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What You Need to Know About Voting – and Why by Kim Wehle
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Have questions about voting? A law professor tells you 'What you need to know' In What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why, law professor...
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: The latest entry in a new wave of memoirs For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black...
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Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: A painful past and ghostly present converge in 'Tokyo Ueno Station' Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the...
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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: 'A Most Beautiful Thing' tells of the first U.S. All-Black high school rowing team Growing up on Chicago’s Westside in the 90’s, Arshay Cooper...
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Dark Blood Comes From the Feet by Emma J. Gibbon
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Shirley Jackson meets Johnny Rotten in 'Dark Blood Comes From The Feet' Dark Blood Comes from the Feet is a strange and eclectic collection of seventeen...
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Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Kevin Kwan's new 'Sex and Vanity' is a summer romp with a satirical sting On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of...
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When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: A doctor confronts medical errors — and flaws in the system that create mistakes Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive...
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Pitch-perfect 'Mexican Gothic' ratchets up the dread After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious...
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
BUY Amazon | Bookshop The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just...
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