Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
By: Waris Dirie
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the…
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1. The Refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two g… read more
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"Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had…"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
2. El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.53
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
"El laberinto de los espíritus", es el desenlace de la saga de "El cementerio de los libros olvidad… read more
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"يقاس حجم السرّ بقيمة الشخص الذي نخفيه عنه"-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
"Le certezze confortano, ma si impara solo dubitando."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
"Las certezas reconfortan, pero sólo se aprende dudando."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
"Una puerta no tiene principio ni fin, tan solo puertas de entrada."-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
3. Het smelt
By: Lize Spit
3.67
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for 9789082410617 Wat als je wraak kunt nemen op een heel do… read more
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"Spijt moet je niet hebben’, zegt hij. Ik knik. ‘Heb je me wel gehoord, Eva?’ Ik knik opnieuw. ‘Wat zei ik dan?’ ‘Dat je nooit spijt moet hebben,’ zeg ik. ‘Ik versta je niet.’ ‘Spijt moet je nooit heb…"-Lize Spit, Het smelt
4. Mary John
By: Bernardo P. Carvalho , Ana Pessoa
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
<> Numa longa carta dirigida a Julio Pirata, Maria Joao faz o balanco dos anos vividos na praceta q… read more
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5. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
6. Infidel
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into interna… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
7. Funny Boy
By: Shyam Selvadurai
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more
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8. Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
By: Hibo Wardere
3.48
Format: 93 pages,
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
9. Embroideries
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
10. A Long Way Home
By: Saroo Brierley
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair
By: Christina Lamb , Nujeen Mustafa
4.15
Format: None pages, ebook
Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christin… read more
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12. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
13. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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14. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves
0.00
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Windcomes a riveting new masterpi… read more
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15. Tudo é Rio
By: Carla Madeira
4.26
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Por este livro passa um rio. Em sua correnteza, a obsessão de três personagens que não sabem desist… read more
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"Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira"-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Quem vê de fora faz arranjos melhores, mas é dentro, bem no lugar que a gente não vê, que o não dar conta ocupa tudo."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Não sabia se livrar daquele sentir, e do sentir para o consentir é só um tombinho de nada, basta um descuido para quem está andando tropeçar."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
16. The Survivors
By: Alex Schulman
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Dinner and Atonement, an instant international sensation sold in over 30 countri… read more
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17. Man vergisst nicht, wie man schwimmt
By: Christian Pokerbeats Huber
4.05
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
31. August 1999. Sengende Hitze liegt über Bodenstein, dem Heimatkaff des 15-jährigen Pascal. Es si… read more
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18. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
19. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
20. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
By: Nadia Murad
4.47
Format: 13 pages, Audio CD
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
21. A Desobediente: Biografia de Maria Teresa Horta
By: Patrícia Reis
4.59
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
A dor e o abandono chegaram cedo à vida de Teresinha, a filha mais velha de um dos mais prestigiado… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
22. Głusza
By: Anna Goc
4.60
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
"Słyszaki" – mówią czasem głusi o słyszących. Czy ludzi można opuścić językowo? Nie dać im prawa… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Futuro ancestral
By: Ailton Krenak
4.58
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Nesta nova coleção de textos, Ailton Krenak nos provoca com a radicalidade de seu pensamento insurg… read more
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- nonfiction
"Já o enunciado de florestania nasceu em um contexto regional, em um momento muito ativo da luta social dos povos que vivem na floresta. Quando Chico Mendes, seringueiros e indígenas começaram a se ar…"-Ailton Krenak, Futuro ancestral
24. Jellyfish Have No Ears
By: Adèle Rosenfeld
3.24
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Since she was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf―her life with this invis… read more
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25. Girl in the Blue Coat
By: Monica Hesse
4.04
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more
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"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat
26. This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more
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- nonfiction
"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
27. Puta feminista: Historias de una trabajadora sexual (Spanish Edition)
By: Georgina Orellano
4.57
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
«Nunca la prohibición es la solución y de eso las putas podemos dar cuenta». Un día la mujer cuyos… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
28. Adopção tardia
By: Maria Sequeira Mendes
4.65
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
É uma evidência: segundo dados recentes existem, em Portugal, sete vezes mais candidatos a adopção … read more
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- nonfiction
29. Zelfzorg is het begin van alles
By: Nina Mouton
3.73
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
Zelfzorg is het begin van alles. Van beter luisteren naar de signalen van je lijf. Van stilstaan bi… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
By: Waris Dirie
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the… read more
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- africa
- biography
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- feminism
- djibouti
- nonfiction
31. De beschermelinge
By: Mira Sys
3.49
Format: 175 pages, ebook
Een spannend en gelaagd debuut over familiebanden en de vraag of onze herinneringen wel te vertrouw… read more
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