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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Hannah Pick-Goslar

312 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

5.0aprilbethp's review
nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Anne Frank

352 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

5.0aprilbethp's review
nonfiction classics history memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

220 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0aprilbethp's review
fiction contemporary young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox

Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

Albert Woodfox

530 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0aprilbethp's review
nonfiction memoir politics emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

Gilbert King

430 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0aprilbethp's review
nonfiction crime history true crime dark slow-paced
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

434 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

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nonfiction biography history true crime challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Contact by Carl Sagan

Contact

Carl Sagan

435 pages • first pub 1985 (editions) user-added

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fiction science fiction adventurous inspiring reflective slow-paced
A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross

A Fire Endless

Elements of Cadence #2

Rebecca Ross

512 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

A River Enchanted

Elements of Cadence #1

Rebecca Ross

487 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0aprilbethp's review
fiction fantasy romance adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced