The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
By: Somaly Mam
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her gran…
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1. Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
By: Zainab Salbi , Laurie Becklund
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot … read more
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3. The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
By: Somaly Mam
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her gran… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- asia
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
4. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jes… read more
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- nonfiction
5. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By: Ishmael Beah
4.19
Format: 416 pages,
The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twe… read more
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
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6. Ghost Girl
By: Torey L. Hayden
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her,… read more
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7. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
By: Linda Coverdale , Delphine Minoui , Nujood Ali
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since foreve… read more
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8. We Bought a Zoo
By: Benjamin Mee
4.17
Format: None pages,
When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home--a dilapidated… read more
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9. Lakota Woman
By: Richard Erdoes , None
3.84
Format: 464 pages,
Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on th… read more
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10. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
11. The Last Jew of Treblinka
By: Chil Rajchman
4.35
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more
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"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
12. Enrique's Journey
By: Sonia Nazario
3.88
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w… read more
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"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her.…"-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
13. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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14. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
By: Conor Grennan
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and h… read more
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15. Never Fall Down
By: Patricia McCormick
3.62
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable sto… read more
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16. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
By: Steve Erwin , Immaculée Ilibagiza
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 19… read more
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17. The Underground Girls of Kabul
By: Jenny Nordberg
3.95
Format: None pages,
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what… read more
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18. Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas buenas
By: Marian Rojas Estapé
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Entiende tu cerebro, gestiona tus emociones, mejora tu vida. Uniendo el punto de vista científic… read more
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19. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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20. De siger jeg er psykopat
By: Tine Wøbbe
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Psykopater findes i alle samfundslag – i magtfulde chefstillinger, i almindelige job, på offentlig … read more
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21. Fauci: Expect the Unexpected
By: Anthony Fauci
3.89
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Compiled from hours of interviews drawn from the eponymous National Geographic documentary, this in… read more
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