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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

This mesmerizing history of stargazing looks both back into the past and forward. An excellent recommendation for thoughtful and curious readers.

How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

Essential reading, given the current climate of misinformation around immigration.
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Mickey and the Teamsters: A Fight for Fair Unions at Disney

This timely, well-researched, well-reported volume explores what happens when a union becomes undemocratic. Good for libraries with strong economic or labor collections. Will appeal to readers interested in union politics, Disney history, or nonfiction books that take a deep dive into their subjects.

Everyday Something Has Tried To Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America

Concise essays that clearly convey that the fight for racial justice must continue in the face of backlash. A must-purchase for all collections.
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Spin: How the World (and Almost Everything in It) Turns

An accessible and rewarding exploration of the physics of circular motion in everyday life.
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Grizzly Bear Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life: Forty Years of Research in the Flathead Valley

Wildlife enthusiasts will get a front-row seat to the adventure and science of studying grizzly bears, while learning a great deal along the way.

Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

A concise, imperative primer on the science and politics of the United States’ fresh-water crisis.
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

Provocative, in-depth, and scholarly. For readers interested in the history of adoption.
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Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

Historians and biologists will enjoy this thoughtful history of how the animal kingdom was mapped out and how people are still discovering their place within it.
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Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right To Farm

An academic yet accessible book that rural advocates and foes of inequality will appreciate.
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Audiences of all types will appreciate this easy-to-read narrative as well as Renner’s knowledge of the area, her academic ability, her candor, and her insights into human nature. Recommended for all libraries, especially academic ones and those in and around South Florida.
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Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner To Solve the Freshwater Crisis

Written with clarity and focus, this book tackles the water crisis from the novel perspective of private industry. A highly recommended addition to collections focused on business and the environment.

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power To Change Our World

Essential reading for medical professionals or anyone interested in improving the American healthcare system, this illuminating and inspiring book shows nurses as an integral part of their communities, fighting to overcome structural inequalities such as racism, sexism, and poverty while they try to heal the nation.
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

A valuable addendum to musical and hard science collections. Readers who have wide interests and want new ways to understand the world about them will be absorbed. Public and academic libraries will appreciate the scope.
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Sweet and Easy Japanese Desserts: Matcha, Mochi and More! A Complete Guide to Recipes, Ingredients and Techniques

An engaging entry into the world of Japanese sweets. This user-friendly volume will enliven any cookbook collection.

Humanizing Immigration: How To Transform Our Racist and Unjust System

A timely title that humanizes immigration and offers readers a deep understanding of the processes involved in seeking asylum and fighting deportation. It also clearly and expertly shows how specific enforced laws contribute to institutional racism.
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A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice

This narrative will make a good addition to both public and academic libraries, especially institutions with journalism programs.
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Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

Spanning from the colonial period through to the early national and antebellum eras, Taylor’s extensively researched book not only powerfully depicts the trauma endured by enslaved women, it also details how federal and state governments and judicial systems propped up the institution of slavery and allowed or enacted its overwhelming violence.
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The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It “Real” in Media, Culture, and Politics

A fascinating, commended academic exploration of the ways in which products and experiences are marketed to consumers.

Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity

As studies show that awareness of gender bias leads to more inclusion, this book is essential reading for faculty, administrators, potential students, and the entire scientific community. The focus is on higher education, but the book also looks at multiple research studies and proven interventions in science programming for younger students.

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

This book finds beauty in messy ecological processes.
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GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

For readers who are contemplating either setting up a crowdsourcing site or donating to one.
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Koreatown Dreaming: Stories & Portraits of Korean Immigrant Life

Recommended for anyone interested in the experiences of Korean Americans. For a more detailed exploration of the topic, consider Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream” by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.

The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After

A powerful celebration and examination of LGBTQIA+ nightlife. This book will serve as a significant record of evolving cultural touchstones and queer communities across the country.

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

A significant addition to cultural histories of self-expression. Hankir disrupts many deeply held assumptions about beauty, gender, and power.
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Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

A nostalgic analysis full of intriguing details. Sure to delight people who grew up with American Girl dolls, but it may be too niche for some readers.
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Butterflies of the Midwest Field Guide

A compact and useful guidebook for libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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OMFG, Bees!: Bees Are So Amazing and You’re About To Find Out Why

Playful watercolors and bee-enhanced modifications to classic art add to the humorous text.
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The Who, What, and Where of America: Understanding the American Community Survey, 10th Ed.

This publication should be considered a useful and supplemental guide to the Census Bureau’s website, since it expands on the information found within it.
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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

This book has the ability to tear holes into preexisting ideas readers may have about Egyptian women in the workforce. It also invites them to learn how some women shape their own professional identities. As intensely accessible and personable as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickeled and Dimed.

Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

An intriguing addition to the archaeological history of the American Southwest.

Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss

A sweeping, smart manifesto that’s crucial for white feminists to read in order to acknowledge, mitigate, and correct microaggressions and challenge oppressive systems.
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

A timely exploration of an increasingly frequent natural disaster. The human-centric story at the center will keep less academically oriented listeners engaged and, perhaps, pondering how close they’ve come to recent fires.
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Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

This illuminating, explicitly feminist study will provide listeners with a more accurate understanding of the menstrual cycle, as well as ideas for improving menstrual health on a global scale.
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The Grandin Papers: Over 50 Years of Research on Animal Behavior and Welfare That Improved the Livestock Industry

A valuable title for communities with agriculture and animal-processing businesses and schools. This book will also benefit policy makers and general readers interested in animal welfare and behaviors.
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The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

This work demands the attention of scholars and students of social mobilization and the construction, operation, and corruption of collective memory. Its message of how contentious U.S. politics warp democracy, however, deserves a general reading.

You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything

A worthy, fun dissection of pop culture that’s full of infographics and data.

The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

Reflective yet urgent, reverberating with feeling. Dixon beautifully articulates how loneliness is paradoxically a narrative that people experience together, even as they experience it in spaces of isolation, vulnerability, and loss.

Bookworthy Birds

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

While some readers might be drawn to this book by Peele’s star power, this is a well-crafted anthology that’s perfect for introducing readers to emerging and established Black authors.
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Ten Birds That Changed the World

This well-crafted book expertly highlights global societies’ treatment of birds, and it’s not a flattering story.

Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions

This delightful compilation of facts, figures, and photography will thrill and educate readers with an interest in the realities of American space travel.

Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park

Revelatory. The birds, the park, but also the science behind it make this book an outstanding resource.
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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do To Fix It

This title highlights the growing need for more qualitative research covering these exact types of experiences across all marginalized groups within the workforce. Both public and academic libraries will want to consider adding it to their collections.
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The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human-Canine Connection

An excellent addition to the field of canine cognition and emotional connection that is inclusive and easily digested.
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The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing

This delightful, gorgeously illustrated, browsable book is a quick read for those who want to learn facts and tidbits about a range of flowering plants. Readers can also discover how they may embody their best characteristics.
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

This book expertly demonstrates the advantage that the slowed-down lives of turtles can have on humans. Fans of Montgomery’s previous works will love this, and so will nature enthusiasts and environmentalists.

Who’s a Good Dog?: And How To Be a Better Human

This authoritative work asks how owners can provide their dogs with an environment to which comfortable, fulfilling adaptation is possible. Highly recommended for most collections.
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How To Forage for Wild Foods Without Dying: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Identifying 40 Edible Wild Plants

This handsome book has real utility as a field companion for safe, wild plant hunts.
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Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss

An intriguing, academic analysis of the link between U.S. racial politics and democracy.

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

This book arms readers with a sense of vital energy, often lost due to burnout, compassion fatigue, and microaggressions. Audiences curious about navigating the intersection between feminism and daily life, intellectualism, poetry, and activism will love this title.

Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques

A titillating, insightful essay collection. This standout title will attract both fans of literary nonfiction and readers interested in performance or sexuality studies. Those looking for other bold, witty essays may also enjoy Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby.
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Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

Craig’s infectious passion for birding, racial equity, and environmental activism are conveyed with joy and sensitivity. An exuberant memoir that is recommended for all collections.
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

This thorough nonfiction title is recommended for those who have found works by Jared Diamond, Clive Ponting, or Brian Fagan to be enlightening. A hefty but significant addition to any library’s collection on science, climatology, or history.
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Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race To Go Viral

Ideal for internet-culture aficionados as well as listeners interested in insider peeks at dot-com businesses of the recent past.
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Never Trust a Sneaky Pony: And Other Things They Didn’t Teach Me in Vet School

While Seamans strives to make this book accessible to all readers, equine enthusiasts and horse owners will benefit most from its content.
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds

Admirers of Ackerman’s previous birding books and fans of our feathered friends will relish this foray into the secretive lives of owls. This is an easy listen that gains strength as it progresses, without technical jargon bogging it down.
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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

An empathetic, beautifully narrated audio that details a heartbreaking tragedy complicated by social media and a politicized law-enforcement system.
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Kennedy’s lucid presentation makes for an accessible and compelling listen. Pair with Timothy C. Winegard’s The Mosquito.

A Wing and a Prayer: The Race To Save Our Vanishing Birds

An upsetting but ultimately hopeful look at how citizen scientists can effect positive change in the natural world.

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

This audio will appeal to listeners seeking accessible, engaging nonfiction about a topic that shapes society’s infrastructure and architecture much more than one may think. Recommended for fans of persuasive political writing presented as narrative nonfiction.
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Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

This audio will interest listeners seeking well-researched, issue-oriented nature nonfiction. A worthwhile purchase for most libraries, but the appeal is more niche than universal.
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Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

An informative and enjoyable listen, interweaving Danovich’s personal experiences with entertaining details about historical and current issues in the world of chickens.
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

An eclectic and captivating mix of gardening, memoir, history, poetry, and even song.
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Planting Our World

Recommended for larger collections where Sam Kean’s books are in demand or where there is interest in popular nonfiction about ecology and climate change.

