Amanda

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Amanda

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Amanda’s favorite books

Toxic Parents by Susan Forward

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas by Russell Hoban

Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes

Foundling by D.M. Cornish

A Painted House by John Grisham

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

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Amanda’s Bookshelves

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Amanda is Currently Reading

The Christmas Tree

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The Christmas Tree

by Julie Salamon (Goodreads Author)

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2025 Magnificat Advent Companion

by Magnificat

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

by David Yarrow

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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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