Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
By: E. Dolores Johnson
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through …
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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- audiobook
3. God's Smuggler
By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Brother Andrew
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself underco… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
4. So Brave, Young and Handsome
By: Leif Enger
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
A stunning successor to his best selling novel "Peace Like a River," Leif Enger's new work is a rug… read more
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5. Lit
By: Mary Karr
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
Litfollows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and her astonishing resu… read more
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6. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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- audiobook
7. Passport to Heaven: The True Story of a Zealous Mormon Missionary Who Discovers the Jesus He Never Knew
By: Micah Wilder
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“You have a call, Elder Wilder.” When missionary Micah Wilder set his sights on bringing a Baptist… read more
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"God’s love for us is Christ; Christ’s love for us is the cross; our love for God is loving others; and loving others is to point them to God’s love in Christ."-Micah Wilder, Passport to Heaven: The True Story of a Zealous Mormon Missionary Who Discovers the Jesus He Never Knew
"This is what I could see for the first time in my life with astounding and undeniable clarity: The express purpose of each component of the law - priesthood, priests, high priests, offerings, temples…"-Micah Wilder, Passport to Heaven: The True Story of a Zealous Mormon Missionary Who Discovers the Jesus He Never Knew
8. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- race
- audiobook
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
9. A Council of Dolls
By: Mona Susan Power
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more
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- family
- audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls
10. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. Virgil Wander
By: Leif Enger
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more
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"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
12. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
By: Zhuqing Li
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
14. Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
By: Michael K. Williams
4.49
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission … read more
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15. Sunshine Nails
By: Mai Nguyen
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more
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16. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
By: Phoebe Robinson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a n… read more
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- audiobook
17. The Twilight Garden
By: Sara Nisha Adams
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more
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18. (A)Typical Woman: Free, Whole, and Called in Christ
By: Abigail Dodds
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be created as a woman? The mainstream culture offers many answers, emphasizing… read more
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19. Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
By: Michelle Miller
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply perso… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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21. Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
By: E. Dolores Johnson
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through … read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
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