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An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond

An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America

Edwin Raymond

10 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction memoir dark informative sad medium-paced
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

Gretchen Sisson

10 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction feminism gender politics sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction history sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now

Elaine Castillo

340 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

8 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

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fiction contemporary thriller young adult dark emotional tense fast-paced
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by Carla Shalaby

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School

Carla Shalaby

240 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction education informative inspiring medium-paced
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown by Taylor Harris

This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

Taylor Harris

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0lcl_reads's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds

There Was a Party for Langston

Jason Reynolds

56 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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fiction childrens adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

476 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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fiction science fiction adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced