mother’s story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessar… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- education
31. Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
By: Jessica Lander
4.58
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspi… read more
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- social justice
- education
