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• A People's History of the United States

  Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010,

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  Explores American history under the thesis that most historians have favored those in power, leaving another story untold. Zinn discusses such topics as Native American views of Columbus and the socialist and anarchist opposition to World War I in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E

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  Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alexander Hamilton

  Chernow, Ron

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  Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

• Detained

  Esperanza, D., 2005-

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  D was left on his own in a small town in Honduras. He quickly realized he simply could not make enough money to survive, so he made the difficult decision to head north with his cousins and hopefully reunite with his parents in El Norte. Amidst the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jungle

  Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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  A dramatic and deeply moving story that exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Four Mothers

  An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

  Leonard, Abigail (Journalist),

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  Interweaves the stories of four mothers from around the globe with a critically researched exploration of how parental support programs evolved in each country—and why some provide more help than others. As nations around the world debate programs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  Nine strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. A sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost and the Found

  a True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances

  Fagan, Kevin,

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  An empathetic exploration of homelessness in San Francisco through the stories of Rita and Tyson, two individuals battling addiction and striving to escape their circumstances, as well as a commentary on the broader societal issues of housing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dispossessed

  a Novel

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  A brilliant physicist is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.

• Democracy in Retrograde

  How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

  Sage, Sami,

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  At this fragile moment in history, Emily Amick, lawyer and former counsel to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, alongside New York Times bestselling author and Betches Media cofounder Sami Sage, want to reframe civic engagement as a form of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit,

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  The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults; it's everything: their…Read moreRead more of this annotation