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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

389 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
fiction historical magical realism emotional mysterious sad slow-paced
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

State of Wonder

Ann Patchett

353 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
fiction contemporary literary adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship by Sara K. Dorow

Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship

Sara K. Dorow

331 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption by Jane Jeong Trenka

Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption

Jane Jeong Trenka

300 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade by Ann Fessler

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Ann Fessler

354 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction feminism history emotional 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)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction education psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

Kao Kalia Yang

277 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

In the Time of the Butterflies

Julia Alvarez

324 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
fiction historical emotional informative medium-paced
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim

This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor

Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim

268 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction biography feminism memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced