April 2024 list by Elizabeth Hanby
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Historian Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of the revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas from 1760 to 1825, showing how the sweeping political transformations after 1800 etched social and racial inequalities into the foundations of modern democracy.
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates
Through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, this epic story of Black self-definition in America is told through the myriad of writers who've led the way and who have used words to create a livable world — a "home" — for Black people destined to live out their lives in a racist society.
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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
by Kara Swisher
Journalist Swisher tells a witty and scathing accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
by Jonna Mendez
In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez’s high-stakes work — how this savvy operator parlayed her “everywoman” appeal into incredible subterfuge — but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.
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My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
by Sami Samir Hermez
Hermez offers an account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.
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Not Your China Doll: The Wild And Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
by Katie Gee Salisbury
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, author Salisbury celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, bringing an unsung heroine to light and reclaiming her place in cinema history.
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
by Billy Dee Williams
Recalling his remarkable life of nearly eight decades, the film legend who has starred in 40 movies, seven Broadway plays and has made more than 40 TV shows and movies combined, shows how he, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, became a true pop culture icon.
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Whiskey Tender
by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America.
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