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In this hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model…
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… the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. … So You Want to Talk About Race …
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Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a frank, funny, and personal tour of…
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… preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives … with Indians, anyway. … Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask …
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, how these reactions maintain racial inequality, and…
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… reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, how these reactions maintain … White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism …
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A candid, wry, amusing collection of essays on women getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests---and life itself.
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… menopause, empty nests---and life itself. … I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman …
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This is a graphic memoir by a New Yorker cartoonist, both hilarious and horrifying, in which she uses cartoons, hand-written text, and photographs to recount the story of her parents' last…
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… her difficult relationship with them. … Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? …
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In a series of essays, women writers of all ages discuss the impact of time and illness on their bodies and the process of taking control of their body image.
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… of their body image. … For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance …
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A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30…
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… A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific … at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago. … Remarkably …
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A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year…
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… A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the … 2021-22 UW-Madison Go Big Read selection. For information about Madison Public Library book discussions and more, see …
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left…
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… books have been banned--and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter …
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Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask.…
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… ever to resist her friend's siren song. A sparkling novel about the complexities of female relationships, the pitfalls … of the human heart, Big Summer is a witty, moving story about family, friendship, and figuring out what matters most. …
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A luminous coming-of-age novel about a young female scientist who must recalibrate her life when her academic career goes off track. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays…
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… A luminous coming-of-age novel about a young female scientist who must recalibrate her life …
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An unforgettable story about one young Black girl's attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself, inspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United…
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… An unforgettable story about one young Black girl's attempt to find a place where …
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A young girl is killed in a car accident following Carmen's wedding. For 25 years after Carmen, her family and friends lives head in a variety of trajectories-- yet with each person carrying an…
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… yet with each person carrying an emotional burden about that night. … Carry the One …
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has…
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… Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town …
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Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients.
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… that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the …
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Written in 1949, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future, where Big Brother is always watching. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that…
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… Written in 1949, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future, where Big Brother is always watching. And …
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Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother, Mina, dead under suspicious…
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… immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother. … The Last Story of Mina Lee …
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A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video…
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… A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother …
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A troubled teenaged girl, who is helping an old woman organize her house, learns about the woman's early life as an Irish immigrant in New York City and in Minnesota, where she was sent at the age of…
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… who is helping an old woman organize her house, learns about the woman's early life as an Irish immigrant in New …
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Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the…
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… whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of …
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Your first year teaching at a poor urban school can really be tough. Esme, however, has energy, wit, big ideas and a touch of cynicism. Written in diary form, we read about her successes and…
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… and a touch of cynicism. Written in diary form, we read about her successes and failures as a teacher as she …
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Narratives from the past, present, and future intertwine in this soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.
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… past, present, and future intertwine in this soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, …
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"A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting…
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… and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their …
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An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden…
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… An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death …
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In Japan, a teenage girl is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with letters in Japanese and French, wash ashore in a metal…
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… is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with …
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