Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
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1. Freddy and Fredericka
By: Mark Helprin
3.31
Format: None pages,
Mark Helprin's legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are … read more
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- audiobook
2. Stolen Girls Survivors Of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
By: Wolfgang Bauer
3.84
Format: 523 pages,
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of … read more
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3. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
By: Thor Hanson
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 1… read more
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4. A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
By: Kevin Brockmeier
3.93
Format: 245 pages, ebook
The acclaimed novelist recalls the most difficult year of his life, with all its mistakes, triumphs… read more
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5. 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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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"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
6. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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- race
- adult
- audiobook
"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
7. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
8. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
9. Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more
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"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
10. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
4.72
Format: 602 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more
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- race
- biography
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- nonfiction
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".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
11. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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- race
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- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
12. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
13. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
By: Anna Gazmarian
3.63
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more
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14. 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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- africa
- audiobook
"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
15. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Natasha Trethewey
4.25
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more
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- adult
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"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
16. Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
3.94
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
17. Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more
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18. Call Me Zebra
By: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
2.86
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A feisty heroine’s quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature, even as she navigates… read more
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- audiobook
"I have been pushed by the world into a state of psychic feudalism. and you want me to make myself vulnerable to you. How much vulnerability do you think one person can take? Do you want me to rip my …"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
"I, Zebra, am recrossing borders I have already crossed in order to map the literature of the void and prove once and for all that any thought worth preserving in our pitiable human record was manifes…"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
"A love I was in no position to receive despite desperately needing it. No. Not I with my castaway, homeless body. Where would I store it? It would fall right through me, sink into the depths of my vo…"-Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
19. Golem Girl: A Memoir
By: Riva Lehrer
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstros… read more
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- biography memoir
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20. The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
By: Jared Yates Sexton
4.21
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis… read more
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- mental health
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- audiobook
21. No One Dies Yet
By: Kobby Ben Ben
3.67
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giv… read more
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