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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

498 pages • 2013 • 11 editions

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Marina Keegan

208 pages • 2014 • 18 editions

nonfiction essays short stories inspiring medium-paced
The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor

The Keillor Reader

Garrison Keillor

400 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction biography classics essays literary memoir reflective slow-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by Glenn Kurtz
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
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Glenn Kurtz

Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

Glenn Kurtz

432 pages • 2014 • 6 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen N. La Motte

The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

Ellen N. La Motte

202 pages • 1916 • 11 editions

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
Bowie: The Biography by Wendy Leigh

Bowie: The Biography

Wendy Leigh

311 pages • 2014 • 10 editions

nonfiction biography music informative slow-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann

Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

William J. Mann

528 pages • 2014 • 8 editions

nonfiction history mystery true crime informative mysterious slow-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver

Blue Horses: Poems

Mary Oliver

96 pages • 2014 • 11 editions

nonfiction nature poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Jesus: The Human Face of God by Jay Parini

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Jesus: The Human Face of God

Jay Parini

170 pages • 2013 • 2 editions

nonfiction biography religion challenging reflective slow-paced
5.0 cook_memo...'s review
Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Yes Please

Amy Poehler

329 pages • 2014 • 26 editions

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted medium-paced
4.0 cook_memo...'s review