Always Another Country
By: Sisonke Msimang
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brutally and uncompromisingly honest, Sisonke’s beautifully crafted storytelling enriches the alre…
Want to Read $ 10.16"I write because Africans and women and humans who have been considered less than others have always had stories and imaginations to take us out of the impossibility of the situations in which we have found ourselves stranded."-Sisonke Msimang, Always Another Country
"I write because Africans and women and humans who have been considered less than others have always had stories and imaginations to take us out of the impossibility of the situations in which we have found ourselves stranded."-Sisonke Msimang, Always Another Country
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4.19
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow c… read more
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2. Period Pain
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3.82
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
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3. The Hairdresser of Harare
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4.34
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
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3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
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5. Hot Milk
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3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
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6. So Long a Letter
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4.60
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7. Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
By: Susan Cooper
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
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3.80
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9. The Periodic Table
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4.18
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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10. We Need New Names
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4.50
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3.95
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12. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. Half of a Yellow Sun
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3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
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14. Age of Iron
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
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4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
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4.08
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
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19. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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20. In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.82
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
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21. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
22. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
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23. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
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24. The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
By: Caster Semenya
4.27
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and car… read more
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25. Everything Is Not Enough (In Every Mirror She’s Black #2)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature. A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick. Am… read more
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26. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
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"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
27. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
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28. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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29. Manchester Happened
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
3.98
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
An ambitious and assured collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of K… read more
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30. Always Another Country
By: Sisonke Msimang
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brutally and uncompromisingly honest, Sisonke’s beautifully crafted storytelling enriches the alre… read more
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- history
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african literature
"I write because Africans and women and humans who have been considered less than others have always had stories and imaginations to take us out of the impossibility of the situations in which we have…"-Sisonke Msimang, Always Another Country
31. The Unlikely Pair (Unlikely Dilemmas, #2)
By: Jax Calder
4.51
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you find yourself stranded in the wilderness with your political enemy? Gettin… read more
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