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With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools-with its emphasis on great men in high places-to focus on the street, the home and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the...

2) The candy house: a novel

Author

Egan, Jennifer

Series

Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2

Language

English

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Adult Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...

3) Unsheltered

Author

Kingsolver, Barbara

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English

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A testament to the power and goodness of the human spirit, Unsheltered explores the foundations we build, crossing time and place to give us all a little more hope in those around us, and a little more faith in ourselves.

4) Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

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Levitt, Steven D

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16

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English

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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...

5) The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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Taylor, Sonya Renee

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English

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The Body Is Not an Apology. The Power of Radical Self-Love. Against a global backdrop of war, social upheaval, and personal despair, there is a growing sense of urgency to challenge the systems of oppression that dehumanize bodies and strip us of our shared humanity. Rather than feel helpless in the face of oppression, world-renowned activist, performance poet, and author Sonya Renee Taylor teaches us how to turn to the power of radical self-love...

6) Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Author

Perez, Caroline Criado

Language

English

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Adult Book, Book Club Set, eAudiobook, eBook

#1 International Bestseller
Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize

A landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperback
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy,

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7) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

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English

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

8) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Author

Douglass, Frederick

Series

Signature Classics

Language

English

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eAudiobook, eBook, Young Adult Book

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character, he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people. In this book, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying...

9) Divergent

Author

Roth, Veronica

Series

Divergent trilogy volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16

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English

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Books to Movies

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Tell me why-- (Cherry Lake Pub.)

This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.

Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergent and its sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant,

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10) I Cry

Author

Marsico, Katie

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Young children are naturally curious about themselves. Tell Me Why I Cry offers answers to their most compelling questions about those salty tears. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

11) How the world really works: the science behind how we got here and where we're going

Author

Smil, Vaclav

Language

English

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Woolf Haus Classics
African Library

"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our...

12) Twelve Years a Slave

Author

Northup, Solomon

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English

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eAudiobook, eBook, Paperback

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a...

13) Main Street

Author

Lewis, Sinclair

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English

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Anti-Racism Reads
Reading for Truth & Reconciliation

Orphaned as a teen, Carol Milford grew up in a city in Minnesota. Already a compassionate person, Carol's time studying in college and grad school exposed her to diverse, radical ideas and lifestyles, which she learned to either accept or tolerate. After college, Carol earns a position as a librarian in the state capital city, yet finds the work to be unsatisfying. This is why she agrees when her new husband, a doctor named Will, asks if they can...

14) Seven fallen feathers: racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city

Author

Talaga, Tanya

Language

English

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Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities.

15) Chrysalis: a thriller

Author

Child, Lincoln

Series

Jeremy Logan novels volume 6

Language

English

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Anti-Racism Reads
Black History Month

"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...

16) Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo"

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

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English

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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction

"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, to interview ninety-five-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nations history. Hurston was there to record Cudjos firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade...

17) Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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English

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"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert)....

18) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Author

Alexander, Michelle

Language

English

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Freedom to Read
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora

A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author

"It

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19) Pax

Author

Pennypacker, Sara

Series

Pax volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

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Audio Book, Children's Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.

20) Light at the edge of the world: a journey through the realm of vanishing cultures

Author

Davis, Wade

Language

English

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Adult Book, eBook

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