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937 books

Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution by Elena Poniatowska

Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution

Elena Poniatowska

93 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Above the Pacific: Three Medal of Honor Fighter Aces of World War II Speak by Colin Heaton

Above the Pacific: Three Medal of Honor Fighter Aces of World War II Speak

Colin Heaton

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction history
The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton

The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

Tom Sancton

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
dark informative tense medium-paced
The Great Air Race: Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation by John Lancaster, John Lancaster

The Great Air Race: Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation

John Lancaster, John Lancaster

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction history informative inspiring medium-paced
America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy by Monika Wiesak

America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy

Monika Wiesak

306 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson by Madeleine D. Brown

Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Madeleine D. Brown

241 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
informative reflective medium-paced
LETTER FROM NEW YORK by Helene Hanff

LETTER FROM NEW YORK

Helene Hanff

178 pages • first pub 1992 (editions) user-added

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld

608 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
fiction contemporary reflective medium-paced
Hollywood Ending : Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta

Hollywood Ending : Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

Ken Auletta

480 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction true crime challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's Costly Early Daylight Battles by Marshall L. Michel III

Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's Costly Early Daylight Battles

Air Campaign

Marshall L. Michel III

96 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0komet2020's review
nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced