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• No Visible Bruises

  What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

  Snyder, Rachel Louise

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  Snyder documents the high personal and public health cost caused by domestic violence in this powerful account in which she interviews both victims, abusers, and examines contributing factors like poverty and addiction.

• The Least of Us

  True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

  Quinones, Sam, 1958-

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  Quinones, who previously documented the opiod crisis in his award-winning Dreamland, here explores the rise of meth and fentanyl addiction through the people involved and affected by all sides of the crisis.

• The Hospital

  Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

  Alexander, Brian, 1959-

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  Alexander documents the problems with the medical industry today through the struggles of one small-town hospitals and the providers and patients who populate it.

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

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  The experiences of undocumented Americans is unflinchingly described in this account, a National Book Award finalist.

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Kendi's book is part memoir and part social commentary, documenting both what racism is and how it manifests and appropriate antiracist response, thoughts, and actions.

• Dirty Work

  Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

  Press, Eyal

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  Press introduces the concept of dirty work, or the morally questionable jobs, that are disproportionately staffed by low-income and marginalized workers. Jobs like slaughterhouse workers, prison guards, and oil rig workers are discussed.

• How the Other Half Eats

  the Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

  Fielding-Singh, Priya

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  A sociologist and ethnographer explores how various inequities affect American's diets, nutritional and health disparities, and food choices.

• Social Justice Parenting

  How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-racist, Justice-minded Kids in An Unjust World

  Baxley, Traci,

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  A professor of education offers tips on how to raise children with an awareness of various injustices and how to work toward change.

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle,

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  In this new tenth-anniversary edition, Alexander's powerful polemic against mass incarceration also includes how the book has propelled movements calling for prison reform.

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew

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  Desmond's engrossing and enlightening book shares how tenous housing can be for low-income Americans, and how systemic problems and the dearth of affordable housing perpetuate this cycle.

• Children Under Fire

  An American Crisis

  Cox, John Woodrow, 1985-

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  Cox expands his Pulitzer-winning newspaper series about the effects of gun violence on the children caught up in its wake. I won't easily forget the stories of Ava and Tyshaun, two young children who form a friendship based on their shared…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Social Warming

  the Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

  Arthur, Charles, 1961-

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  Many of us spend a great deal of time scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, YouiTube, Twitter and other social media platforms. What does all that time liking and lurking do to us? Arthur spells out the consequences, for us personally and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• She Said

  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

  Kantor, Jodi, 1975-

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  This account of how two journalists helped break the story of Harvey Weinstein's abusive behavior not only discusses sexual harassment and how it has been perpetuated by powerful people and institutions but it also documents the role…Read moreRead more of this annotation