A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories on the Pandemic (Six-Word Memoirs)
By: Larry Smith
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The tenth book in the Six-Word Memoir series tells the story of a world we never expected to be in …
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1. The Witches of New York
By: Ami McKay
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
The beloved, bestselling author of The Birth Houseand The Virgin Cureis back with her most beguilin… read more
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2. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)
By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more
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3. The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection
By: Jennifer L. Holm , Lemony Snicket , Bob Shea , Kate DiCamillo , Sherman Alexie , Jarrett J. Krosoczka , R.J. Palacio , Chris Grabenstein , Debbie Ridpath Ohi , Dav Pilkey , Linda Sue Park , Linda Urban , Margarita Engle , Gary D. Schmidt , Tom Angleberger , Tracey Baptiste , Liesl Shurtliff , Dan Santat , Mariko Tamaki , Grace Lin , Jewell Parker Rhodes , Naomi Shihab Nye , Sophie Blackall , Kirby Larson , Laurel Snyder , Kate Messner , Deborah Freedman , Adam Gidwitz , Kat Yeh , Laurie Keller , Victoria Jamieson , Daniel Nayeri , Lisa Brown , Andrea Davis Pinkney , Frank Viva , Lauren Castillo , Jessixa Bagley , Minh Lê , Jess Keating , Javaka Steptoe , Peter Brown , None , Travis Jonker , John Schu
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Book advocate Colby Sharp presents more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse and bestselling … read more
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4. A Place Called Home (A Place Called Home, #1)
By: Lori Wick
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
As the dim lights of the train station faded, Christine Bennett wondered if she would ever see home… read more
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5. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
By: Brad Meltzer
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
6. Alone
By: Megan E. Freeman
4.14
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more
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- poetry
7. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Out of the Corner
By: Jennifer Grey
3.81
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
9. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
10. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
11. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
12. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
14. If You Would Have Told Me
By: John Stamos
3.81
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. In This Moment (Timeless, #2)
By: Gabrielle Meyer
4.48
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives… read more
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16. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
17. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
18. The Littlest Library
By: Poppy Alexander
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more
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"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library
19. When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
By: Gabrielle Meyer
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
How will she choose, knowing all she must sacrifice? Libby has been given a powerful gift: to l… read more
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"Only God is in control of our destiny. He alone is sovereign. When we try to control the people and events around us we are telling Him He doesn't know what's best for us. We're setting ourselves up …"-Gabrielle Meyer, When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
"And what about faith? Hadn't Mama taught me that God is a good and faithful father, that He knew the plans He had for me, and they were plans to proper me and not to harm me? If she had lived through…"-Gabrielle Meyer, When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
20. Much Ado About You
By: Samantha Young
3.67
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
The cozy comforts of an English village bookstore open up a world of new possibilities for Evie Sta… read more
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"Such benign little words — ‘what if.’ But at some point in life, those two words become the scariest two words in the English language."-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You
"Viola, you're allowed to be confident and to think that you're smart and pretty and deserving of the best. Unfortunately, we live in a society where we tell our kids to be confident and successful an…"-Samantha Young, Much Ado About You
21. Smells Like Tween Spirit
By: Laurie Gelman
4.08
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
Even with the cutthroat days of being Class Mom behind her, as a freshly minted mat mom of the Pion… read more
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22. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
By: Alexandra Robbins
4.19
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
23. Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
By: Kim Todd
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A vivid social history that brings to light the “girl stunt reporters” of the Gilded Age who went u… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)"-Kim Todd, Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
24. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
25. Elsewhere
By: Alexis Schaitkin
3.82
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more
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"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere
26. Funeral Girl
By: Emma K. Ohland
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run--especiall… read more
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27. Can't Look Away
By: Carola Lovering
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's 2013, and twenty-three-year-old Brooklyn barista Molly Diamond has just locked eyes with Jake … read more
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28. Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas hav… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
By: Michael Leali
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt debut novel about a boy's attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for … read more
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"Just because a bunch of mostly white men hammered history into one shape, it doesn’t mean they got it right."-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
"Maybe, if we want things to change, we have to stop waiting. Maybe we just need to do something about it ourselves."-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
"As long as there are people on the planet, life will be unfair, but that doesn’t mean we have to put up with hatred or bigotry."-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
"Most all my life, I have blindly accepted what was written in history books and taught in classes. I didn’t think to ask if there was more to the story."-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
30. Until Someone Listens: A Story About Borders, Family, and One Girl's Mission
By: Estela Juarez
4.46
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
When Estela Juarez's mom is deported to Mexico, Estela knows she has to speak up for her family. To… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories on the Pandemic (Six-Word Memoirs)
By: Larry Smith
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The tenth book in the Six-Word Memoir series tells the story of a world we never expected to be in … read more
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- poetry
- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
