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• We Are Everywhere

  Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation

  Riemer, Matthew, 1982-

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  A visual history of the fight for queer liberation. This offers a powerful look at the decades of protest, power and pride that carved the history of LGBTQ+ rights.

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  This dystopian novel follows a woman entrapped by a totalitarian society's reproductive slavery.

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  A 20th century African-American woman is dragged back in time to a plantation and world of slavery in this blend of science fiction and slave narratives.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Chbosky, Stephen

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  This coming of age novel follows Charlie as he navigates the challenges of mental health, friendship, identity and high-school.

• Mornings in Jenin

  a Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan

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  A multi-generational novel following a Palestinian family displaced from their ancestral home.

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  A masterpiece of magical realism, this story follows the BuendÍa family in the town of Macondo.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  This novel follows sixteen year old Starr. She lives between two worlds separated by class and race. The balance she maintains is lost when her best-friend is shot by police.

• On Tyranny

  Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

  Snyder, Timothy,

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  This critical guide offers twenty lessons from the twentieth century on how to recognize and resist authoritarianism.

• There There

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  This novel follows twelve Native American characters converging on a powwow in Oakland. A compelling story about identities in an urban setting.

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-

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  In a cafe in Tokyo customers are afforded the opportunity to travel back in time as long as they return to the present moment before the coffee gets cold.

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  Hurston, Zora Neale

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  This classic of the Harlem Renaissance details Janie Crawford's journey of self-discovery, marriage, and her independence,

• When I Was Puerto Rican

  Santiago, Esmeralda

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  This memoir about her childhood in Puerto Rico to her move to Brooklynn, New York detail themes of cultural differences, familial relationships and her education.