Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
By: Celia Stahr
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the a…
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1. The Country of the Pointed Firs
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a small, coastal town in Maine, this enduring sequence of intimate stories has assumed its r… read more
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2. Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
By: Hayden Herrera , Joel Avirom
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked op… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
3. This House of Grief
By: Helen Garner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more
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- nonfiction
4. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
By: Warren St. John
4.22
Format: 224 pages,
The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.… read more
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5. The Lost Letter
By: Mimi Matthews
4.03
Format: 244 pages, ebook
Alternative cover edition for ASIN B07777L5NP. A PROUD BEAUTY Society beauty Sylvia Stafford… read more
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- historical
"She briefly closed her eyes as a fiery blush crept into her face. "The first letter," she repeated. "Of course it would be." "Milsom bought it from her for fifty pounds. He brought it back to Pershin…"-Mimi Matthews, The Lost Letter
6. Calling for a Blanket Dance
By: Oscar Hokeah
4.25
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more
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"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance
7. A Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more
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"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
8. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
9. A Traitor in Whitehall (Parisian Orphan, #1)
By: Julia Kelly
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the … read more
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- historical
10. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- lgbt
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
11. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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- historical
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
12. The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
By: Sheldon Whitehouse
4.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” ( Kirk… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set during the waning days… read more
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- historical
- school
14. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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- art
- historical
15. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
16. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
By: Christy Harrison
4.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that p… read more
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- nonfiction
17. 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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- nonfiction
- history
18. The Forgotten Home Child
By: Genevieve Graham
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caugh… read more
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- historical
19. The Skin and Its Girl
By: Sarah Cypher
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping… read more
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- lgbt
"But I tell you, I recognize myself by death's mark, and for a time I imagined almost every day that it were different, that I could be anything other than impossibly blue."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"But what was death to me, when it was my first act in life? Death looked like the house of the body opening, returning to a wider place: that place of confusion and strange beauty."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"I had the first inkling that some kinds of splendor were invisible to others. Were not wrong. And the solitude of this knowledge was wide and comfortable, a sort of imaginary palace."-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
"Do you know what it's like to be bewitched? Your mind bends. Your entire life shrinks to the size of a small room. The imagination is a fever. You can't stand it. Nobody can stand it-that's the point…"-Sarah Cypher, The Skin and Its Girl
20. The Travelers
By: Regina Porter
3.61
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American back… read more
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- historical
21. How the Light Gets In
By: Joyce Maynard
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more
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- historical
22. Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
By: Michelle Moran
4.30
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dram… read more
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- historical
23. The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
By: Lydia Reeder
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but mothe… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
24. Songs for the Brokenhearted
By: Ayelet Tsabari
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better li… read more
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- historical
25. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more
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- historical
26. Betrayal at Blackthorn Park (Evelyne Redfern, #2)
By: Julia Kelly
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
With mystery, intrigue, and the hints of romance international bestselling author Julia Kelly is kn… read more
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- historical
27. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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- nonfiction
28. Clear Seeing Place
By: Brian Rutenberg
4.35
Format: 324 pages, ebook
From the salt marshes and moss-draped live oaks of the South Carolina Lowcountry to the New York ar… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
29. Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
By: Celia Stahr
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the a… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- school
- lgbt
- historical
- feminism
- art design
- nonfiction
30. Time of the Child
By: Niall Williams
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas sea… read more
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- historical
31. Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
By: Paul French
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
