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Make Your Own Sunshine: Inspiring Stories of People Who Find Light in Dark Times
Janice Dean - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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These are the kinds of stories we need right now.While the news is filled with villains and villainy, we do see a few famous heroes now again. But what about the everyday heroes? The people going out of their way bring a little love into someone else's life? They deserve a time in the spotlight... |
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Dear White Women: Let's Get
Sara Blanchard - The Collective Book Studio
Format: Paperback
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If you move through daily life without a lot of thought as to how privilege or race impacts every decision that you make, then the concept of discussing race might be a new one, or an uncomfortable one. We&;re living in a society that is fundamentally based on systems of advantages... |
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The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
Alice L. George
Format: Hardcover
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He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator - and returned to space at the age of seventy-seven.... |
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We Need to Talk About Antisemitism
Rabbi Diana Fersko - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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A millennial rabbi explores why we're reluctant to discuss antisemitism - and empowers us to fight against it Antisemitism is on the rise in America, in cities and rural areas, in red states and blue states, and in guises both subtle and terrifyingly overt. Rabbi Diana Fersko is used... |
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Autopia: The Future of Cars
Jon Bentley
Format: Paperback
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Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried around in tiny electric bubble-cars?... |
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Mark W. Moffett - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists... |
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Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe
Ella Frances Sanders - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in TranslationHave you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars,... |
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Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America's Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
Heather McTeer Toney - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver, and a defining dynamic for the foreseeable future. Yet, in Black communities, climate change is seen as less urgent when compared to other... |
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My Body
Emily Ratajkowski - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body... |
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Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature
Jean-Christophe Cloutier - Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
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Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts -- including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth -- to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe... |
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