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105 books

Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns by Christine J. Gardner

Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns

Christine J. Gardner

249 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt

The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less

Christine Platt

224 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction self help informative medium-paced
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay

143 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage by Paula Barragán, Daniel Minter, Simone Shin, Julie Downing, Marilyn Nelson, Douglas Florian, Margarita Engle, Neil Waldman, Nick Bruel, Janine Macbeth, R Gregory Christie, Naomi Shihab Nye, Janet S. Wong, Joseph Bruchac, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Insoo Kim, Kwame Alexander, G Neri, Sawsan Chalabi, Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Rafael López, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Sean Qualls, Jane Yolen, Michele Wood, David Fadden, Carole Boston Weatherford, Juliet Menendez, Charlotte Riley-Webb

I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage

Paula Barragán, Daniel Minter, Simone Shin, Julie Downing, Marilyn Nelson, Douglas Florian, Margarita Engle, Neil Waldman, Nick Bruel, Janine Macbeth, R Gregory Christie, Naomi Shihab Nye, Janet S. Wong, Joseph Bruchac, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Insoo Kim, Kwame Alexander, G Neri, Sawsan Chalabi, Jeanne Rorex Bridges, Rafael López, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Sean Qualls, Jane Yolen, Michele Wood, David Fadden, Carole Boston Weatherford, Juliet Menendez, Charlotte Riley-Webb

56 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction middle grade poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by David Roberts

Suffragette: The Battle for Equality

David Roberts

128 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Robopocalypse

Robopocalypse #1

Daniel H. Wilson

396 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
fiction science fiction thriller adventurous dark tense fast-paced
Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith by Daniel Silliman

Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

Daniel Silliman

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

Aaron Lansky

316 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee, David John

The Girl with Seven Names

Hyeonseo Lee, David John

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Barbara Demick

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0krista_lm's review
nonfiction history informative sad medium-paced