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Transcendent: A Memoir
by Laverne Cox
Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing.
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
by Rhae Lynn Barnes
Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex, subterranean, and all–too–often expunged history of blackface in America. With its gripping writing and penetrating archival research, Darkology peers beneath the historical boulders that deliberately obscure our racial past and chronicles how this brand of "entertainment" dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.
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The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation
by Nicole Carr
In The Price of Exclusion, journalist Nicole Carr uncovers an often forgotten history of Black medical pioneers who gave their all—and sometimes their lives—so others could thrive. Told through the extraordinary life of her great-grandfather, Dr. Lawrence St. Clair Ferguson, a Jamaican-born physician who practiced in Philadelphia during the Spanish Flu pandemic, Carr’s exploration is both intimate and sweeping, taking readers from segregated hospital wards to the frontlines of recent public health crises. An urgent narrative during a time when diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in medicine are under political attack, The Price of Exclusion forces us to reckon with the past while imagining a future where healthcare truly values every single life.
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The Missed Connection
by Tia Williams
On a flight to Paris for work, Sasha Cruz has a chance encounter with the handsome passenger sitting next to her, but they never exchange information. Convinced she's lost out on her soulmate, Sasha emails her work friend for help...but accidentally writes to the entire company worldwide. Thus begins the international manhunt to find Seat F in this intensely romantic, deliciously sexy tale about the unexpected places the hunt for love can lead you.
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A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher MurrayFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Personal Librarian, A Pair of Aces is a gripping novel about Eunice Carter and Polly Adler, two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious gangster Lucky Luciano.
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Honey
by Imani Thompson
Yrsa is bored: bored with her PhD program, her entitled students, and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read. But most of all, she's bored with the men in her life--especially the bad ones. And then, one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one. Suddenly a problematic professor is dead, and Yrsa, well--she's no longer bored. Emboldened, she starts to chase the high, and soon no misbehaving sexist man within commuting distance is safe. Finally Yrsa's academic research feels useful. But how long can killing in the name of feminist and racial solidarity justify her actions? And how long until her actions--and buried family secrets--come back to unravel her?
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