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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
792.0899 ABDURR 2021
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
792.0899 ABDURR 2021
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[2021] | First edition. | Random House | xii, 300 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available 792.0899 ABDURR 2021 Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 792.0899 ABDURR 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
591.5 ROACH 2021
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[2021] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available 591.5 ROACH 2021 Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available 591.5 ROACH 2021 |
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
CD 591.5 ROACH 2021
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[2021] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio, Incorporated | 8 audio discs (approximately 9 hr., 20 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available CD 591.5 ROACH 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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2021 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
940.5412 BROWN 2021
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[2021] | Viking | xx, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 940.5412 BROWN 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
759.13 REMBER 2021
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2021. | Bloomsbury Publishing | xvi, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm | English | On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available 759.13 REMBER 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery-a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh start...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
972.91 FERRER 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First Scribner hardcover edition. | Scribner | xi, 560 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 972.91 FERRER 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
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"In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raul Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. In both...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
BIO BURKE 2021
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2021. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | 258 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available BIO BURKE 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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2021 | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
891.708 SAUNDE 2021
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
891.708 SAUNDE 2021
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[2021] | First edition. | Random House | xii, 410 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 891.708 SAUNDE 2021 Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 891.708 SAUNDE 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
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[2021] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xxiv, 515 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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2021 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
598.96 MEIBUR 2021
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
598.96 MEIBUR 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | x, 366 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 598.96 MEIBUR 2021 Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 598.96 MEIBUR 2021 |
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"An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey--the caracara--that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive... quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
973.0496 FOUR 2021
North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
973.0496 FOUR 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | One World | xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.0496 FOUR 2021 North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.0496 FOUR 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
266.0237 HEYRMA 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | xvii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 266.0237 HEYRMA 2021 |
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"A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"--
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
929.2097 KEEFE 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | Doubleday | xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 929.2097 KEEFE 2021 Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 929.2097 KEEFE 2021 South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 929.2097 KEEFE 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
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2021. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | 386 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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2021 | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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"A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the cliches of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
569.986 WRAGGS 2020
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2020. | Bloomsbury Sigma | 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 569.986 WRAGGS 2020 |
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2020 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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2020 | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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Casting aside the cliche of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, this fascinating volume sheds new light on the Neanderthal and where they lived, what they ate and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
973.93 PACKER 2021
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
973.93 PACKER 2021
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2021. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 226 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.93 PACKER 2021 Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 973.93 PACKER 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
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In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing protests, and an election marred by conspiracy theories left many citizens in despair about their country and its democratic experiment. With pitiless precision, the year exposed the nation’s underlying conditions―discredited elites, weakened institutions,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
814.54 DIDION 2021
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
814.54 DIDION 2021
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
814.54 DIDION 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxxv, 149 pages ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 814.54 DIDION 2021 South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 814.54 DIDION 2021 Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 814.54 DIDION 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2021 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
570 ZIMMER 2021
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[2021] | Dutton | xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 570 ZIMMER 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses--the harder they find it is to locate life's edge"--
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
792.642 LAPINE 2021
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2021. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | xv, 390 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 792.642 LAPINE 2021 |
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"A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George"--
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available
909.0492 HORN 2021
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xxi, 237 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf 1 available 909.0492 HORN 2021 |
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2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Checked Out
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2021 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Checked Out
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"A startling exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "Auschwitz," the Jewish history of the Chinese city of Harbin, and the little known "righteous-gentile" Varian Fry, Dara Horn challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, as emblematic of...
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[2013] | Bolden | 148 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 813.6 LAYMON 2013 |
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2013 | OverDrive | Agate Publishing | English | Available Online
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In this collection of essays from a new voice, author Laymon, author of the novel Long Division (June 2013), explores "the benefits and burdens of being born a black boy in America" in the Deep South. With humor, insight, and compassion for himself and the uniquely American characters he meets along the way, he touches on hip-hop, racial politics, his youth in Mississippi, and his own personal struggles with racial identity as he leaves his close-knit...