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Biography and Memoir March 2024
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| Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MDSecond-generation physician Dr. Uché Blackstock recounts her education and career in medicine and describes how her experiences in both areas inspired her to found Advancing Health Equity, an organization dedicated to dismantling systemic racism in healthcare. Further reading: Sickening by Anne Pollock; Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa; Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington. |
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| Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle HortonIn her heartwrenching debut memoir exploring the failures of the American criminal justice system, Michelle Horton chronicles her ongoing efforts to get her sister, Nikki, released from prison following her 2019 conviction for killing her abuser. Try this next: Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza. |
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Dear Oliver : an unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks
by Susan R. Barry
"In this intimate and inspiring book, Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became friends, laying bare the meeting of two people endlessly intrigued by the world and its mysteries"
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Grief is for people
by Sloane Crosley
The author of the New York Times best-sellers I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number shares how she dealt with the grief of losing her best friend to suicide. 75,000 first printing.
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Focus on: Women's History Month
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| The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith MackrellJournalist Judith Mackrell's engaging and richly detailed collective biography spotlights six women journalists during World War II who braved the front lines -- and workplace sexism -- to break barriers in their profession. For fans of: Katherine Sharp Landdeck's The Women with Silver Wings. |
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| Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot by Niloofar Rahmani with Adam SikesInternational Women of Courage Award winner Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot and the country's first woman pilot since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, details her unlikely path to success in a "heart-racing account [that] will leave readers gripping their seats" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: Book of Queens: The True Story of Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Pardis Mahdavi. |
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