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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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| An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David FinkelPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow David Finkel explores political divisions in America via profiles of Iraq War veteran and suburban family man Brent Cummings, whom he followed from 2016 to 2020. Try this next: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz. |
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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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| Errand Into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah JowittDance critic Deborah Jowitt spotlights trailblazing modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991), who produced dozens of ballets during her prolific career and whose eponymous technique is still practiced today. Further reading: Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern by Neil Baldwin. |
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| What Have We Here? Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee WilliamsIconic Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams dishes on his life and eight-decade career in this candid memoir written "with the panache and suavity that characterize his screen presence" (Publishers Weekly). For fans of: I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels. |
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Focus on: Women's History Month
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| The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Furman University professor Gregg Hecimovich's richly detailed investigation plumbs the identity of author Hannah Crafts, whose 1850s work The Bondwoman's Narrative remained undiscovered and unpublished for nearly 150 years and is the only known novel written by an enslaved woman and the first novel written by a Black American woman. Try this next: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher. |
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| Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen JoinerIn her thoughtful and witty debut, disability rights activist Judith Heumann chronicles her trials and triumphs in the face of an ableist society, including her time as the U.S. State Department's first Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, a position she held for seven years. Further reading: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong. |
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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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| Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy StanleyHistorian Amy Stanley's atmospheric Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award winner surveys the life of Tsuneno, a woman in early 19th-century Japan who endured three failed marriages before leaving her rural village in search of independence and adventure in the city of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Try this next: Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Atlantic County Library System | 40 Farragut Avenue, Mays Landing, NJ 08330
Phone: (609) 625-2776 | www.atlanticlibrary.org
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Atlantic County Board of Commissioners, Maureen Kern, Chairwoman |
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