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WESTTA ESJ Lending Library
The following books are available to any member! Please contact president@western.mbteach.org to indicate your interest.
Tara Westover
educated (2018)
One woman's story of educating herself following a childhood of isolation from mainstream society in the mountains of Idaho.
Wab Kinew
The Reason You Walk (2015)
Kinew revisits his childhood and connects to his father's traumatic experience in residential school.
Nadia Murad
The Last Girl (2017)
A harrowing memoir of Nadia's Yazidi experience in northern Iraq.
Naoki Higashida
The Reason I Jump (2007)
The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with Autism.
Ruta Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray (2011) & Salt to the Sea (2016)
Two historical fiction novels detailing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States in the 1940s and the terrible genocide that occurred.
Deborah Ellis
The Breadwinner Trilogy (2009) & My Name is Parvana (2015)
Novels set in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the time of the Taliban and the following war. Parvana's story continues in Post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Kim Thúy
Ru (2009)
The story of a Vietnamese family who leave a Malaysian refugee camp to find refuge in Québec.