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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

269 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction education memoir politics emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed by Judy Shepard

The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

Judy Shepard

271 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
The Pink Marine: One Boy's Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood by Norman Lear, Greg Cope White

The Pink Marine: One Boy's Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood

Norman Lear, Greg Cope White

266 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction emotional reflective slow-paced
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

51 minutes • first pub 1963 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction classics politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

Paul Kix

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction history race sociology informative inspiring medium-paced
I'm Looking Through You by Jennifer Finney Boylan

I'm Looking Through You

Jennifer Finney Boylan

9 hours, 35 minutes • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark funny medium-paced
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

452 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Jennifer Finney Boylan

326 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America by Donald W Burnes, Kevin F. Adler

When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

Donald W Burnes, Kevin F. Adler

299 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction politics sociology challenging hopeful informative slow-paced
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

608 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0crazylady_usmc's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced