Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
By: Lois Beardslee
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Oji…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
By: Art Spiegelman
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more
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- nonfiction
"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
3. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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5. The Iron Flower (The Black Witch Chronicles, #2)
By: Laurie Forest
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest will be available Sep 25, 2018. Preorder your copy today! read more
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6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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7. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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8. The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles, #1)
By: Laurie Forest
3.96
Format: None pages,
A new Black Witch will rise...her powers vast beyond imagining. Elloren Gardner is the granddaughte… read more
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9. The Lost Library
By: Rebecca Stead
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more
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"But aren’t “parents"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"That delicious book smell, his heart said."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
10. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
11. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
By: Zoraida Córdova
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more
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"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
12. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
13. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
14. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
15. Revenge of the Librarians
By: Tom Gauld
3.94
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more
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16. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
17. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- nonfiction
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
18. The Shadow Wand (The Black Witch Chronicles, #3)
By: Laurie Forest
4.07
Format: 554 pages, Unknown Binding
HER WORLD-ALTERING SECRET CAN’T BE HIDDEN MUCH LONGER Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful se… read more
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19. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
20. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
21. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
22. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
23. VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more
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- indigenous
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo
24. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
25. What the Chickadee Knows
By: Margaret Noodin
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gij… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- indigenous
26. Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
By: Lisa Kröger
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This celebration of forgotten magical women, from Salem to WitchTok, is a fascinating and empowerin… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Walking the Old Road: A People's History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
By: Staci Lola Drouillard
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
28. Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
By: Adrienne Keene
4.60
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
29. Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America
By: Matika Wilbur
4.72
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native America… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
30. Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
By: Lois Beardslee
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Oji… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
31. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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- native american
- indigenous
