Last of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard
By: Samantha Weinberg
3.36
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This riveting book gives an account of an intrepid young woman's eccentric quest, as Samantha Weinb…
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1. The Yearling
By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more
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"Words began fights and words ended them."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
2. The Tale of Aypi
By: Ak Welsapar
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ingenting ar som vanligt i den lilla fiskebyn vid Kaspiska havets kust. Myndigheterna har forbjudit… read more
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3. The Moor's Account
By: Laila Lalami
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with a c… read more
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- africa
4. Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
By: J. Maarten Troost
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
5. A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)
By: Ken Follett
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious co… read more
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6. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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7. Pippi Longstocking
By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn
4.41
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more
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8. Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
By: None , None
3.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Aus… read more
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9. Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
By: Amy Tan
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Cluband The Valley of AmazementAmy Tan… read more
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10. The Diviners
By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie,… read more
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11. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- politics
- africa
- history
- nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
12. The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more
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"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
13. Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
14. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
15. 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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16. The Water Dancer
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.06
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here. Young Hiram Walker was bo… read more
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"...it was never the costume that made the Quality, but how the lady wore it."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"It's like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
"And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
17. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
18. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
19. The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace
By: Anne Edwards
3.75
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty… read more
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- biography
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20. Being a Palauan
By: Homer G. Barnett
3.28
Format: 87 pages, Library Binding
Palauan men praise women and state with pride, "Women are strong; men are weak." But men do the pla… read more
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21. Last of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard
By: Samantha Weinberg
3.36
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This riveting book gives an account of an intrepid young woman's eccentric quest, as Samantha Weinb… read more
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- biography
- history
- travel
- comoros
- politics
- pirates
- nonfiction
