Finding Jesus at the Border
By: Julia Lambert Fogg
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Immigration is an issue of major concern within the Christian community. As Christians, how should …
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1. The Leavers
By: Lisa Ko
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at… read more
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2. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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4. Where the Line Bleeds
By: Jesmyn Ward
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
Set in a rural town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Where the Line Bleedstells the story of fraterna… read more
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5. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
6. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
7. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
8. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- nonfiction
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
9. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
10. The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)
By: James Patterson
4.13
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
Trouble always finds the Women's Murder Club... Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire … read more
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11. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Beth Allison Barr
4.40
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
12. The Wind Knows My Name
By: Isabel Allende
4.03
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Se… read more
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"Hay que estar tranquilas. No estamos perdidas. El viento conoce mi nombre y también el tuyo… No hay que tener miedo."-Isabel Allende, The Wind Knows My Name
13. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
14. We Are Not Like Them
By: Christine Pride
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Told from alternating perspectives, this novel follows two women, one Black and one white, whose fr… read more
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15. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
By: Jamie Ford
3.87
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more
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"Don't change. Instead change the world."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
16. How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
3.95
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, … read more
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"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
17. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
By: Layla F. Saad
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more
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- nonfiction
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
18. Winter's Mourn (Winter Black #1)
By: Mary Stone
4.31
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
A killer is watching… Thirteen years ago, Winter Black came home early from a sleepover to find … read more
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19. 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
20. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
By: Darcie Little Badger
4.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more
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"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
21. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- nonfiction
22. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
By: Brittany K. Barnett
4.59
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story ab… read more
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- nonfiction
"Teachers, lawyers, social workers, activists-anyone who works with the directly impacted, anyone who confronts the system day in and day out-will tell you that residual trauma is real."-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"No matter how many times my dad urged me to reach for the stars, my understanding of the universe was still confined by the world' limited notion of what a Black country girl from the South could do …"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"A statue of a lone Confederate general towers over the Clarksville town center. To hear my grandpa tell it the general was built looking sternly over the Black side of town as a warning regarding whe…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
"But it was 1996, and America's War on Drugs was in full throttle. Resources for drug treatment were scant, while money was being poured into law enforcement and prisons. People with addiction like Ma…"-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
23. Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
By: Shane Claiborne
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtow… read more
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- nonfiction
- christian non fiction
- theology
"Violence is often the instrument of those who are impatient, those who lack imagination, those who cannot wait on justice or freedom or redemption."-Shane Claiborne, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
"Idols are things we put our trust in. They are not God, but we treat then like they are. They take on a transcendent, magical character. We hold them with a sacred reverence that should only be given…"-Shane Claiborne, Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
24. The House on Lowell Street: A Novel
By: Linda A. Keane
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Based on a true the strike of the Kalamazoo corset workers in 1912. Rose Morrison's comfortable l… read more
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25. Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey
By: Gena Thomas
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Boy Who Delivered Joy
By: Marvin Bartlett
4.66
Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition
A rare bone cancer robbed Jarrett Mynear of a normal childhood when he was two years old, but it di… read more
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27. We Are Called to Be a Movement
By: William J. Barber II
4.47
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
It's time for everyone who cares about the state of our nation to heed the call and join forces to … read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
28. The Bible and Borders: Hearing God's Word on Immigration
By: M. Daniel Carroll R.
4.14
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
With so many people around the globe migrating, how should Christians and the church respond? Leadi… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
29. We Go On: Finding Purpose in All of Life’s Sorrows and Joys
By: John Onwuchekwa
4.54
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Do you often ask the question "What is my purpose in life?" Rich with black-and-white photography, … read more
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30. Finding Jesus at the Border
By: Julia Lambert Fogg
3.93
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Immigration is an issue of major concern within the Christian community. As Christians, how should … read more
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- nonfiction
- christian non fiction
- theology
31. How the Woman at the Well Became the Well Woman: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Ordinary Life
By: Donna Rhodes
3.85
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
This memoir is the story of an extraordinary ordinary life. It is is the poignant life story of a w… read more
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