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• Storm Lake

  a Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope From a Heartland Newspaper

  Cullen, Art,

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  The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa newspaper published twice a week, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for taking on big agricultural companies poisoning local waters. In this book, the newspaper's publisher describes how Storm Lake has changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Survival Math

  Notes on An all-American Family

  Jackson, Mitchell S.

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  Mitchell S. Jackson had to make difficult calculations to survive growing up in a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, facing drugs, poverty, violence, and government neglect. Survival Math traces the way his family managed their lives and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trial of Lizzie Borden

  a True Story

  Robertson, Cara,

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  The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. This account of the trial is based on transcripts of the proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, and newly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Fed An Island

  the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

  Andrés, José, 1969-

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  Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria. He and his team fed hundreds of thousands of people, cooking up to 100,000 meals a day at more than a dozen kitchens across the island. We Fed an Island describes the network…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Far Field

  a Novel

  Vijay, Madhuri,

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  After her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village to confront Bashir Ahmed, a salesman who frequented her childhood home but disappeared a decade prior.

• Inspection

  a Novel

  Malerman, Josh,

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  J is a student at an all-boys school for geniuses deep in a forest and far from the world. He knows no family but the school's founder, and no life but life at the school. But J is starting to suspect there's something more out there—and on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island of Sea Women

  a Novel

  See, Lisa,

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  Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary People

  a Novel

  Evans, Diana, 1971-

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  In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washington Black

  a Novel

  Edugyan, Esi,

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  Washington Black, an 11-year-old slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified of the cruelties that await him when his master's eccentric brother chooses him as a manservant. But Christopher Wilde is a naturalist, inventor, and abolitionist,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women Talking

  a Novel

  Toews, Miriam, 1964-

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  For two years, the girls and women of a Mennonite colony have repeatedly violated by "demons" who "punished them for their sins." Upon learning that they were actually drugged and attacked by men from their own community, eight women hold a secret…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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