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49.

Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system

Dutt, Yashica, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

305.5688 DUT

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:712376

50.

Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine

Blackstock, Uché, author.

Publication Date

2024

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Book

Call Number

610.92 BLA

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SD_ILS:713644

51.

Fighting the night : Iwo Jima, World War II, and a flyer's life

Hendrickson, Paul, 1944- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

940.542528 HEN

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SD_ILS:714043

52.

The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America

Tye, Larry, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

781.65 TYE

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SD_ILS:714049

53.

Ten bridges I've burnt : a memoir in verse

Purnell, Brontez, author.

Publication Date

2024

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Book

Call Number

813.6 PUR

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SD_ILS:714079

54.

Pack light : a journey to find myself

Curtis, Shilletha, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

796.51 CUR

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SD_ILS:714543

55.

Medgar & Myrlie [CD] : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America

Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author, narrator.

Publication Date

2024

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323.1196073 REI

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SD_ILS:714586

56.

Whiskey tender [CD] : a memoir

Taffa, Deborah Jackson, 1969- author.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

970.2 TAF

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SD_ILS:714589

57.

LeBron James in his own words : young reader edition

James, LeBron, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

796.323 JAM

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SD_ILS:714875

58.

American mother

McCann, Colum, 1965- author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

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306.8743 MCC

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SD_ILS:715129

59.

Chopping wood : thoughts & stories of a legendary American folksinger

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, author.

Publication Date

2024

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Book

Call Number

927.8242 SEE

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SD_ILS:715141

60.

The house of being

Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- author.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

811.54 TRE

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SD_ILS:715147

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