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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schoolsby Monique Morris

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schoolsby Monique Morris

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Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.

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pushout: the criminalization of black girls in schools

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african american girls - social conditions

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discrimination in education - united states

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ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

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social science / discrimination & race relations

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

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Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for ...

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An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives.

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane has 25,064 ratings and 3,780 reviews. Elyse said: Lisa See fans.... ARE GOING TO BE HAPPY with The Tea Girl of Hummingb...

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An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.

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The Weight of Ink has 3,929 ratings and 639 reviews. Elyse said: Manuscripts had laid undisturbed more than 300 years. A discovery had been made.Helen ...

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The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

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Beartown has 64,076 ratings and 9,752 reviews. Chelsea said: I'm sure anyone who has either read this book or heard anything about it by now realizes thi...

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?

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I'm about half-way through at this point and find myself re-reading passages as I'm going along. Beautiful yet simple use of language, very engaging aI'm about half-way through at this point and find myself re-reading passages as I'm going along. Beautiful yet simple use of language, very engaging and touching narrative, wholly lacking in self-pity. Theresa Ward...more (less)

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I'm about half-way through at this point and find myself re-reading passages as I'm going along. Beautiful yet simple use of language, very engaging aI'm about half-way through at this point and find myself re-reading passages as I'm going along. Beautiful yet simple use of language, very engaging and touching narrative, wholly lacking in self-pity.

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibgiza

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibgiza

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For 91 days,  Immaculee and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.

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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart ...

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it.

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The New Jim Crow has 33,557 ratings and 4,135 reviews. Bill said: In February of 2016, a powerful article appeared in The Nation: "Why Hillary Clinton D...

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Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

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The Swan Thieves has 28,055 ratings and 4,112 reviews. Greg said: I'm sorry Goodreads First Reads program. First I win a book I only entered to win to te...

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A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

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I began this reading only because my friend liked it well enough to recommend it. My own response about Africans, both in Africa and in diaspora, has I began this reading only because my friend liked it well enough to recommend it. My own response about Africans, both in Africa and in diaspora, has been unhappy. This book, however, has elicited a very positive response, though it explores many of the same issues that the others have. The difference seems to be the lyrical and forthright and non-judgmental point of view of the author. I loved it and wait for another book by Yaa Gyasi ...more (less)

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I began this reading only because my friend liked it well enough to recommend it. My own response about Africans, both in Africa and in diaspora, has I began this reading only because my friend liked it well enough to recommend it. My own response about Africans, both in Africa and in diaspora, has been unhappy.

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A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal in Berlin. Refusing to explain her presence in the freezing water, she is taken to the hospital where an examination reveals that her body is riddled with countless, horrific scars. When she finally does speak, this frightened, mysterious woman claims to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia.

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I Was Anastasia has 1,334 ratings and 442 reviews. Debra said: Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be th...

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For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok.

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White Houses has 4,731 ratings and 781 reviews. Larry said: Fifty-five years after her death, and more than 70 years after she left the White House follo...

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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit.

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An American Marriage has 29,489 ratings and 3,749 reviews. Emily May said: Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.I know it's still ...

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Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

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alaska - social life and customs - 20th century

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An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "A TOUR DE FORCE." ―Kirkus (starred review)Alaska, 1974.Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet an...

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Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer--madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place--feels her inner world light up. Then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined.

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The Female Persuasion has 2,853 ratings and 510 reviews. Emily May said: The Female Persuasion is a novel with little story and a lot of ideas, none of t...

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Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.

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Winter Solstice has 18,790 ratings and 1,193 reviews. Lynne said: This is one of my favourite books of all time. The writing is fantastic, the characters...

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fineby Gail Honeyman

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fineby Gail Honeyman

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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking...
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine has 118,494 ratings and 14,974 reviews. Emily May said: Eleanor Oliphant is completely 100% fine. She goes to her off...

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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institutionby Wally Lamb

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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institutionby Wally Lamb

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In a stunning work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word.

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 

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A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

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Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is ...

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Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

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Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

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Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts to hear voices, it's Miranda who must fight for the help her sister needs — even as Lucia refuses to be defined by any doctor's diagnosis.

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Everything Here Is Beautiful has 2,802 ratings and 547 reviews. Emily May said: And then, her worst fear: that the line between her sister and her illn...

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When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it’s just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness.

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The Elizas has 316 ratings and 116 reviews. Jasmine said: The Elizas Review & Blog Tour About: The Elizas is a mystery thriller written by Sara Shepard...