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OverDrive Audiobooks May 2019
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"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month
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Notorious RBG : the Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon
In a lively illustrated biography of the feminist icon and legal pioneer, readers can get to know the Supreme Court Justice and fierce Jewish grandmother, who has changed the world despite our struggle with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, standing as a testament to what a little chutzpah can do.
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Stuffed : Adventures of a Restaurant Family
by Patricia Volk
The journalist-author chronicles her restaurant family's arrival in America from Austria at the turn of the century and their subsequent struggle to survive and prosper in a poignant but humorous celebration of family life and history.
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Denial : Holocaust History on Trial
by Deborah E Lipstadt
A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history.
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Red and Me : My coach, My Lifelong Friend
by Bill Russell
An uplifting tribute to Red Auerbach by an NBA great describes how their collaborative efforts transcended race and cultural barriers to help establish the Boston Celtics' impressive record, in an account that covers such topics as their unique professional chemistry, their enduring friendship and Auerbach's death in 2006.
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
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Shelter
by Jung Yun
Kyung Cho, struggling to make ends meet for his family, must grapple with his increasing anger when a tragedy forces his wealthy and estranged parents to move in with him.
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Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
On a summer vacation in the Singapore home of a man she hopes to marry, Chinese-American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes its member's relationship with an American girl.
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All Over Creation
by Ruth L. Ozeki
Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Japanese-American Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town. By the author of My Year of Meats.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
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