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By Luis Diaz | September 15 2020 | College & University Reads
A Memoir
978-0-525-53738-0
The New York Times BestsellerAn emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.
Hardcover
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Black Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Public Health
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978-0-593-11876-4
"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.
Hardcover
Age 12 and up
Grade 7 & Up
A novel
978-0-525-65869-6
A Burning is a novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
Hardcover
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > LGBTQIA+ Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Global Perspectives > Asian Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > LGBTQIA+ Voices & Stories
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Global Perspectives > Asian Voices & Stories
The Origins of Our Discontents
978-0-593-23025-1
Selected for common reading at:
Hardcover
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Global Perspectives > More in Global Perspectives
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > More in Race & Cultural Identity in America
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
- College & University Reads > Big Ideas
- College & University Reads > Current Events
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- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Global Perspectives > More in Global Perspectives
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- Community Reads > Social Justice > Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
978-1-101-97241-0
In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop while taking graduate studies at Yale, marrying a white man from the north and bring him home to her family, adopting two babies from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays goes beyond a narrative of black innocence and white guilt and sets out to discover a new way of telling the truth as the author has lived it.
Paperback
An Astronaut's Story of Invention
978-0-262-53964-7
The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the 30-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.
Paperback
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- All-School Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) > Innovation
- All-School Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) > Technology
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) > Innovation
- College & University Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) > Technology
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- Community Reads > Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) > More in STEAM
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A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
978-1-9848-2578-0
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity--from a gifted young lawyer whose journey marks the emergence of a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.
Hardcover
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Black Voices & Stories
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Activism
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Criminal Justice & Law
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Black Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Activism
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Criminal Justice & Law
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
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A Novel
978-0-399-59061-0
Selected for common reading at Bucknell University
Paperback
978-0-399-59268-3
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
Hardcover
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Immigrant, First-generation and Refugee Voices & Stories
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Hispanic and Latinx Voices & Stories
- All-School Reads > Social Justice > Immigration & Migration
- College & University Reads > Current Events
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Immigrant, First-generation and Refugee Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Race & Cultural Identity in America > Hispanic and Latinx Voices & Stories
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A Memoir
978-0-7352-2372-1
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral–viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.
Paperback
- All-School Reads > Inspiration > Courage
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Gender and Sexuality > Women's Voices & Stories
- College & University Reads > Inspiration > Courage
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978-0-593-10817-8
"F***ing outstanding."--Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author
Hardcover
Age 14 and up
Grade 9 & Up
- All-School Reads > Life Stories > Coming-of-Age
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- College & University Reads > Life Stories > Coming-of-Age
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- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Activism
- College & University Reads > Social Justice > Inequality
- Community Reads > Life Stories > Coming-of-Age
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