When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
By: Susan H. Kamei
4.35
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In this dramatic and page-turning narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after…
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1. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston
3.70
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent … read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
"Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival."-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged b…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
"From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were dr…"-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
2. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
By: William Zinsser
4.24
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It … read more
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- nonfiction
"Less is more."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Truth needs no adornment."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Don't be kind of bold. Be bold."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
"Writers are the custodians of memory..."-William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
3. Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
By: Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Midnight in Broad Daylightis the true story of a J… read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- japan
4. Snow Falling on Cedars
By: David Guterson
3.91
Format: None pages,
Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken an… read more
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- historical
5. Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
By: Caren Stelson
4.04
Format: 323 pages,
This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's sur… read more
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6. No-No Boy
By: John Okada
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Co… read more
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7. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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8. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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9. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By: Blaine Harden
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more
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10. The Italian Ballerina
By: Kristy Cambron
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save inn… read more
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- historical
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11. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- history
- world history
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
12. Displacement
By: Kiku Hughes
4.29
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more
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- historical
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
13. Until Leaves Fall in Paris
By: Sarah Sundin
4.21
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
When the Nazis march toward Paris, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-langua… read more
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- world war ii
- historical
- war
- audiobook
14. Under the Java Moon
By: Heather B. Moore
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dut… read more
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- historical
- war
- audiobook
15. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
16. The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
4.33
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more
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17. Sharing Too Much: Inspirational Musings and Lessons from an Unlikely Life
By: Richard Paul Evans
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “king of Christmas fiction” ( The New York Times ) del… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
18. Hula
By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula
19. A Door in the Dark (Waxways, #1)
By: Scott Reintgen
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Us is Lying meets A Deadly Education in this fantasy thriller that follows six teenage wizar… read more
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20. Evergreen (Japantown Mystery #2)
By: Naomi Hirahara
3.75
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she a… read more
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- historical
- japan
21. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
23. Hollow Fires
By: Samira Ahmed
4.28
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more
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"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires
24. The Cartographer's Secret
By: Tea Cooper
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
25. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
By: Katie Ledecky
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
26. All This & More
By: Peng Shepherd
3.47
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an i… read more
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27. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
By: Elizabeth Dias
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. A Place to Belong
By: Cynthia Kadohata
4.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, give… read more
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- historical
- japan
29. The Vibes You Feel: What I’ve Learned about Life and Relationships through the Holy Spirit
By: Kierra Sheard-Kelly
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This inspiring book for teens and young women explores what it means to listen to God’s voice, bett… read more
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30. When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
By: Susan H. Kamei
4.35
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In this dramatic and page-turning narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after… read more
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- biography
- history
- world history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- japan
- audiobook
31. Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
By: United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
3.94
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Personal Justice Denied tells the extraordinary story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Ame… read more
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