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1. All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake

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Miles, Tiya, 1970-
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"In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother Rose gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that 'It be filled with my Love always.' Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley....

2. Between the world and me

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary...

3. The five: the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper

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Rubenhold, Hallie
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography
The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the "Ripper" murders forever

Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England,...

4. His only wife: a novel

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Medie, Peace Adzo, 1981-
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"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world"--

5. How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

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Smith, Clint
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Examines the legacy of slavery by highlighting the continued preservation of monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.

6. I will always write back: how one letter changed two lives

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Alifirenka, Caitlin
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Green Road Community - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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North Regional - Young Adult Non-Fiction
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"The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever."--Provided by publisher.

7. A single thread

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Chevalier, Tracy
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"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fianceĢ, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home...

8. Uncanny valley: a memoir

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Wiener, Anna, 1987-
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"The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"--

9. Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy

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O'Neil, Cathy
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