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  • Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Somerstein, Rachel
    Rachel Somerstein

    Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

    An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything...
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  • Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Somerstein, Rachel
    Rachel Somerstein

    Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

    An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America--the cesarean section--and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything...
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  • Fifteen Cents on the Dollar by Story, Louise
    Louise Story

    Fifteen Cents on the Dollar

    A sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America's financial system through public and private actions that created today's Black-white wealth gap. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the...
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  • Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America by Hagerman, Margaret A.
    Margaret A. Hagerman

    Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America

    Provides a child's-eye perspective on how the culture wars are playing out in our nation's schoolsKids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, which version of history they should...
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  • The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public by Thorson, Emily
    Emily Thorson

    The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

    In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish,...
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  • The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public by Thorson, Emily
    Emily Thorson

    The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public

    In The Invented State, Emily Thorson argues that a problematic and understudied aspect of political misinformation reflects widespread public misperception about what the government does. Because much of public policy is invisible to the public, there is fertile ground for false beliefs to flourish,...
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  • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Vanatta, Sean H.
    Sean H. Vanatta

    Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

    American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation...
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  • Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control by Vanatta, Sean H.
    Sean H. Vanatta

    Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

    American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation...
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  • Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition by Slater, Jerome
    Jerome Slater

    Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition

    The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but throughout the world. In the United States...
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  • Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition by Slater, Jerome
    Jerome Slater

    Mythologies Without End: The Us, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 1st Edition

    The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but throughout the world. In the United States...
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  • Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam by Cherribi, Sam
    Sam Cherribi

    Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam

    Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public. In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy,...
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  • Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam by Cherribi, Sam
    Sam Cherribi

    Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam

    Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public. In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy,...
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  • The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition: An Unnatural History by Kolbert, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Kolbert

    The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition: An Unnatural History

    The tenth-anniversary edition of the multiaward-winning book The Sixth Extinction features a new epilogue. Elizabeth Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have...
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  • Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Wellington, Rebecca
    Rebecca Wellington

    Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption

    Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely--and deeply researched--account amplifies previously...
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  • Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption by Wellington, Rebecca
    Rebecca Wellington

    Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption

    Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely--and deeply researched--account amplifies previously...
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  • Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Ferrante, Louis
    Louis Ferrante

    Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

    The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories...
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  • The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks by Tassier, Troy
    Troy Tassier

    The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks

    When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the...
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  • The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks by Tassier, Troy
    Troy Tassier

    The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us During Outbreaks

    When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the...
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  • Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Ferrante, Louis
    Louis Ferrante

    Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

    The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories...
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  • American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Keeler, Kasey R.
    Kasey R. Keeler

    American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota

    Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today's suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem...
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  • American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Keeler, Kasey R.
    Kasey R. Keeler

    American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota

    Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives are even more rare. Today's suburban Natives, the fastest-growing American Indian demographic, highlight the tensions within federal policies working in tandem...
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  • Dr. Mary's Monkey Lib/E: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked t by Haslam, Edward T.
    Edward T. Haslam

    Dr. Mary's Monkey Lib/E: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked t

    Author: Edward T. HaslamISBN-10: 820007398XISBN-13: 9798200073986Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2012Format: CD
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  • Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down by DeYoung, Bill
    Bill DeYoung

    Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down

    On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise...
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  • American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s by Maharidge, Dale
    Dale Maharidge

    American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s

    Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this--and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the...
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  • American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s by Maharidge, Dale
    Dale Maharidge

    American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s

    Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this--and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the...
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  • An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Colby, Robert K. D.
    Robert K. D. Colby

    An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

    The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of...
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  • Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Perlin, Ross
    Ross Perlin

    Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

    Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most...
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  • Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Perlin, Ross
    Ross Perlin

    Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

    Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most...
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  • An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South by Colby, Robert K. D.
    Robert K. D. Colby

    An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

    The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of...
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  • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Shew, Ashley
    Ashley Shew

    Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't...
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  • The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma by Chemaly, Soraya
    Soraya Chemaly

    The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma

    The author of the "must read" (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology.We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her...
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  • Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America by Hagerman, Margaret A.
    Margaret A. Hagerman

    Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America

    Provides a child's-eye perspective on how the culture wars are playing out in our nation's schoolsKids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, which version of history they should...
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  • Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite by Mendelson, Cheryl
    Cheryl Mendelson

    Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite

    From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the story of our wedding vows--what they mean and why they still matter.In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it's a surprise...
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  • On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach by Coleman, Doriane Lambelet
    Doriane Lambelet Coleman

    On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

    An eye-opening account of what the left and right get wrong about sex and gender--and how we can get them right for everyone.On Sex and Gender focuses on three sequential and consequential questions: What is sex as opposed to gender? How does sex matter...
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  • Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays by Epstein, Joseph
    Joseph Epstein

    Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

    A collection of personal essays from America's most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America's greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead...
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  • The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster K by Matsuura, Thersa
    Thersa Matsuura

    The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster K

    Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan.Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a...
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  • Affirmations for Queer People: 100+ Positive Messages to Affirm, Empower, and Inspire by Vosseteig, Jess
    Jess Vosseteig

    Affirmations for Queer People: 100+ Positive Messages to Affirm, Empower, and Inspire

    Celebrate your resilience and bravery in the face of discrimination and empower yourself and your community with these 100+ affirmations for queer people that celebrate being LGBTQIA+.Queer people are essential members of society--trailblazing for positive change and building up a stronger and more vibrant...
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  • The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now by Sellers, Bakari
    Bakari Sellers

    The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

    The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN,...
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  • Mythologies Lib/E: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation by Barthes, Roland
    Roland Barthes

    Mythologies Lib/E: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

    Author: Roland BarthesISBN-10: 8200083438ISBN-13: 9798200083435Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Format: CD
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  • Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Hochschild, Adam
    Adam Hochschild

    Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    Author: Adam HochschildISBN-10: 1665240695ISBN-13: 9781665240697Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2018Format: CD
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  • Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks by Marshall, David Weston
    David Weston Marshall

    Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks

    Author: David Weston MarshallISBN-10: 1665135212ISBN-13: 9781665135214Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Format: MP3 CD
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  • Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good by Napoleoni, Loretta
    Loretta Napoleoni

    Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good

    The respected Italian economist and journalist offers a bold and provocative argument that the speed of technological transformation is threatening our future At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, Wall...
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  • Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good by Napoleoni, Loretta
    Loretta Napoleoni

    Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good

    The respected Italian economist and journalist offers a bold and provocative argument that the speed of technological transformation is threatening our future At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, Wall...
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  • They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Hixenbaugh, Mike
    Mike Hixenbaugh

    They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

    The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America--from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize...
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  • Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by Grisham, John
    John Grisham

    Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

    Author: John Grisham, Jim McCloskeyISBN-10: 0593866797ISBN-13: 9780593866795Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs
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  • What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms by Metzl, Jonathan M.
    Jonathan M. Metzl

    What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

    A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in AmericaDr. Jonathan M. Metzl, long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But...
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  • The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't by Conn, Steven
    Steven Conn

    The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't

    A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis. It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it...
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  • Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Joyce, Patrick
    Patrick Joyce

    Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

    A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time."What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the...
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  • Made in Asian America: A History for Young People by Lee, Erika
    Erika Lee

    Made in Asian America: A History for Young People

    From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American.Asian American...
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  • The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now by Sellers, Bakari
    Bakari Sellers

    The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now

    The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN,...
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