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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

12 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2006 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
nonfiction feminism history emotional reflective slow-paced
New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep by Samantha Irby

New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep

Samantha Irby

20 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective fast-paced
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley

30 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
fiction historical challenging emotional sad slow-paced
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death

Caitlin Doughty

348 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
nonfiction science sociology funny informative fast-paced
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

The Other Americans

Laila Lalami

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
fiction contemporary literary mystery emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

210 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight by Duncan Tonatiuh

Undocumented: A Worker's Fight

Duncan Tonatiuh

15 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
nonfiction childrens comics emotional fast-paced
Henrietta by Helen Vollmer Elam

Henrietta

Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)

Helen Vollmer Elam

130 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
nonfiction history medium-paced
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables #1

L.M. Montgomery

427 pages • first pub 1908 (editions)

5.0kellymy's review
fiction classics middle grade funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced