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The Noble Hustle
Colson Whitehead
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Space Bandits – IBSD Version
Mark Millar,Matteo Scalera
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The Warlow Experiment
Alix Nathan
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Know Your Price
Andre M. Perry
"The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities-stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and other state-sanctioned policies like...
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The Color of Money
Mehrsa Baradaran
"When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States'...
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A Better Life
Rebecca Smith
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Little Constructions
Anna Burns
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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Ruth Emmie Lang
Full of nature and wonder, love and adventure, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a beautifully written novel that “bristles with...
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Seamus Heaney
A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be "the greatest poet...
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