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Recommendations for Black August VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)

Assata: An Autobiography

Black Girl, Call Home

Monument: Poems New and Selected

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

The Scent of Burnt Flowers

Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Blood in My Eye

Song of Solomon

The Water Dancer

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Kindred

The Nickel Boys

Punching the Air

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Bans Off Our Bodies VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)

No Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Mercy Street

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality /]csarah McBride

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

The Family Roe: An American Story

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement

Jane Against the World: Roe V. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

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Women in Translation VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

Dead-End Memories: Stories

That Hair

Waiting for the Waters to Rise

Tender Is the Flesh

Ladivine

The Chandelier

The Vegetarian

All the Lovers in the Night

Life Ceremony: Stories

Faces

Dogs of Summer

The Books of Jacob

The Memory Police

The Woman Destroyed

Paradais

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Join the Sealey Challenge VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)

Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Black Girl, Call Home

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

Soft Science

Poukahangatus: Poems

Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems

Bright Dead Things: Poems

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Time Is a Mother

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems

All the Flowers Kneeling

Customs: Poems

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Back to School VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)

The Queen of Kindergarten

The King of Kindergarten

We Don't Eat Our Classmates: A Penelope Rex Book

School Is Wherever I Am

This Is a School

The Pigeon Has to Go to School!

Time for School, Little Blue Truck: A Back to School Book for Kids

Llama Llama Back to School

Berenstain Bears Go to School

School Day!

Uni Goes to School (Uni the Unicorn)

Upcoming Events at ECB VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)

A Hundred Other Girls

The Daydreams

A Special Place for Women

Happy and You Know It

The American Roommate Experiment

The Spanish Love Deception

Thank You, Next

Vigil Harbor

True Biz

The Witches of Moonshyne Manor: A Witchy Rom-Com Novel

Hum If You Don't Know the Words

If You Want to Make God Laugh

The Final Gambit

The Hawthorne Legacy

The Inheritance Games

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Notable New Releases, Summer 2022 VIEW LIST (47 BOOKS)

Thank You for Listening

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

I'm Glad My Mom Died

All This Could Be Different

The Rabbit Hutch

The Last White Man

A Hundred Other Girls

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

Sirens & Muses

Our Wives Under the Sea

Honey and Spice

Night of the Living Rez

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Staff Picks, Summer 2022 VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)

Evvie Drake Starts Over

Assata: An Autobiography

The Immortal King Rao

Sing, Unburied, Sing

The Jasmine Throne

Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

Liebestrasse

The Dead Romantics

Dirt Creek

Revelator

Woman of Light

A Magic Steeped in Poison

Across a Field of Starlight: (A Graphic Novel)

Swamplandia!

Marrying the Ketchups

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Caribbean American Authors VIEW LIST (41 BOOKS)

No Gods, No Monsters

Monster in the Middle

The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories

How to Love a Jamaican: Stories

Ordinary Girls: A Memoir

These Ghosts Are Family

You Had Me at Hola

Hurricane Child

No Filter and Other Lies

My Broken Language: A Memoir

Olga Dies Dreaming

Black Buck

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Patsy

A Proposal They Can't Refuse: A Rom-Com Novel

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Disabled Authors and Stories VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)

Sorrowland

Seven Days in June

Marcelo in the Real World

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

One for All

True Biz

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

Diary of a Young Naturalist

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

El Deafo

The Bone Houses

The Kiss Quotient

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

The War That Saved My Life

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