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106 books

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Patty Krawec

217 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Abigail Pesta, Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Abigail Pesta, Sandra Uwiringiyimana

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Shannon Harris

247 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith

Tilly and the Crazy Eights

Monique Gray Smith

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
fiction contemporary emotional fast-paced
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Myths Made in America

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Nick Turse

370 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative medium-paced
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

Liza Mundy

480 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature technology challenging informative medium-paced