|
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
|
|
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
|
|
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
|
|
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Jonathan Kozol
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A searing, eye-opening expos of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by Jonathan Kozol, the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age. Traveling the most blighted neighborhoods of our country, Kozol discovers a separate and |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
|
|
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN""You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath - IVP Books
Format: Paperback
|
|
From time to time prophetic Christian voices rise to challenge our nation’s "original sin." In the twentieth century, compelled by the Spirit of God and a yearning for freedom, the African American church took the lead in heralding the effort. Like almost no other movement... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
March: Book Three
Nate Powell - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Print book
|
|
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
Mark Engler - Nation Books
Format: Print book
|
|
There is a craft to uprising - and this craft can change the worldFrom protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
