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• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival

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  When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Living Thing

  the Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

  Roberts, Jason

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  The best-selling author of A Sense of the World tells the story of two scientific rivals and their mission to survey all life and the clash of ideas that had profound consequences for humanity.

• Feeding Ghosts

  a Graphic Memoir

  Hulls, Tessa, 1984-

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  Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife.

• Night Watch

  a Novel

  Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-

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  Night Watch is a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War -- and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds.

• No Right to An Honest Living

  the Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

  Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-

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  Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston -- and the United States -- from securing true equality for all.

• King

  a Life

  Eig, Jonathan

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  The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.

• Master Slave Husband Wife

  An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom

  Woo, Ilyon

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  Presents the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as "his" slave.

• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  a Sister's Search for Justice

  Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

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  A memoir decades in the making, Liliana's Invincible Summer tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously romantic young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tripas

  Poems

  Som, Brandon

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  With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

  Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

  Thrall, Nathan

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  Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse -- and his efforts to conquer them.

• Trust

  a Novel

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.

• The Netanyahus

  An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

  Cohen, Joshua, 1980-

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  A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot.

• Cuba

  An American History

  Ferrer, Ada

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  Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States -- as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period -- this is a stunning and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Palmares

  Jones, Gayl

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  Intricate and compelling, Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Covered With Night

  a Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

  Eustace, Nicole

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  A gripping account of Indigenous justice in early America, and how the aftermath of a settler’s murder of a Native American man led to the oldest continuously recognized treaty in the United States.

• Chasing Me to My Grave

  An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

  Rembert, Winfred

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  A searing first-person illustrated account of an artist’s life during the 1950s and 1960s in an unreconstructed corner of the deep South–an account of abuse, endurance, imagination, and aesthetic transformation.

• The Doctors Blackwell

  How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine

  Nimura, Janice P.

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  The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women.

• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival, and Hope in An American City

  Elliott, Andrea

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  An affecting, deeply reported account of a girl who comes of age during New York City’s homeless crisis–a portrait of resilience amid institutional failure that successfully merges literary narrative with policy analysis.

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  Pulitzer Prize 2021 winner! It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill…Read moreRead more of this annotation