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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by Roxanna Asgarian
This 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 Bell
Darrin 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. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. And now Bell must decide whether he and his own son are ready to have "The Talk."
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
by Margo Jefferson
The 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. Gross
Full 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 Giggs
Blending 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 Rankine
A 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. Trethewey
The 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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Figuring
by Maria Popova
The Brain Pickings science writer and host of The Universe in Verse explores the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of historical figures from four centuries, from astronomer Johannes Kepler to biologist Rachel Carson.
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Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
An essayist and novelist explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies and deception does to a black body, a black family and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
by Francisco Cantú
An award-winning writer and former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who, upon joining the Border Patrol, encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
by Beth Macy
In a book that includes deeply human and unforgettable portraits of the families and first responders affected, the author takes readers into the epicenter of its America's more than 20-year struggle with opioid addiction. By the author of the national best-seller Factory Man.
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