Taylor, Courtney Faye

Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 TAY

Leggero, Natasha

Summary: The stand-up comedian presents a funny collection of essays on being a mom that explores themes like "geriatric" motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, and conflicting advice on raising children.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 LEG

Summary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYT