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2 - Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
Pam Fessler - Liveright
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The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled -- hidden away with their "shameful" disease.The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed... |
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3 - Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless... |
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4 - Children of the Land
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo - Harper
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An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man's... |
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5 - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with... |
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6 - Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine - Graywolf Press
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Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation -- Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions... |
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7 - A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany K. Barnett - Crown
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An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity - from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system."An essential book for our time . . . Brittany K. Barnett... |
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8 - Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey - Ecco
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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedyAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world... |
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9 - Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Lauren Redniss - Random House
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A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur "Genius" and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning. Oak Flat... |
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10 - We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
Kai Strittmatter - Custom House
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One of the world's most respected investigative reporters reveals how George Orwell's chilling vision of authoritarianism in 1984 has come true in modern China's high-tech surveillance state.They are always watching.For nearly twenty years, politicians from President Bill Clinton... |
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11 - Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino - Atlantic Monthly Press
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By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community -- a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state... |
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