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Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy

4.5

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Share this informative, health-filled, & inspiring book with every woman in your life!
Thanks to Dr. Sharon Malone for sharing her expertise (both professional & personal)!

The Displacements

Bruce Holsinger

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice

Eddie Ahn

3.5

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Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account

Ernesto Saade

4.0

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The Stars Too Fondly

Emily Hamilton

4.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

Maurice Vellekoop

4.5

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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This outrageous satire of a small southern town in Georgia is an homage to books and the freedom to read. Given the uptick in book banning across the country I am hopeful, that once again, the power of words - in a book - will create moments of conversation and help to change minds and hearts.

Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family

Jordan Mechner

4.0

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Lunar New Year Love Story

Gene Luen Yang

4.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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