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A Young People's History of the United States
Rebecca Stefoff, Howard Zinn
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany, علاء الأسواني, Humphrey T. Davies
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007
The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
Cylin Busby, John Busby
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko
Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes, Ruth Harwood Cline
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984