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The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, author.

Publication Date

2021

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523.01 PRE

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SD_ILS:603443

26.

On Juneteenth

Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

973.04 GOR

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SD_ILS:619165

27.

You got anything stronger? : stories

Union, Gabrielle, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

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Call Number

927.9145 UNI

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SD_ILS:619375

28.

Let me tell you what I mean [large print]

Didion, Joan, author.

Publication Date

2021

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Call Number

814.54 DID

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SD_ILS:594126

29.

Alice Trumbull Mason : pioneer of American abstraction

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 1904-1971, artist.

Publication Date

2020

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759.13 MAS

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SD_ILS:562749

30.

Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays

Messud, Claire, 1966- author.

Publication Date

2020

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Call Number

928.1354 MES

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SD_ILS:585463

31.

The selected works of Audre Lorde

Lorde, Audre, author.

Publication Date

2020

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Call Number

814 LOR

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SD_ILS:587546

32.

The food of Oaxaca : recipes and stories from Mexico's culinary capital

Ruiz, Alejandro (Chef), author.

Publication Date

2020

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641.597274 RUI

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SD_ILS:607944

33.

Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning

Hong, Cathy Park, author.

Publication Date

2020

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Call Number

305.895 HON

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SD_ILS:557232

34.

The pretty one : on life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me

Brown, Keah, author.

Publication Date

2019

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Call Number

616.836 BRO

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SD_ILS:498109

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The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon

Bloom, Harold, author.

Publication Date

2019

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Call Number

810.9 BLO

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SD_ILS:515107

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Little weirds

Slate, Jenny, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2019

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Call Number

814.6 SLA

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SD_ILS:508533

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Patchett, Ann. How to practice.

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Patchett, Ann. Moment nothing changed.

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Patchett, Ann. Worthless servant.

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