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11 books

Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants by Ted Conover

Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants

Vintage Departures

Ted Conover

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction politics sociology medium-paced
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

322 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction biography health challenging informative medium-paced
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

274 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Solito by Javier Zamora

Solito

Javier Zamora

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction memoir emotional sad tense medium-paced
The Overstory by Richard Powers

The Overstory

Richard Powers

502 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
fiction literary emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

624 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction biography sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

324 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Beverly Daniel Tatum

464 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction education psychology race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

464 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0ambertharakan's review
nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced