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The Pride Guide
Langford, Jo
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Sex education materials meant to explain important basics to kids are too-often not written with an empathic understanding of what those basics are. This is particularly obvious regarding books that include LGBTQ identities. Even when they do hit the mark, many have a limited scope and don’t... |
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How I Resist
Johnson, Maureen
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This audiobook presents an all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA author Maureen Johnson.Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard—but with much... |
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Futureface
Alex Wagner
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An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people?"A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are . . . and the values and ideals... |
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The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times Bestseller A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent... |
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I Have the Right To
Chessy Prout
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"A bold, new voice." —People "A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation." —Vice A young survivor tells her searing, visceral story of sexual assault, justice, and healing in this gutwrenching memoir.The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen... |
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No Refuge for Women
Maria von Welser
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An exposé of the hidden suffering that over half of Syria's refugees endure and the conflicts they continue to flee.No refuge: this is the harsh reality encountered by the women and children who flee Syria in search of safety. When boatloads of Syrian refugees began arriving on European... |
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The Far Away Brothers
Lauren Markham
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins... |
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" you're="" in="" the="" wrong="" bathroom!""="
Laura Erickson-Schroth
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Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issuesFrom Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie ("the pregnant man") and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical,... |
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Ali Noorani
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Making America a welcome place for everyone, from long-established citizens to immigrants who have just arrived.This compelling approach to the immigration debate takes the reader behind the blaring headlines and into communities grappling with the reality of new immigrants and the changing... |
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Tell Me How It Ends
Valeria Luiselli
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"Part treatise, part memoir, part call to action, Tell Me How It Ends inspires not through a stiff stance of authority, but with the curiosity and humility Luiselli has long since established." —Annalia Luna, Brazos Bookstore"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating... |
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