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10 best books like Radio Iris (Anne-Marie Kinney): The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library, Tunnel of Bones, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, A Stone Sat Still, The Other Typist, They Called Us Enemy, The Beautiful Bureaucrat, An American Sunrise: Poems, The Boy At the Back of the Class, Midsummer's Mayhem

The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library
AuthorNew York Public Library
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.

June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered...
Tunnel of Bones
AuthorVictoria Schwab
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.

She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly...
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
AuthorRachel Louise Snyder
An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...
A Stone Sat Still
AuthorBrendan Wenzel
ISBN1452173184
I simply loved this book because it has the potential for different perspectives of how and when we read it. It will be different for the children. They will enjoy the illustrations and the various animals and flora depicted in relation to the stone. And as for adults, I feel this book describes a home to...
The Other Typist
AuthorSuzanne Rindell
ISBN0241963745
A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…

Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes...
They Called Us Enemy
AuthorGeorge Takei
ISBN1603094504
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
AuthorHelen Phillips
ISBN1627793763
A young wife's new job in an enigmatic organization pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in this inventive and compulsively page-turning first novel

In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers...
An American Sunrise: Poems
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN1324003863
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds...
The Boy At the Back of the Class
AuthorOnjali Q. Rauf
There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it.

He's eight years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite!

But the truth is, Ahmet...
Midsummer's Mayhem
AuthorRajani LaRocca
ISBN1499808887
"A delectable treat for food and literary connoisseurs alike." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW

"What a wonderful, intriguing, and magical book. And wow, did it ever get my tastebuds going! Each time I picked it up, I felt the urge to head to my kitchen. . . . What I loved most was the smartness of...
Lalani of the Distant Sea
AuthorErin Entrada Kelly
ISBN0062747290
There are stories of extraordinary children who are chosen from birth to complete great quests and conquer evil villains.

This is no such story.

Sometimes, you are an ordinary child.

Sometimes, you have to choose yourself.

This is the story of Lalani Sarita, a twelve-year-old...
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