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Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story by Beverley Naidoo

Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
Beverley Naidoo with Eric Velásquez

96 pages • paperback • 1986 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story

Beverley Naidoo with Eric Velásquez

96 pages • paperback • 1986

5.0nicolecostello's review

fiction historical middle grade adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

Survival Takes a Wild Imagination by Fariha Róisín

Survival Takes a Wild Imagination
Fariha Róisín

114 pages • paperback • 2023 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Survival Takes a Wild Imagination

Fariha Róisín

114 pages • paperback • 2023

5.0nicolecostello's review

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World by Ella Frances Sanders

Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World
Ella Frances Sanders

224 pages • paperback (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World

Ella Frances Sanders

224 pages • paperback

5.0nicolecostello's review

nonfiction inspiring reflective medium-paced

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (Illustrator)

204 pages • digital • 2022 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (Illustrator)

204 pages • digital • 2022

5.0nicolecostello's review

nonfiction history nature science adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri with Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)

204 pages • hardcover • 2022 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Roman Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri with Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)

204 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0nicolecostello's review

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The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction by Atef Abu Saif

The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction
Reading the City

Atef Abu Saif with Asmaa al-Ghoul (Contributor), Mona Abu Sharekh (Contributor), Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator), Abdallah Tayeh (Contributor), Talal Abu Shawish (Contributor), Sarah Irving (Translator), Najlaa Ataallah (Contributor), Tom Aplin (Translator), Nayrouz Qarmout (Contributor), John Peate (Translator), Yusra al Khatib (Contributor), Katharine Halls (Translator), Emily Danby (Translator), Max Weiss (Translator), Ghareeb Asqalani (Contributor), Zaki al 'Ela (Contributor), Charis Bredin (Translator), Atef Abu Saif (Contributor), Adam Talib (Translator), Alice Guthrie (Translator)

141 pages • paperback • 2014 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction

Reading the City

Atef Abu Saif with Asmaa al-Ghoul (Contributor), Mona Abu Sharekh (Contributor), Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator), Abdallah Tayeh (Contributor), Talal Abu Shawish (Contributor), Sarah Irving (Translator), Najlaa Ataallah (Contributor), Tom Aplin (Translator), Nayrouz Qarmout (Contributor), John Peate (Translator), Yusra al Khatib (Contributor), Katharine Halls (Translator), Emily Danby (Translator), Max Weiss (Translator), Ghareeb Asqalani (Contributor), Zaki al 'Ela (Contributor), Charis Bredin (Translator), Atef Abu Saif (Contributor), Adam Talib (Translator), Alice Guthrie (Translator)

141 pages • paperback • 2014

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough with Cate Blanchett (Narrator), Lauren Hough (Narrator)

9 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2021 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

Lauren Hough with Cate Blanchett (Narrator), Lauren Hough (Narrator)

9 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2021

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir by Alba Donati

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir
Alba Donati

208 pages • paperback • 2022 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

Alba Donati

208 pages • paperback • 2022

5.0nicolecostello's review

nonfiction memoir travel hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit

353 pages • hardcover • 2009 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit

353 pages • hardcover • 2009

5.0nicolecostello's review

nonfiction history psychology sociology hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

The Last Day Before Exile: Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home by Selin Bucak

The Last Day Before Exile: Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home
404 Inklings #19

Selin Bucak

112 pages • paperback • 2023 (editions)

5.0nicolecostello's review

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The Last Day Before Exile: Stories of Resistance, Displacement & Finding Home

404 Inklings #19

Selin Bucak

112 pages • paperback • 2023

5.0nicolecostello's review

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Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story Beverley Naidoo with Eric Velásquez

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (Illustrator)

Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri with Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing Lauren Hough with Cate Blanchett (Narrator), Lauren Hough (Narrator)

nicolecostello's 5 starreads

Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
Beverley Naidoo with Eric Velásquez

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
Katherine Rundell with Talya Baldwin (Illustrator)

Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri with Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator), Todd Portnowitz (Translator)

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough with Cate Blanchett (Narrator), Lauren Hough (Narrator)