Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life (One Syrian's Story)
By: Hassan Al Kontar
4.24
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
His only weapon was a cellphone. When revolution and war broke out in his home country in 2011, …
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1. Prisoner of Tehran
By: Marina Nemat
4.21
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 usher… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Child, we can't see the face of God with these eyes, but with our souls. You have to know that death is only a step we have to take to reach the other world and live, only in a different way."-Marina Nemat, Prisoner of Tehran
"تمنيت ان اعفو عنه ولا كن العفو لا ياتي دفعه واحده كهديه مغلفه بشريط احمرانما ياتي تدريجيا بالاضافه الي ذلك لن يمحو العفو اثار الالم اللذي سببه لي سوف يلازمني هذا الالم ما حيت لاكن هذا العفو سيساعدني …"-Marina Nemat, Prisoner of Tehran
2. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
By: David John , Hyeonseo Lee
4.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorshi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"He’d valued his dignity more than his own life."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
"I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled."-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
3. The Captain's Verses
By: Pablo Neruda , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of P… read more
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4. A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley, #4)
By: Elizabeth George
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspec… read more
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5. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By: Ishmael Beah
4.19
Format: 416 pages,
The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twe… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
6. Burma Chronicles
By: Guy Delisle
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Burma Chronicles' presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot,… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
8. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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9. The Client
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...El… read more
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10. The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
By: J.K. Rowling , Robert Galbraith
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the … read more
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"Nutters love murder."-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
"Hesitation was fatal. Choose."-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
"Lightning doesn't strike twice."-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
"All love, ultimately, is self-love."-J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
11. Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley, #3)
By: Elizabeth George
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public sch… read more
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12. A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)
By: Elizabeth George
4.04
Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hu… read more
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13. Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)
By: Elizabeth George
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish … read more
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14. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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15. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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16. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more
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18. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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19. What Strange Paradise
By: Omar El Akkad
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise
20. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
21. XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness
By: Cody Rigsby
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York Ci… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
By: Serj Tankian
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
23. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
24. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing
By: Olga Mecking
3.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Dutch people are some of the happiest in the world. Their secret? They are masters of niksen, o… read more
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26. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
27. The Chicken Sisters
By: K.J. Dell'Antonia
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more
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"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
28. Hell and Gone (Wakeland, #3)
By: Sam Wiebe
4.02
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A captivating new thriller in the Wakeland detective series that explores the depths of Vancouver's… read more
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29. Sunset and Jericho (Wakeland, #4)
By: Sam Wiebe
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The fourth thrilling installment of the Wakeland detective series, exploring the depths of Vancouve… read more
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30. Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life (One Syrian's Story)
By: Hassan Al Kontar
4.24
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
His only weapon was a cellphone. When revolution and war broke out in his home country in 2011, … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
31. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
