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1.
A Small Place

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
The author of such books as At the Bottom of the River and My Brother returns to Antigua, the ten-by-twelve mile Caribbean island where she grew up, to explore the effects of colonialism. Reprint.

2.
Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
Explains how developing a wider ecological consciousness can foster an increased understanding of both nature's generosity and the reciprocal relationship humans have with the natural world.

3.
Embers

Embers : One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese EN

Rating: 4.7     3 Votes
Description:
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on--and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction that lets the worn and tired bits drop away. It's a good way to travel; eventually I will wear away all resistance until all there is left of me is light. I can live towards that end." --Richard Wagamese, Embers In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese... continue

4.
Labyrinth of Solitude

Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Recommended: 29 Mar 2023

5.
Motherhood
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Motherhood : A Novel by Sheila Heti EN

Rating: 2.8     5 Votes
Description:
A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim. Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, frie... continue
Recommended: 13 Nov 2022

6.
Winter's Bone
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Winter's Bone by Daniel woodrell EN

Rating: 4     79 Votes
Description:
Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them. To save her family she needs to track him down but in a community riven with long-running feuds getting answers isn't easy.
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Recommended: 16 Feb 2018

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