The Best That You Can Do: Stories

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  By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s …

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  No Small Thing

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  Marlena

  An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades
  
  Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’…

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  Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

  In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justi…

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  Neighbors and Other Stories

  A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-centu…

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  Behind You Is the Sea

  An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean…

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  Long After We Are Gone

  An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who return home in the wake of their father's death in order to save their family's home from being sold out f…

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  Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

  Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
  
  Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and clima…

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  These Letters End in Tears

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  Fire Exit

  The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks the same, yet it’s different, we’re told, in so many various ways and for so many various reasons. But…

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  The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster

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  Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

  Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience.
  
  Gaza, home to two million people, contin…

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  A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture

  A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces
  
  For as long as queer women have existed, they…

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  The Coin

  A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags
  
  The Coin follows a Palestinian woman as she pursues a dre…

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  Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)

  A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author…

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  Outdrawn

  It isn’t always lonely at the top.
  
  Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she’s garnered enough attention to earn a full-time po…

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  The Thing About Home: A Lowcountry Novel

  Home is not a place—it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar, the former model turned social media influencer has …

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  The Message

  Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how o…

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  La habitación alemana

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  This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

  From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, an…

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