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History and Current Events September 2024 |
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| Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen AtlantaBeauty industry insider Ellen Atlanta's impassioned debut examines the impact of toxic beauty culture practices, offering a "thoughtful consideration of physical female beauty and how it's dictated and judged" (Booklist). Further reading: Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls -- and How We Can Take It Back by Kara Alaimo. |
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| The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World by Daisy DunnClassicist Daisy Dunn's (The Shadow of Vesuvius) accessible, three-millennia spanning history highlights the roles and experiences of women in ancient civilizations. Try this next: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez. |
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| A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession... by Kim Mager with Lisa PulitzerAshland, Ohio detective Kim Mager's disturbing account of her encounters with serial killer Shawn Grate, whom she interrogated following his 2016 arrest, "hums with the intensity of a real-life Silence of the Lambs" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling and Justice in a Small Town by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. |
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The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson
Recounting one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history—the 1955 murder and torture of Emmett Till, a Black boy barely in his teens, in barn in Money, Mississippi, this story about property, money, power and white supremacy is still ongoing and implicates all of us. Maps.
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Focus on: Hispanic Heritage Month
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| You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa ArceJournalist Julissa Arce candidly chronicles her experiences as an undocumented Mexican immigrant and how she learned to reject assimilation into white American culture in this study that "challenges the idea of American exceptionalism with equal parts passion, fury, intimacy, and ignored history" (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: The Other: How to Own Your Power at Work as a Woman of Color by Daniela Pierre-Bravo. |
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| The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJournalist and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipient Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's National Book Award finalist offers impassioned reportage on undocumented people living in the United States, featuring compelling and empathetic profiles of immigrants trying to get by in a country that often dehumanizes them. Further reading: Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva. |
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| Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" by Héctor TobarWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, this impassioned essay collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Héctor Tobar explores the history and evolution of Latine identity in the United States. Further reading: Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books! |
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