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  • Adrift: America in 100 Charts - by Scott Galloway
    An urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here
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  • All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - by Tiya Miles
    A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women
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  • American Holocaust - by David E. Stannard
    Columbus and the conquest of the New World
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  • An Indigenous People's History of the U.S. - by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    The first history of the U.S.. told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
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  • And Yet They Persisted - by Johanna Neuman
    How American women won the right to vote
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  • At The Hands Of Persons Unknown - by Philip Dray
    The lynching of Black America
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  • Atlas of Indian Nations - by Anton Treuer
    A Comprehensive resource in Native American history and culture
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  • Beautiful Boy - by David Sheff
    A father's journey through his son's addiction
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  • Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own - by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
    James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. 
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  • Beneath A Ruthless Sun - by Gilbert King
    A true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
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  • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes what we See, Think, and Do - by Jennifer Eberhardt
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  • Boy Erased - by Garrard Conley
    A Memoir of identify, faith, and family
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  • Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
    The author recounting his journey in the Deep South of the U.S., at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation
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  • Carry - by Toni Jensen
    A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence
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  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent - by Isabel Wilkerson
    Examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America
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  • Catch A Star: Shining through Adversity to become a Champion - by Tamika Catchings
    All she wanted was to fit in, Tamika never imagined one day she'd stand out
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  • City of Thorns - by Ben Rawlence
    A vivid portrait of the forgotten refugees in Dadaab, the worlds largest refugee camp
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  • Closet Haikus - by R.R. Noall
    The first ever collaborative coming out poetry collection
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  • Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films In A White World - by Wil Haygood
    Unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America
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  • Crazy Rich Asians - by Kevin Kwan
    A novel introducing a contemporary Asia to a North American audience
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  • Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain
    by Zaretta Hammond
    Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students
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  • David Walker's Appeal - by David Walker
    The most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century
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  • Desperately Searching for Higher Education Among the Tuins of the Great Society - by Barbara Fleming
    America's Two National Elementary and Secondary School Systems: One for the rich and one for the poor
     
  • Differently Abled: Taking A Stand, Making a Difference - by Graeme Axford
    Tells the real life story living with invisible disabilities
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  • Do The Work! - by Kate Schatz & W. Kamau Bell
    An antiracist activity book
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  • Dog Whistle Politics - by Ian Haney Lopez
    How coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class
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  • Dying of Whiteness - by Jonathan M. Metzl
    How politics of racial resentment is killing America's Heartland
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  • EL Norte - by Carrie Gibson
    The epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America
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  • Extraordinary Women in History - by Lea Gail
    70 remarkable women who made a difference, inspired and brok barriers
     
  • Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality - by Elisabeth Griffith
    Integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality
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  • Freedom to Discriminate - by Gene Slater
    How Realtors Consipired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
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  • Full Dissidence: Notes From an Uneven Playing Field - by Howard Bryant
    A meditation on injustice in our country
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  • Generation Z LEADS - by Corey Seemiller, Meghan Grace
    A guide for developing the leadership capacity of Generation Z students
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  • Ghost Of The Innocent Man - by Benjamin Rachlin
    A true story of trial and redemption
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  • Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin
    In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality
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  • Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America - by Ryan Busse
    A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry
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  • Hidden Figures - by Margot Lee Shetterly
    Three brilliant African-American women at NASA serve as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glen
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  • Historic Black Settlements of Ohio - by David Myers and Elise Meyers Walker
    Short history of black settlements in Ohio
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  • How the Word is Passed - by Clint Smith
    A reckoning with the history of slavery across America
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  • How To Be An Antiracist - by Ibram X. Kendi
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  • I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
    by Wil Haygood
    Celebrates the visual art and material culture of the Harlem Renaissance
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  • If Beale Street Could Talk - by James Baldwin
    A love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s
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  • In The Company Of Women - by Grace Bonney
    Inspiration and advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
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  • Inclusive Conversations - by Mary-Frances Winters
    Specific, tactical, and compassionate approaches for dialoguing across difference
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  • Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II - by Richard Reeves
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  • Insane - by Alisa Roth
    America's criminal treatment of mental illness
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  • Is Everyone Really Equal? - by Ozlem Sensory & Robin DiAngelo
    Award-winning guide to key concepts in Social Justice Education
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  • Islam - by John Kaltner
    What non-Muslims should know
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  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty - by Dorothy Roberts
    A rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women
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  • Lies My Teacher Told Me - by James W. Loewen
    Everything your American History textbook got wrong
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  • Lola's House: Filipino Women Living With War - by M. Evelina Galang
    The stories of sixteen surviving Filipino "comfort women"
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  • Lost Dayton
    Explores Dayton's retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential sites and how they have changed over time
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  • Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race - by Laura E. Gomez
    The story of the original Mexican Americans
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  • Mexicans in the Making of America - by Neil Foley
    A sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America
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  • Miracle People - by Sue Snyder
    An inspiring anthology of differently-abled beings
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  • Mudbound - by Hillary Jordan
    A novel about the Jim Crow south immediately following World War II
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  • Nice Racism - by Robin Diangelo
    How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
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  • Overground Railroad - by Candacy Taylor
    The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book
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  • Poverty By America - by Matthew Desmond
    The author reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about shy it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it
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  • Raise A Fist, Take A Knee - by John Feinstein
    Race and the illusioon of progress in modern sports
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  • Reading with Patrick - by Michelle Kuo
    A teacher, a student, and a life-changing friendship
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  • Red Summer - by Cameron McWhirter
    A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings
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  • Rising Out of Hatred - by Eli Saslow
    The awakening of a former white nationalist
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  • Road from Raqqa - by Jordan Ritter Conn
    A story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging
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  • Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice - by Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow
    A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change
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  • See No Stranger - by Valarie Kaur
    A memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love
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  • Separate: - by Steve Luxenberg
    The story of Plessy v Ferguson and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
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  • Shook One - by Charlamagne Tha God
    A blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety
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  • Stamped From The Beginning - by Ibram X. Kendi
    The definitive history of racist ideas in America
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  • Still I Rise - by Marlene Wagman-Geller
    the persistence of phenomenal women
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  • Talking to Strangers - by Malcolm Gladwell
    What we should know about the People we Don't Know
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  • Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity - by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi
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  • The 1619 Project - by Nikole Hannah-Jones
    A profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present
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  • The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - by Karlos Hill
    Photos and oral testimonies which shine a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors.
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  • The ABC's of LGBT+ - by Ashley Mardell
    A detailed look at all things LGBT+
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  • The Battle for Brandon - by Chad Bonham
    How a coach fought to bring his son home
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  • The Beauty in Breaking - by Michele Harper
    A poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing
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  • The Black Butterfly - by Lawrence T. Brown
    The harmful politics of race and space in america
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  • The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World - by Mason Funk
    True story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present
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  • The Color of Water - by James McBride
    A black man's tribute to his white mother
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  • The Content of Our Character - A New Version of Race in America - by Shelby Steele
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  • The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America - by Eric Cervini
    The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall
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  • The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children - by Gloria Ladson-Billings
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  • The Factory - by Christopher Lordan, Robert Dellelo
    A journey through the prison industrial complex
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  • The Fire Next Time - by James Baldwin & Steve Schapiro
    One of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations
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  • The Girl Who Thought in Pictures - by Julia Finley Mosca
    The story of Dr. Temple Grandin
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  • The Hidden History of American Healthcare - by Thom Hartman
    Why sickness bankrupts you and makes others insanely rich
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  • The Hidden Wound - by Wendell Berry
    Explores the hidden wound of racism and its damaging effect on American whites
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  • The Hundred Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey - by Dawn MacKeen
    An tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story
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  • The Myth of Equality - by Ken Wytsma
    Uncovering the roots of injustice and privilege
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  • The Negro Travelers' Green Book - by Victor H. Green
    The guide to travel and vacations
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  • The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America - by Helen Thorpe
    Follows the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015-2016 school year
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  • The Other Slavery - by Andres Resendez
    The uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America
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  • The Racial Healing Handbook - by Anneliese A. Singh PhD
    Practical activities to help you challenge privilege, confront systemic racism, and engage in collective healing
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  • The Road from Raqqa - by Jordan Ritter Conn
    Crossing years and continents, the harrowing story of the road to reunion for two Syrian brothers who - despite a homeland at war and an ocean between them - hold fast to the bonds of family
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  • The Song Poet: A Memoir of my Father - Kao Kalia Yang
    A Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America
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  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow - by C. Vann Woodward, William S. McFeely
    A clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow Laws
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  • The Sum of Us - by Heather McGhee
    What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
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  • The Tipping Point - by Malcolm Gladwell
    Author defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."
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  • The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life - by Jim Tressle
    Shares Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel's "Big Ten" fundamentals for success
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  • The Woman's Hour - by Elaine Weiss
    The great fight to win the vote
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  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - by Zora Neale Hurston
    A 1937 novel considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance
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  • Tigerland - by Wil Haygood
    1968-1969: A city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing
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  • Trans*: A Quick & Quirky Account of Gender Variability - by Jack Halberstam
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  • Underground America - by Peter Orner, Annie Holmes, Tom Andes
    Narratives of undocumented lives
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  • Unexampled Courage - by 

    Richard Gergel
    How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America's civil rights history
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  • Unified - How Our Unlikely Frindship Give Us Hope for a Divided Country - by Tim Scott & Trey Gowdy
    Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world
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  • We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation - by Matthew Riemer
    Essential and empowering intro to the history of the fight for queer liberation
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  • We Are Still Here! by Traci Sorell & Frane Lessac
    Native American truths everyone should know
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  • We Were Eight Years in Power - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    A collection of essays written by the author during Obama's presidency
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  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens the Democracy - by Cathy O'Neil
    A 2016 American book about the societal impact of algorithms
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  • What Have We Done? - by David Wood
    A battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars
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  • What's Your Pronoun? by Dennis Baron (He/Him/His)
    Provides much needed historical context and analysis to the debate around what we call ourselves
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  • When Time Stopped - by Ariana Neumann
    A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
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  • While The City Slept - by Eli Sanders
    A love lost to violence and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
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  • White Fragility - by Robin Diangelo
    Why it's so hard for white people to talk about Racism
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  • White Guilt: How Blacks & Whites Together Destroy the Promise of the Civil Rights Era - by Shelby Steele
    The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt--and neither has been good for African Americans.
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  • Why? - by Peter Hayes
    Explaining the Holocaust
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  • Zookeepers Wife - by Diane Ackerman
    1939 Poland. A true story of a family who rescued hundreds of Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II
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