Amanda

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Amanda

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Amanda’s favorite books

Toxic Parents by Susan Forward

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Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes

Foundling by D.M. Cornish

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A Painted House by John Grisham

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Amanda is Currently Reading

Big Dumb Eyes: St...

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Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind

by Nate Bargatze

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Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures

by David Yarrow

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Emma

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by Jane Austen

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— Dec 31, 2021 03:37PM

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Amanda’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)

How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials) by Ibram X. Kendi

in 2015, Black bodies accounted for at least 26 percent of those killed by police, declining slightly to 24 percent in 2016, 22 percent in 2017, and 21 percent in 2018, according to The Washington Post. Unarmed Black bodies—which apparently ...more

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