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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Daniel Stone’s American Poison

From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.   1 Alice Hamilton in 1915. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919 For as long as

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Daniel Stone’s American Poison

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unCommon Authors, an Author Video Series: ADVOCATE by Eddie Ahn

PRH Education/Common Reads presents: unCommon Authors unCommon Authors is a monthly video series highlighting exceptional and unique authors talking about their books.   Advocate is a moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and

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unCommon Authors, an Author Video Series: ADVOCATE by Eddie Ahn

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Beth Macy’s <i>Paper Girl</i>
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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Beth Macy’s Paper Girl

From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding America’s social fabric, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometown.   It was June 2023, and Silas James had just graduated from Urbana High School, forty-one years after I wore that

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Beth Macy’s Paper Girl

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