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New Titles - Professional & Technical
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Shannon Reed - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist. We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass... |
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Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
Michele Norris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audio CD
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Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.. The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging... |
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Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change
Ben Austen - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF HIGH-RISERS comes a groundbreaking and honest investigation into the crisis of the American criminal justice system-through the lens of parole. Perfect for fans of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy"Correction... |
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern... |
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Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
Benjamin Herold - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son.... |
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He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Schuyler Bailar - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover
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Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation. Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare,... |
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