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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

416 pages • paperback • 2021

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Beartown

Beartown #1

Fredrik Backman

13 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2016

5.0claire_s's review
fiction contemporary literary sports emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cassie Chambers

7 hours, 34 minutes • audio • 2020

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction biography history memoir emotional slow-paced
Herbal Handbook by The New York Botanical Garden

Herbal Handbook

The New York Botanical Garden

175 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction nature informative fast-paced
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

312 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

5 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2022

5.0claire_s's review
fiction literary science fiction adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town by Hannah Kirshner

Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Hannah Kirshner

358 pages • paperback • 2021

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction essays food and drink travel informative relaxing medium-paced
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home by David Lebovitz

L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

David Lebovitz

368 pages • paperback • 2017

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction memoir travel funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

256 pages • hardcover • 2020

5.0claire_s's review
fiction dystopian literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

4 hours, 26 minutes • audio • 2020

5.0claire_s's review
nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced