Wait for God to Notice
By: Sari Fordham
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"To live in Uganda today is hell," declared Uganda's Finance Minister after escaping to England. It…
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1. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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3. The Orchardist
By: Amanda Coplin
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift fami… read more
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4. The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more
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5. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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6. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
By: Jason Fagone
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. The Bookshop on the Corner
By: Jenny Colgan
4.18
Format: 407 pages, ebook
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... an… read more
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8. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide
By: Peter Allison
3.66
Format: 336 pages,
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9. 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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10. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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11. Cutting for Stone
By: Abraham Verghese
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more
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- africa
12. Into the Beautiful North
By: Luis Alberto Urrea , None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, w… read more
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13. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
By: Peter Godwin
3.57
Format: 432 pages,
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14. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
By: Gregg Olsen
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more
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15. Love Warrior
By: Glennon Doyle Melton
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her… read more
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16. Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
By: Nina Willner
4.27
Format: None pages, ebook
In this memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War es… read more
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17. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
By: Thomas Pakenham
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. The Shadow of the Sun
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule… read more
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19. Warrior Herdsmen
By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Dodoth--a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda--are a tribe in transition. They … read more
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20. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
21. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
By: Adam M. Grant
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more
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22. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
23. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
By: Michael J. Fox
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our live… read more
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24. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
25. 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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- biography
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"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
26. Broken Horses
By: Brandi Carlile
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about a l… read more
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"Love isn't a feeling. It's something we do, and a promise that we keep."-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses
"I understand who I am as an artist because I understand that I don’t understand who I am as an artist."-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses
"The people and events that had come along and healed me never went unnoticed. My dad pointed out recently that after my botched baptism, I started to gather people--congregants, squads, cheerleaders.…"-Brandi Carlile, Broken Horses
27. Stories of the Sahara
By: Sanmao
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very firs… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Humans are really strange. when no one validates you, you often can't perceive your own value."-Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara
"I wanted a taste of many different lives, sophisticated or simple, highbrow or low. Only then would this journey be worthwhile. (Although perhaps a life plain as porridge would never be an option for…"-Sanmao, Stories of the Sahara
28. The Woods of Fannin County
By: Janisse Ray
4.45
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
In the fall of 1945, eight children, all brothers and sisters, vanished from a small rental house i… read more
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29. Tea, Scones, and Malaria: A memoir of growing up in Africa
By: Katlynn Brooke
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Hilarious, touching, raw, and deeply honest, this memoir records the journey from child to teenager… read more
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30. Under My Bed and Other Essays (American Lives)
By: Jody Keisner
4.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jody Keisner was raised in rural Nebraska towns by a volatile father and kind but passive mother. A… read more
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31. Wait for God to Notice
By: Sari Fordham
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"To live in Uganda today is hell," declared Uganda's Finance Minister after escaping to England. It… read more
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