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Drunk In Love by Cole Hart, Tiece
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow can one song be so strong and intoxicating that it nearly makes a woman leave her husband for another man? Olivia is a sexy, independent, business woman who’s been married to Mark for six years. He is everything that Olivia wants in a husband, except for the fact that he’s a quick pumper and extremely boring in bed... -
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Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House... -
![Black Pearl the Prequel by Tiffany Patterson]()
Black Pearl the Prequel by Tiffany Patterson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat will it take to rebuild my self-esteem?When I walked in on my boyfriend in bed with another woman, I couldn't believe my eyes. To make matters worse, his lack of remorse was like another slap to the face. Years of his verbal put-downs and hurtful comments about my weight all but thoroughly destroyed my self-confidence.But finally, I was done... -
![Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna de Sousa-García]()
Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna de Sousa-García
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUna novela que nos llama a no apartar la mirada del horror que viven quienes se ven obligados a emigrar.Mientras su mundo se cae a pedazos, la narradora de Atrás queda la tierra conecta una serie de memorias, palabras e imágenes, para escribir una conmovedora novela de no ficción sobre el dolor que provocan el despojo y la violencia... -
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![The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby, Varnette Hon Eywood]()
The Meanest Thing To Say by Bill Cosby, Varnette Hon Eywood
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis easy-to-read story about peer pressure by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby is now a Scholastic Reader!Michael Reilly has introduced a new game to Little Bill and his friends. You get twelve chances to say something mean to another kid--and whoever comes up with the biggest insult is the winner... -
![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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![Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde]()
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it... -
![Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman]()
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity... -
![Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell]()
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they shared a subculture in the South...Categorized as:
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![Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen]()
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society? This...Categorized as:
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![White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao]()
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy... -
![Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks]()
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Sisters of the Yam , bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism...Categorized as:
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![Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum]()
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups...Categorized as:
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![Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates]()
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back...Categorized as:
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![Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy]()
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury...Categorized as:
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![Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa]()
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation... -
![Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande, Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg]()
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande, Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction... -
![Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta]()
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?Sand Talk provides a template for living...Categorized as:
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![They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta]()
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this searing, brave memoir...Categorized as:
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![Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay]()
Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. „Ein beeindruckendes Buch, poetisch und politisch zugleich.“ Margarete StokowskiDieses Buch folgt einer Sehnsucht: nach einer Sprache, die Menschen nicht auf Kategorien reduziert. Nach einem Sprechen, das sie in ihrem Facettenreichtum existieren lässt...Categorized as:
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![Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt]()
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice.We do not have to be racist to be biased. With a perspective that is scientific, investigative, and personal, Jennifer L...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang]()
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy amid rapid technological change and automation... -
![Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche]()
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape... -
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![How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi]()
How to Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistThe tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: How do we talk to our children about it? How do we raise our children to avoid... -
![Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Tunde Oyeneyin]()
Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Tunde Oyeneyin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, comes an empowering, inspiring book that shows how she transformed grief, setbacks, and flaws into growth, self-confidence, and triumph—for fans of Shonda Rhimes, Brene Brown, and Glennon Doyle... -
![Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks]()
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race.Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance... -
![Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
![Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love]()
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast : A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false...Categorized as:
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![You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke]()
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox, Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, and more...Categorized as:
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