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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

One of the most thoroughly researched portraits to date of poverty in often forgotten and neglected areas of the United States. Purchase for behavioral and social science collections.
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How To Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet

Only partially successful as a stand-alone read. An optional purchase for public and academic libraries.

Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes

This book offers a plethora of captivating details. Perfect for volcano junkies, those interested in earth sciences and history, or readers seeking white-knuckle mountain adventure.
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A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains

Vivid descriptions of climbs and conditions are thoughtfully paired with the author’s growth as a sportsman and a person. Highly recommended for readers of memoirs, sports narratives, and outdoor adventures.
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Return of the Bison: A Story of Survival, Restoration, and a Wilder World

A cautiously optimistic tale of recovery for historians and a call to action for nature lovers.
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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s Microbiome

This well-organized narrative of exploration and scientific discovery details the work of an important global science endeavor and brings together the topics of travel, microbiology, and sailing. It efficiently covers a vast amount of time, territory, and work.
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Landlines: The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey

Hope and determination in the face of all odds drive this engrossing book. Readers who have undertaken caretaking responsibilities for loved ones will find much to relate to in this honest depiction.
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50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

A timely and thought-provoking collection of feminist essays, which shows how far society has come and how much work is left to do to obtain true gender equality.

Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book.
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A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women

Especially well-suited for women seeking validation regarding the daily labors of love, or those seeking another source of political writing about the division of labor following Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play. Ideal for libraries that house Benjamin’s first two installments, as well as those where titles regarding women’s rights and injustices are needed.

Digital Empires: The Global Battle To Regulate Technology

An accessible, informative, instructive, and adroit analysis of the forces that are shaping choices and defining technology’s future promises. For policymakers, this is an essential read.
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Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

A well-intended title for general, maybe even younger readers, but not a priority purchase.

We Need To Talk About Antisemitism

An essential read for anyone interested in any aspect of antiracism or diversity, equity, and inclusion, or who generally wants to understand the current climate for Jewish people.
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Quiet Street: On American Privilege

Will likely appeal to general readers. It belongs in all social and behavioral sciences collections.

Shining Stars | The Best Science Books of the Year (So Far)

Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future

Readers will likely be engrossed by this book’s details and the colors showcased in its breathtaking photographs and illustrations, which may also be unnerving to some. An essential addition for academic libraries and natural sciences collections.
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Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farming Community

A beautifully descriptive, lyrical immersion in the natural world that’s coupled with a detective story, reminiscent of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Will likely appeal to readers interested in natural history, ecology, and pollinators.

Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways To Spot Birds Wherever You Are

Wolf’s humorous writing and the striking color photographs throughout this guide make it a standout. All birders, from novices to the ones who’ve been observing and identifying birds their whole lives, can benefit from this title.
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Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

Readers interested in science, journalism history, and women’s studies will find inspiration in learning more about these talented pioneers.
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The One Thing You Need To Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century

To aid readers, there are a 23-page glossary of terms and a nine-page alphabetical index. Recommended for general or school libraries.
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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems

While the scientific lingo can feel a little overwhelming at times, readers who persist through to the end will likely find themselves enlightened and eager to listen and learn.
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The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods

King’s engaging narrative exposes the maneuvering of lumber companies that plundered redwood forests for decades, with the collusion of powerful individuals in politics, academia, and civil service.

The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds

Readers won’t find a livelier celebration of Einstein’s work and life. A great recommendation for teens and adults alike.

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark

Fans of Jaws and “Shark Week” will love this book, but it’s also a compelling read for anyone interested in oceans, wildlife, conservation, or scientific adventures. An excellent title for readers who’ve ever been at the ocean’s edge and wondered what was out there.

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

This book urges readers to consider that there are already solutions to the world’s water crisis, though humankind may not have the political, social, and cultural will to implement those solutions. Highly recommended for all libraries.

The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

An intimate, moving narrative peppered with harsh statistics, love, angst, and the author’s own admirable vulnerability.
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Live To See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty

For non-academic audiences curious about and empathetic toward the deeply personal consequences of entrenched poverty.
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The Little Book of Exoplanets

Recommended for readers who appreciate astronomy or are intrigued by the possibility of life on other planets.

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

This impressively researched work with engaging narration is perfect for libraries with patrons interested in science, history, climate change, and ecology.
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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

An important, if dryly narrated, account of humans as accidental and purposeful animals of environmental extinction. Recommended for fans of environmental histories and scholars of the same.
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The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

A heartfelt and moving book for listeners who enjoy animal stories and insights into connections between humans and animals.
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System

An affecting listen, recommended for readers of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy.
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Hagerty’s illuminating account provides a fascinating and deeply moving glimpse into how anthropologists’ use of forensic methods has changed the ways in which research is conducted in the field.
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Poverty, by America

Although the message may not be welcomed by all, this thought-provoking book delivers. Recommended for all audio collections.
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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

All workers, as well as TV and movie buffs, can appreciate this well-told book of essays about labor in Hollywood.
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