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History and Current Events September 2024
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| Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen AtlantaBeauty industry insider Ellen Atlanta's impassioned debut examines the impact of toxic beauty culture practices, offering a "thoughtful consideration of physical female beauty and how it's dictated and judged" (Booklist). Further reading: Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls -- and How We Can Take It Back by Kara Alaimo. |
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| The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World by Daisy DunnClassicist Daisy Dunn's (The Shadow of Vesuvius) accessible, three-millennia spanning history highlights the roles and experiences of women in ancient civilizations. Try this next: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez. |
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| A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession... by Kim Mager with Lisa PulitzerAshland, Ohio detective Kim Mager's disturbing account of her encounters with serial killer Shawn Grate, whom she interrogated following his 2016 arrest, "hums with the intensity of a real-life Silence of the Lambs" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling and Justice in a Small Town by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. |
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Focus on: Hispanic Heritage Month
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| Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola RamosVice journalist Paola Ramos travels throughout the United States to amplify "the voices that are often neglected in the back of the room" in these profiles and photographs of diverse Hispanic and Latine people who have embraced the inclusivity of the term "Latinx." Further reading: Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez. |
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