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241 books

These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons by Ramzy Baroud

These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons

Ramzy Baroud

204 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction history politics race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It

Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

208 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction biography feminism history memoir race emotional informative slow-paced
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Mayukh Sen

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction food and drink history informative inspiring medium-paced
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

7 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Scared Silent by Mildred Muhammad

Scared Silent

Mildred Muhammad

261 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction memoir true crime challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

229 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction memoir challenging dark sad medium-paced
Soul in Exile by Fawaz Turki

Soul in Exile

Fawaz Turki

206 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

105 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced
Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance by Ramsey Hanhan

Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance

Ramsey Hanhan

414 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

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fiction
War in Ukraine by Nicolas J.S. Davies, Medea Benjamin

War in Ukraine

Nicolas J.S. Davies, Medea Benjamin

198 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jiujensu's review
nonfiction politics dark informative tense medium-paced