The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

7 best books like The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (Margaret Regan): The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Parkland: Birth of a Movement, The Capture, We the Animals, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Author	Sam Kean
ISBN	0316051640

Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?

The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific...

Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Author	Dave Cullen
ISBN	0062882945

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement.

Emma Gonzalez...

The Capture

Author	Kathryn Lasky
ISBN	0439405572

Mum: How many stars would you give this?

LRN: I think a solid five. It was very good; better than the movie even.

Mum: So what happens in this book?

LRN: Soren is pushed out of his hollow by his brother, Kludd.

Mum: Ugh, that's an ugly name.

LRN: I know. It's a bad...

We the Animals

Author	Justin Torres
ISBN	0547576722

An exquisite, blistering debut novel.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood — smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are...

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

Author	Brené Brown
ISBN	1592402631

An affirming, revealing examination of the painful effects of shame—with new, powerful strategies that promise to transform a woman’s ability to love, parent, work, and build relationships.

Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear and blame are just a...

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

Author	Luis Alberto Urrea
ISBN	0385425309

            Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen.  Urrea gives us a compassionate...

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

Author	Emily Oster
ISBN	1594204756

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.

Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...