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Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca CarrollA stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.
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by Rob KennerThe founding editor of Vibe presents an in-depth portrait of the hip-hop mogul, artist and activist to share insights into his motivational lyrics, visionary business savvy and tragic murder in a neighborhood he was trying to rebuild.
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The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry TurkleThe MIT psychologist and best-selling author of Reclaiming Conversation illuminates humanity’s search for authentic connection in the face of today’s unprecedented challenges, explaining how empathy shaped her own complicated coming-of-age and survival experiences.
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Spilt Milk: Memoirsby Courtney ZoffnessIn her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past―biologically, culturally, spiritually―and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability.
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia SweigThe award-winning author of Inside the Cuban Revolution assesses the less-recognized political partnership between First Lady Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson and the 36th president, discussing her policy initiatives, environmental advocacy and encouragement of women in the workplace. This title is also available in eBook
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House Lessons: Renovating a Life by Erica BauermeisterA bestselling author, in this enthralling memoir-in-essays, shares her experiences renovating a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend, Washington and takes us on a journey to discover the ways our spaces subliminally affect us.
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by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Tracing the long history of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work for gender equality and a “more perfect union.” This title is also available in eBook
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Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance by Mallory WeggemannThe Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner and NBC Sports commentator shares the lessons she learned about redefining limitations and realizing that healing is not chronological after a routine medical procedure left her paralyzed from the waist down.
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce LevineThe best-selling author of Confederate Emancipation presents a portrait of the 19th-century statesman that includes discussions of Stevens’s decades-long fight against slavery, key role in the Union war effort and postwar legislation for American racial justice.
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