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OverDrive Audiobooks February 2018
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"Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public." -- Michael Eric Dyson
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February is Black History Month
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Tears We Cannot Stop : a Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
A call for change in the United States argues that racial progress can only be achieved after facing difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, and discounted.
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Negroland : a Memoir
by Margo Jefferson
A highly personal meditation on race, sex and American culture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic traces her upbringing and education in upper-class African-American circles against a backdrop of the Civil Rights era and its contradictory aftermath.
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping.
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In the Midst of Winter : a Novel
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world. By the best-selling author of The House of the Spirits.
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Beauty and the Clockwork Beast
by Nancy Campbell Allen
Arriving at Blackwell Manor to care for sick cousin, Lucy, a well-respected botanist, is plunged into a mystery when she meets the owner, Miles, who doesn't take kindly to visitors and is plagued by death, and soon discovers that her cousin's mysterious illness is linked to this man she is starting to love.
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What We Become : a Novel
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Describes the powerful and ongoing secret love affair between Mecha, a gorgeous high-society woman, and Max, a masterful and elegant thief who has both Spanish spies and the KGB on his trail during their nearly 40 year relationship.
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The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people. By the author of Believers and Harmony of the World.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine : a Novel
by Gail Honeyman
A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
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Call Me By Your Name
by André Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime.
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