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We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Dahr Jamail

13 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature race emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

7 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Taffa

Whiskey Tender

Deborah Taffa

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Patty Krawec

240 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Shannon Harris

244 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith

Tilly and the Crazy Eights

Monique Gray Smith

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
fiction contemporary emotional fast-paced
"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Nick Turse

370 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative medium-paced