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White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

White Chrysanthemum

Mary Lynn Bracht

320 pages • hardcover • 2018

5.0_askthebookbug's review
fiction historical challenging emotional sad fast-paced
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney

The Red Pencil

Andrea Davis Pinkney

308 pages • hardcover • 2014

5.0_askthebookbug's review
fiction historical middle grade poetry emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India by Aparna Vaidik

My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India

Aparna Vaidik

192 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction history challenging emotional fast-paced
If I Had to Tell It Again: A Memoir by Gayathri Prabhu

If I Had to Tell It Again: A Memoir

Gayathri Prabhu

192 pages • digital

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom

256 pages • hardcover • 2019

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose by Samra Zafar

A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

Samra Zafar

352 pages • digital • 2019

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust by Tammy Bottner

Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust

Tammy Bottner

376 pages • paperback • 2017

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction emotional medium-paced
The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment by Joy Ma, Dilip D'Souza

The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment

Joy Ma, Dilip D'Souza

missing page info • hardcover • 2020

5.0_askthebookbug's review
nonfiction emotional reflective medium-paced
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Cynthia Kadohata

244 pages • paperback • 2004

5.0_askthebookbug's review
fiction young adult emotional sad medium-paced
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

389 pages • hardcover • 2017

5.0_askthebookbug's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced