White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg
A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.
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BookBeetle rated Deep Work: 4 stars
BookBeetle rated The Color Purple: 4 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Celie, arm, zwart en geminacht, wordt uitgehuwelijkt aan een oudere man die haar misbruikt. Het leven is niet gemakkelijk voor …
BookBeetle rated The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: 5 stars
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia -- bk. 2)
They open a door and enter a world.
NARNIA... the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only …
BookBeetle rated Holidays on Ice: 5 stars
BookBeetle rated L'autobiographie de Malcolm X: 5 stars
L'autobiographie de Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers, Alex Haley
Paru en 1965 à la suite d'une collaboration entre Malcolm X et Alex Haley, "l'autobiographie de Malcolm X" retrace la …
BookBeetle rated The spiral staircase: 5 stars
The spiral staircase by Karen Armstrong
The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and …
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …
BookBeetle rated Under the Banner of Heaven: 5 stars
BookBeetle rated Spillover: 5 stars
Spillover by David Quammen
This work examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where …
BookBeetle rated The Great Influenza: 5 stars
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with …
BookBeetle rated The Professor and the Madman: 5 stars
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the …
BookBeetle rated Little Fires Everywhere: 5 stars
Celeste Ng: Little Fires Everywhere (2020, Penguin Publishing Group)
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, …
BookBeetle rated I know why the caged bird sings: 5 stars
I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live …
