Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
By: Ali Cobby Eckermann
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Too Afraid to Cry, Ali Cobby Eckermann—who was recently awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, one …
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1. Wishtree
By: Katherine Applegate , Charles Santoso
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is man… read more
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"Here's an idea for you: ideas are a bad idea"-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree
"I'm not just a tree. I'm a home. A community. - Red"-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree
"Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope."-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree
"My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid."-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree
2. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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3. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
By: Kevin Wilson
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, … read more
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4. The Bridges of Madison County
By: Robert James Waller
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of … read more
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6. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
7. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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8. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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9. Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
By: Michelle Burford , Mary Lou Retton , None
3.83
Format: None pages,
Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her… read more
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10. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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11. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
By: Maureen Callahan
4.09
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more
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"I've got lots more stories to tell."-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
12. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
13. The Lovers
By: Yumna Kassab
2.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other… read more
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14. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
15. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
By: Heather Rose
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more
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16. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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17. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
18. The Conversion
By: Amanda Lohrey
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, … read more
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19. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
By: Anita Heiss
4.17
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in … read more
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- indigenous
"Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family."-Anita Heiss, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
20. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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21. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
By: Holly Ringland
4.04
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more
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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
22. 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
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
23. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
By: Chloé Hayden
4.34
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more
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"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
24. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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25. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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26. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
By: Liza Rodman
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, whil… read more
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27. Body Friend
By: Katherine Brabon
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more
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28. Salt River Road
By: Molly Schmidt
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more
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"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road
29. Sunbathing
By: Isobel Beech
4.05
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more
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30. Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
By: Ali Cobby Eckermann
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Too Afraid to Cry, Ali Cobby Eckermann—who was recently awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, one … read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
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