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New Leisure Reading Books
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson's magnificent, extensively researched study of the "great migration," the exodus of six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an "uncertain existence" in the North and Midwest. |
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Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
by Thomas J. Sugrue Historian Sugrue offers a three-pronged approach to contextualize the race issue. |
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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir
Lauded journalist Norris, cohost for All Things Considered on NPR, intended to write a book analyzing the changing conversation about race in the Obama era. But once she realized that even within her own family, discussions about race were "not completely honest," she changed course. |
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Two hauntingly similar boys take starkly different paths in this searing tale of the ghetto. Moore, an investment banker, Rhodes scholar, and former aide to Condoleezza Rice, was intrigued when he learned that another Wes Moore, his age and from the same area of Greater Baltimore, was wanted for killing a cop. |
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. |
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The Complete Guide to Healthy Cooking and Nutrition for College Students: How Not to Gain 17 Pounds at College
by J. Lucy Boyd The key to healthy living for college students is in a good diet, and this book will provide everything you need to maintain that. |
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Knack College Cookbook: Dorm Eating and Apartment Feasting
by David Doran
With full-color, step-by-step photos accompanying simple yet scrumptious recipes, Knack College Cookbook makes preparing flavorful, healthy, budget-friendly food easier than ever. |
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Paper Plates and Plastic Forks: Cooking for College Students
by Stacey A. Levine and Aiden A. Bowman From the 2009-2010 Editors-in-Chief of The Huguenot Herald comes a cookbook unlike any other: a cookbook designed by teenagers for teenagers. "Paper Plates and Plastic Forks: Cooking for College Kids" is a cookbook of 20 easy recipes which consist of ingredients commonly accessible to college students. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot This audio recording documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely. |
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein This novel is a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope. |
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An Object of Beauty
by Steve Martin Meet Lacey Yeager, an art dealer in Manhattan eager to climb the social and economic ladder. In the late 90s, she will stoop to any depths to advance herself and her career. |
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Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room--an 11×11-foot space that is their prison--captives of the terrifying man Jack calls Old Nick. But as Jack grows older and more curious, it becomes clear that the room will not be able to hold him and Ma forever." |
* The above items descriptions were provided from publisher pages and reviews from
Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and the Matthews Book Company.
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