Books set in United States of America (552)


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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend : Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe EN

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In the vein of 'What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker' and 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life', Ben Philippes candid memoir-in-essays chronicles a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces.

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Swimming Back to Trout River : A Novel by Linda Rui Feng EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
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"A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday ... In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie's growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family's shared future"--

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Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
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Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love.

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Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez EN

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A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the concep... continue

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Tales of Two Planets : Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman EN

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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making... continue

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Tastes Like War : A Memoir by Grace M. Cho EN

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Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
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A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.

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Tell Me how it Ends : An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli EN

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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.

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Terms and conditions by Lauren Asher EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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Couldn't get enough of The Fine Print? Fall in love with the next book in Lauren Asher's hot and sexy Dreamland Billionaires series . . . Declan I'm destined to become the next CEO of my family's media empire. The only problem? My grandfather's inheritance clause. Fulfilling his dying wish of getting married and having an heir seemed impossible until my assistant volunteered for the job. Our marriage was supposed to be the perfect solution to my biggest problem. But the more we act in love for the public, the more unsure I feel about our contract. Caring about Iris was never part of the deal. ... continue

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The 1619 Project : A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of America... continue

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain EN

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A feisty young boy fakes his own death to escape his abusive father and heads off down the Mississippi River with his newfound friend Jim, a runaway slave.