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Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) (Hardcover)

By Anastasia Higginbotham

$15.16

ISBN: 9781948340007

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Published: Dottir Press - September 4th, 2018

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With Anastasia Higginbotham, there's no sugar coating. Not My Idea encourages white children to ask hard questions, to call out racism when they see it, to educate themselves about the history of white supremacy, and to recognize that fixing the problem is one of their societal responsibilities. A poignant book presented with creative mixed-media.

Stacey

Elvis Is King! (Hardcover)

By Jonah Winter, Red Nose Studio (Illustrator)

$14.39

ISBN: 9780399554704

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Published: Schwartz & Wade - January 8th, 2019

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This book is beautiful! The painstakingly rendered illustrations make you feel like you’re watching a favorite animated film, and the text will have you rushing to your stereo. Classics like Elvis never go out of style; long live the King!  

Caleb

The Fearless Baker: Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro (Hardcover)

By Erin Jeanne McDowell

$24.00

ISBN: 9780544791435

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Published: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - October 24th, 2017

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Did you know you could make cookies in a waffle iron? I do now, and so do you! (Though I'd recommend doubling up the batter recipe)

John

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom (Paperback)

By David F. Walker, Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator)

$15.99

ISBN: 9780399581441

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Published: Ten Speed Press - January 8th, 2019

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A bullseye that is more than worth your time. This carefully crafted book nails the astonishing personal story and clearly explains layers of U.S. history and movements. For ages 12 to 112.

 

Molly

João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto (33 1/3 Brazil) (Paperback)

By Bryan Daniel McCann, Jason Stanyek (Editor)

$18.36

ISBN: 9781501323959

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Published: Bloomsbury Academic - November 29th, 2018

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What better way to spend a cold, snowy February day reading McCann’s book while listening to the classic album that help define the bossa nova sound of the early 1960s. Part of the terrific 33 1/3 series that explores in depth seminal recordings of many different genres, this volume places the Getz/Gilberto album in social, historical, and musical context along with expert discussions of each composition cut by cut.

Dale

Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

$19.99

ISBN: 9781620974360

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Published: New Press - December 4th, 2018

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An amazing collection of essays exploring questions of race, beauty, class, and authority from new angles, from a brilliant sociologist (who'll be here on March 1).

Sarah

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib

$13.56

ISBN: 9781477316481

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Published: University of Texas Press - February 1st, 2019

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Abdurraqib catalogs musical history with a mythic, yet personal, reverence, sharing his heroes in a way that makes them accessible while canonizing them as larger-than-life icons. Whether you’re a longtime fan of A Tribe Called Quest or a total initiate, this book holds  something fresh for you; this is what all culture writing should aspire to.

 

Caleb

Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Frie (Hardcover)

By Mary McAuliffe

$23.96

ISBN: 9781538112373

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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - September 13th, 2018

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Such was the ongoing intellectual ferment of the City of Light that even in the squalid Depression decade an extraordinary cast of characters lived singular lives and created exciting things, in spite of  - or perhaps stimulated by - the gathering geopolitical dread...

Gary

These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore

$39.95

ISBN: 9780393635249

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

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With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

Dale

Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles (Paperback)

By Taisia Kitaiskaia

$14.99

ISBN: 9781449486815

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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - September 26th, 2017

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Some of the questions posed are very traditional for an advice column, but the responses are all earthy, poetic, and a little sinister. I can easily picture Baba Yaga's claws clacking away as she type up her response. I enjoy the raw, truthfulness of some of the answers, but just a reminder that Baba Yaga is not an actual therapist. (This book was featured on BitchReads' list of "11 Books to Hex the Patriarchy" last October.)

Stacey