The Death of My Father the Pope: A Memoir
By: Obed Silva
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drin…
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1. Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
By: Domingo Martinez
3.65
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, T… read more
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"Hope disappears. And still you go on. Then suddenly it's over. And hope doesn't surprise you again, once it's gone. It has a different name. Different face. And you're not happy to see it, or surpris…"-Domingo Martinez, Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
"You go and do what you need to do, June," she says to me. "You go and find what you need. Your supper will be here, when you need it. Your supper will be warm. No matter where I am, that will be your…"-Domingo Martinez, Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
2. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
By: Isabel Quintero
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Named to Kirkus ReviewsBest Books of 2014 Named to School Library JournalBest Books of 2014 Gabi He… read more
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3. Children of the New World
By: None
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVV… read more
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4. Always Running
By: Luis J. Rodríguez
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the da… read more
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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
6. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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7. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
8. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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9. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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- memoir
10. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
11. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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12. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
13. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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14. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
15. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
16. Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Prisc… read more
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- biography memoir
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"I loved babying Elvis"-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
"He was a man, a very special man"-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
"He was truly a master at manipulating people"-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
"I was Elvis's doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased"-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
17. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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18. Family Lore
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
3.53
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more
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19. She Memes Well
By: Quinta Brunson
4.07
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary ) comes a deep… read more
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20. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
21. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Tommie Smith
4.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more
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22. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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23. Judas Goat: Poems
By: Gabrielle Bates
4.21
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more
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24. Remember Love: Words for Tender Times
By: Cleo Wade
4.42
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk , hailed as “the poet of her generation… read more
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25. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- memoir
26. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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27. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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28. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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29. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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30. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
31. The Death of My Father the Pope: A Memoir
By: Obed Silva
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drin… read more
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