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• We Hereby Refuse

  Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  Abe, Frank, 1951-

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  Teen Nonfiction GN. Illustrates the experiences of three individuals—Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, and Mitsuye Endo—caught up in the US government’s decision during World War II to treat Japanese Americans as traitors. Join us for many more events…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• River Spirit

  a Novel

  Aboulela, Leila, 1964-

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  Fiction. A young woman struggles for independence alongside a nation. A captivating—if imperfect—account of colonialism, Islam, and the burgeoning nation of Sudan. (Kirkus Review)

• The Volcano Daughters

  a Novel

  Balibrera, Gina Maria,

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  Fiction. Balibrera eulogizes the lives lost in La Matanza, the real-life 1932 massacre of the Pipil people by the Salvadoran government, and underscores the value of holding one’s culture close, even when it threatens to disrupt just-scarring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  Nonfiction. A wide-ranging study that moves Indigenous peoples from the periphery to the core of continental history. (Kirkus Review)

• Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

  a Novel

  Bob, the Drag Queen, 1986-

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  Fiction. Darnell, a Black, gay, intermittently successful music producer, has received the commission of a lifetime: a gig producing an album by his idol, America’s first Black superhero, Harriet Tubman. (Booklist Review)

• Vampires of El Norte

  Cañas, Isabel,

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  Fiction. Childhood sweethearts reunite in the shadow of the Mexican War and the threat of vampires. (Kirkus Review)

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  Fiction. It's 1950 and the relatively sheltered life of Robert Stephens, a 12-year-old African American boy living in Florida, is changed forever when he comes to the aid of his older sister, Gloria, who is harassed by the teenage son of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

  a Novel

  Earling, Debra Magpie,

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  Fiction. This novel offers a revisionist history of Sacajewea, the Lemhi Shoshone woman who, while still a teenager, provided critical assistance to the Lewis and Clark expedition in their exploration of the Louisiana Territory. A profoundly moving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Dreamed of Empires

  Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-

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  Fiction. A vision of the Aztec empire on the verge of conquest. An offbeat, well-turned riff on anti-colonialist themes. (Kirkus Review)

• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  Fiction. Fajardo-Anstine traverses five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the U.S. West through the story of laundress and tea leaf reader Luz "Little Light " Lopez. (Library Journal)

• Displacement

  Hughes, Kiku,

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  Teen nonfiction GN. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feeding Ghosts

  a Graphic Memoir

  Hulls, Tessa, 1984-

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  Nonfiction graphic novel. An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Fiction. A professor unravels a mystery from the darkest depths of the Wild West. A weirdly satisfying and bloody reckoning with some of America’s most shameful history. (Kirkus Review)

• From These Roots

  My Fight With Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

  Lanier, Tamara, 1962-

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  Nonfiction. A woman's quest to trace her lineage leads to the discovery of a daguerreotype of her enslaved ancestor, igniting a decade-long legal battle against Harvard over the rightful ownership of historical artifacts and stories tied to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unsettled

  Mathis, Ayana,

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  Fiction. A family’s struggles in Philadelphia are echoed in turmoil in its ancestral Alabama. An affecting and carefully drawn story of a family on the brink. (Kirkus Review)

• Mexican Gothic

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Fiction. Moreno-Garcia takes on gothic suspense with a shiver-inducing tale combining touches of Northanger Abbey with bits of the Gormenghast trilogy thrown in for good measure. (Booklist Review)

• The Lions' Den

  Mwanza, Iris, 1969-

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  Fiction. A remarkable debut set in 1990 Lusaka in which a young lawyer fights for the life and rights of a teenage sex worker who is accused of crimes "against the order of nature," in a landmark case that changes Zambian law forever. (NoveList)

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  Nonfiction. A Cherokee journalist unpacks the landmark 2020 Supreme Court case that recognized the eastern half of the state of Oklahoma as Indian country. Gripping, infuriating, and illuminating—a valuable corrective to our national ignorance.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of the Merciful Deep

  Penelope, L., 1978-

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  Fiction. Penelope’s latest historical fantasy after The Monsters We Defy (2022), takes place in the Black southern town of Awenasa and follows Jane, an inquisitive yet doubt-ridden young woman who mainly communicates through ASL. With its foundation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take My Hand

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen,

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  Fiction. It’s 1973 in Montgomery, Alabama, and when a Black nurse realizes her young patients are being shockingly mistreated, a lawsuit reveals the systemic horror taking place. Vividly highlights the deep and lasting impact of injustice. (Kirkus…Read moreRead more of this annotation