Aina Hanau / Birth Land (Volume 92) (Sun Tracks)
By: Brandy Nālani McDougall
4.63
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) po…
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1. Every Day Is for the Thief
By: Teju Cole
3.70
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself… read more
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"Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spo…"-Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
By: LeAnne Howe
3.83
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 190… read more
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- indigenous
4. The Garies and Their Friends
By: Frank J. Webb
3.74
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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5. The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff
3.88
Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more
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"This is pity,"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
6. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- poetry
7. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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8. The Rise of Silas Lapham
By: William Dean Howells , Kermit Vanderbilt
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society… read more
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9. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i
By: Haunani-Kay Trask
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against … read more
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10. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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11. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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12. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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13. Ceremony
By: Leslie Marmon Silko
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more
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14. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
15. Several People Are Typing
By: Calvin Kasulke
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more
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"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
16. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
17. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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18. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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20. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
21. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By: Robert Waldinger
4.16
Format: 352 pages, ebook
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more
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22. No Land to Light On
By: Yara Zgheib
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian … read more
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23. 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
- 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
24. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
25. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
26. The Bird King
By: G. Willow Wilson
3.73
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
New from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow… read more
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"Whore," he spat at her. "If I am a whore for resisting you," she said through her teeth, "what would I have been for giving in?" "Whore," he said again."-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King
"Fatima watched them together, tethered by the particular tenderness of patient and physician, and thought that there was goodness in the world of a sort she couldn't fathom."-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King
"Perhaps, after all this bother, life was only a choice between two kinds of brutality: the wretched sort that lay on the ground before her, and the civilized sort she had left behind."-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King
"...God bless the man who first taught the world how to cure olives. He and the man who invented cheese are two unsung pillars of civilization." "They were probably women," muttered Fatima, fanning he…"-G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King
27. 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
28. Ask the Brindled: Poems (National Poetry Series)
By: No‘u Revilla
4.28
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares ever… read more
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- poetry
- indigenous
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29. from unincorporated territory [hacha]
By: Craig Santos Pérez
4.29
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
from unincorporated territory [hacha] is the first book of native Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez'… read more
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- poetry
30. The Wood at Midwinter
By: Susanna Clarke
3.73
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more
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31. Aina Hanau / Birth Land (Volume 92) (Sun Tracks)
By: Brandy Nālani McDougall
4.63
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) po… read more
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