More Alike Than Different: My Life with Down Syndrome
By: David Egan
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Storm
By: Kate Chopin
3.61
Format: 4 pages,
"The Storm" is a short story by the American writer Kate Chopin, written in 1898. It did not appear… read more
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2. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more
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3. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
4. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo
3.60
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. How Lucky
By: Will Leitch
3.77
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Nothing to See Here, a first n… read more
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- disability
6. I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
By: Tyler Merritt
4.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Blac… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Life is too short to spend tons of time around people who suck."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"If you don't deal with your stuff, your stuff will deal with you."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"Someone once told me that true change always begins in our mind, and that people who live great lives are people who habitually think great thoughts."-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
"The deepest part of you is NOT your mistakes or your failures. When God looks at you, He sees so much deeper than your mistakes to your actual identity, your true worth and value. And those of us who…"-Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
7. Holding Pattern
By: Jenny Xie
3.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more
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8. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
By: Agatha Christie
3.91
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was mu… read more
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"Uncertainty creates panic."-Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
9. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
10. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
By: Molly Shannon
4.13
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
11. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
By: Emily Ladau
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable step… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
12. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Flight Girls
By: Noelle Salazar
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots whose courage during World War II turned o… read more
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"Not everyone needs a relationship to feel fulfilled."-Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls
14. The Saturday Night Ghost Club
By: Craig Davidson
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more
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"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club
15. The Wilderwomen
By: Ruth Emmie Lang
3.50
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with ext… read more
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16. The Reunion
By: Kayla Olson
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feel… read more
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17. If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
By: Julie Murphy
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After having just graduated with a degree in shoe design, and trying to get her feet on the ground,… read more
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"Actually," Stacy says, "Stanley Tucci is everyone's type."-Julie Murphy, If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
"Don't you see how belittling this is! I'm not brave for wearing a dress. I'm just living!"-Julie Murphy, If the Shoe Fits (Meant to Be, #1)
18. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
19. Girls Like Us
By: Cristina Alger
3.81
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated and bestselling author of The Banker's Wife, worlds collide when an FBI agent i… read more
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"Memories, particularly the traumatic ones, are mercurial. The longer you live with them, the more fallible you realize them to be."-Cristina Alger, Girls Like Us
20. More Alike Than Different: My Life with Down Syndrome
By: David Egan
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, giving us a window into a life spent push… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
