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4 books

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford

212 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End

Alua Arthur

288 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

426 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

784 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
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