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Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood

DaMaris B. Hill - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A Netgalley "Must-Read Books by Black Authors in 2022". From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood.. In Breath...
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The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

LUKE MOGELSON - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home...
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Trash: A Poor White Journey

Cedar Monroe - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

Human beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs to end. Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe writes indelibly about and for poor...
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A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America

Scott W. Atlas M.D. - Bombardier Books
Format: Hardcover

As seen onTucker Carlson! What really happened behind the scenes at the Trump White House during the COVID pandemicWhen Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos,...
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Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

Jonathan M. Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world.This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro. Until now, biographers have treated Castro's life like prosecutors, scouring...
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Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

Gillian Thomas - St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary...
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...
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The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Jason Sokol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A vivid portrait of how Americans grappled with King's death and legacy in the days, weeks, and months after his assassinationOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. At the time of his murder, King was a polarizing...
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

NELSON MANDELA - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long...
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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South

Karen L. Cox - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery - known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat...
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