The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
By: Molly McCully Brown
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Fir…
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1. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
By: Robin Coste Lewis
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure through time introduces us to a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
2. Olio
By: Tyehimba Jess
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narr… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- historical
- history
3. Look
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.16
Format: 84 pages,
*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- school
4. What the Living Do: Poems
By: Marie Howe
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more
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- poetry
5. The Luzhin Defense
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A chilling story of obsession and madness. Luzhin, a distracted, withdrawn boy, takes up chess as a… read more
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"And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the recognized arts. …"-Vladimir Nabokov, The Luzhin Defense
6. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
By: Molly McCully Brown
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harrowing poems from a dark corner of American history by the winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Fir… read more
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- poetry
- history
- school
- historical
- mental health
- nonfiction
- disability
7. Autobiography of a Face
By: Lucy Grealy
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years bei… read more
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8. Book of My Nights
By: Li-Young Lee
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book of My Nightsis the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed y… read more
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9. Zong!
By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more
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10. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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11. The Good Thief
By: Marie Howe
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series,… read more
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12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
13. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
- disability
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
14. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- mental health
15. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- nonfiction
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
16. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
By: Hoa Nguyen
3.89
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Hoa Nguyen’s latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressur… read more
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- poetry
- history
- nonfiction
17. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
18. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
By: Katie Mack
4.26
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more
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- history
"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
19. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
By: Greg Marshall
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability
20. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
21. My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
By: Carl Phillips
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperat… read more
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- nonfiction
22. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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- nonfiction
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
23. Magdalene: Poems
By: Marie Howe
4.10
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more
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- poetry
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems
24. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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25. Ghost Of
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.36
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- school
- mental health
26. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
27. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
29. The Symmetry of Fish (Penguin Poets)
By: Su Cho
3.83
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about i… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
30. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- nonfiction
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
31. Border Vista: Poems
By: Anni Liu
4.18
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Border Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, … read more
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