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Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun LiYiyun Li had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide. Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words. This is a book for her sons, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li's indomitable spirit.
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah AbdelmoumenReflecting on the complex friendship between James Baldwin and William Styron, Mélikah Abdelmoumen examines issues of identity, race, cultural appropriation, and censorship, drawing parallels to contemporary debates while advocating for meaningful dialogue and understanding amidst polarized discussions.
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Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily NussbaumFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer this history of reality television focuses on its origins as told through the voices of those who built it as well as the consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna AsgarianThis shocking expose of the foster care and adoption systems that continue to fail America's most vulnerable children recounts the murder-suicide of a white married couple and their six Black children, revealing, a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored with fateful consequences.
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The Talk by Darrin BellDarrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examines how "The Talk" shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood.
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonThe award-winning critic and memoirist has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars, and she brings these figures to life in a new memoir.
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. GrossFull of wit and wonder, this scientific journey to the center of the new female body uses modern tools and fresh perspectives to see the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction within a new biology of change and resilience.
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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeIn Seek You, Radtke looks at the very real current crisis of loneliness through the lenses of gender, violence, technology, and art. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to Instagram to Harry Harlow's experiments in which infant monkeys were given inanimate surrogate mothers, Radtke uncovers all she can about how we engage with friends, family, and strangers alike, and what happens--to us and to them--when we disengage.
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsBlending together natural history, philosophy, and science, this stunning meditation on the extraordinary lives of whales takes readers on an exploration of the natural world to reveal what whales can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship to other species.
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Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia RankineA collection of essays, poems, and images examine the power of whiteness in everyday interactions and urges readers to begin the conversation and discover what it takes to breach the silence and violence
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha D. TretheweyThe former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard shares a chillingly personal memoir about the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather.
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