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• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  2021 Selection – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle,

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  Caste read-alike – Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-

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  Caste read-alike – Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality.

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  Caste read-alike – Richard Rothstein has painstakingly documented how American cities became so racially divided. Rothstein describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation.

• A Man Called Ove

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  2020 Selection – A curmudgeon hides beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior a terrible personal loss while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.

• The Big Finish

  Fossey, Brooke,

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  Man Called Ove read-alike – A curmudgeonly senior who would avoid a nursing home forges an unexpected bond with his estranged granddaughter, an abused child who is rapidly succumbing to the alcoholism that once painfully overshadowed his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

  Groen, Hendrik,

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  Man Called Ove read-alike – The riotous journal of an octogenarian who is far from reaching the end of his life traces a year in his care home in Amsterdam, revealing the ups and downs of his misadventures with the anarchic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  a Novel

  Semple, Maria

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  A Man Called Ove read-alike – When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

  Egan, Dan,

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  2019 Selection – Traces the scientific, historical, and ecological factors endangering the Great Lakes, discussing late-nineteenth century efforts to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, which unexpectedly introduced invasive species from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Home Alone

  From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

  Dunn, Rob,

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  Death and Life of the Great Lakes read-alike – Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Earning the Rockies

  How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

  Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-

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  Death and Life of the Great Lakes read-alike – As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fracking Debate

  the Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution

  Raimi, Daniel,

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  Death and Life of the Great Lakes read-alike – Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the U.S. has surged dramatically—thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hillbilly Elegy

  a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  Vance, J. D.,

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  2018 Selection – Shares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Trash

  the 400-year Untold History of Class in America

  Isenberg, Nancy,

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  Hillbilly Elegy read-alike – A history of the class system in America from Colonial times to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, challenging popular notions about equality while citing the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maid

  Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

  Land, Stephanie, 1978-

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  Hillbilly Elegy read-alike – An economic hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-pay domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Riverine

  a Memoir From Anywhere but Here

  Palm, Angela,

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  Hillbilly Elegy read-alike – An award-winning collection of essays on place, young love and crime reflects on the author's upbringing on the banks of the Kankakee River in rural Indiana, where annual floods shaped community dreams and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew,

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  2017 Selection – A Harvard sociologist examines the under-represented challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• High-risers

  Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

  Austen, Ben,

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  Evicted read-alike – Blends personal narrative, city politics and national history in the story of Chicago's iconic public-housing project to trace its evolution from a 1940s slum to a towering community only blocks from the Gold Coast,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is All I Got

  a New Mother's Search for Home

  Sandler, Lauren,

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  Evicted read-alike – Chronicles a year in the life of a young, homeless single mother and her quest to find stability and shelter in New York City.

• Heartland

  a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

  Smarsh, Sarah,

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  Evicted read-alike – Reveals one woman's experience of working-class poverty with a startlingly observed, eye-opening and topical personal story.