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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Tuchman, Barbara W.
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Until I Find You by Rachel Nolan Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
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Nolan, Rachel
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I Am on the Hit List by Rollo Romig I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
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Romig, Rollo
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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Nathans, Benjamin
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I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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Sante, Lucy
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Fi by Alexandra Fuller Fi: A Memoir of My Son
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Fuller, Alexandra
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Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
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The World She Edited by Amy Reading The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
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John Lewis by David Greenberg John Lewis: A Life
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Greenberg, David
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Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Plantation Goods by Seth Rockman Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Thrall, Nathan
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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Jacqueline A. Jones No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Jones, Jacqueline A.
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Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson R. Cowie Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Cowie, Jefferson R.
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His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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Samuels, Robert
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Stay True by Hua Hsu Stay True
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The Family Roe by Joshua Prager The Family Roe: An American Story Prager, Joshua *
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Home, Land, Security by Carla Power Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back From Extremism Power, Carla *
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Pessoa by Richard Zenith Pessoa: A Biography Zenith, Richard
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Until Justice Be Done by Kate Masur Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Masur, Kate
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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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Hong, Cathy Park
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Stranger in the Shogun's City by Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
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Red Comet by Heather Clark Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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Clark, Heather
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The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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Payne, Les
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The Deviant's War by Eric Cervini The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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Franchise by Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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Taylor, Keeanga
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Solitary by Albert Woodfox Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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Woodfox, Albert
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Elderhood by Louise Aronson Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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The Undying by Anne Boyer The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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