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An Incomplete List of Names: Poems

Michael Torres
Format: Paperback

Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others' perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this collection...
 
 
Breaking It Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority

Nicole Hodges Persley · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A practical guide that shows BIPOC actors how to break down the audition process rather than being broken down by the entertainment industry and its practices of exclusion and bias. Working in an environment that often stereotypes or attempts to "universalize" experiences, it's...
 
 
Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum

Temple Grandin · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum.International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum....
 
 
Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution

Julia Alvarez · Tin House Books
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

"To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other." -- from the introduction by Julia AlvarezWith a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted...
 
 
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

Adam Kirsch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review)...
 
 
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Blain · ‎Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

"We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free." - Fannie Lou HamerA blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice....
 
 
White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing

Jennifer De Leon
Format: Paperback

Sometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, "What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child....

 
 
When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky

Margaret Verble · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning...
 
 
Disability Visibility

Alice Wong · ‎Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts...
 
 
As the Wicked Watch: The First Jordan Manning Novel

Tamron Hall · ‎William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning journalist Tamron Hall, in which a reporter unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two black girls, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago.When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take...
 
 
Read This to Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More

Blair Imani · ‎Ten Speed Press
Pages: Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192
Format: Paperback‏

We live in a time where it has never been more important to be knowledgeable about a host of social issues, and to be confident and appropriate in how to talk about them. What's the best way to ask someone what their pronouns are? How do you talk about racism with someone who doesn't...
 
 
Blindsided

Trice Hickman · ‎Dafina
Format: Paperback

Formerly single, D.C. businesswoman Bernadette Gibson is amazed at what a difference a year makes. Now in a committed relationship with a man who cherishes her, the practical fifty-something is thrilled with the laid-back peace and promise of her new southern small-town life. But when she discovers...
 
 
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

Elsa Sjunneson · ‎Tiller Press
Format: Hardcover

As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness - much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough...
 
 
Her Name Is Knight

Yasmin Angoe · ‎Thomas & Mercer
Pages: Paperback‏‎431
Format: Paperback‏

Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances.But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience...
 
 
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds

Huma Abedin · ‎Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advocates who split their time between Saudi Arabia, the UK, and the United States, Abedin grew up in many worlds. Both/And grapples with family, legacy, identity, faith, marriage, and motherhood with wisdom and sophistication. Abedin...
 
 
All Her Little Secrets: A Novel

Wanda M. Morris · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space." - Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling...
 
 
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome

Ariel Henley
Format: Hardcover

At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures....
 
 
Destroyer of Light

Jennifer Marie Brissett · Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. In the three habitable areas of the planet--Day, Dusk, and Night--the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably bind three stories:*A violent...
 
 
Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse

Melissa Lozada-Oliva · ‎Astra House
Format: Hardcover

Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is an absurd yet heartfelt examination of celebrity worship. A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The séance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek...
 
 
Be the Brave One: Living Your Spiritual Values Out Loud and Other Life Lessons

Ann Kansfield · ‎ Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

On September 11, 2001, Ann Kansfield, a successful Wall Street broker who had spent years laying a path of achievements, stood on the doorstep of profound change. The city she loved was in turmoil, and a calling to help others was emerging from deep within her. Part memoir and part spiritual...