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A Dowry of Blood
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A Dowry of Blood

By S. T. Gibson ,

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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Unspeakable

By Carole Boston Weatherford , Floyd Cooper (illustrator) ,

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Valentine
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Valentine

By Elizabeth Wetmore ,

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Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season

By Fernanda Melchor , Sophie Hughes (translator) ,

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The Names of All the Flowers: A Memoir
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The Names of All the Flowers

By Melissa Valentine ,

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The Violence
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The Violence

By Delilah S. Dawson ,

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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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The Nation Must Awake

By Mary E. Jones Parrish ,

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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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The Ground Breaking

By Scott Ellsworth ,

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By Karlos K. Hill ,

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They Come at Knight
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They Come at Knight

By Yasmin Angoe ,

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Angel of Greenwood
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Angel of Greenwood

By Randi Pink ,

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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
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Why We Fight

By Christopher Blattman ,

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The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
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The Hardhat Riot

By David Paul Kuhn ,

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Invested Indifference: How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society
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Invested Indifference

By Kara Granzow ,

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Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
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Live to See the Day

By Nikhil Goyal ,

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Homie: Poems
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Homie

By Danez Smith ,

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Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence
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Lethal Intersections

By Patricia Hill Collins ,

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Your Shadow Half Remains
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Your Shadow Half Remains

By Sunny Moraine ,

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Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
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Age of Emergency

By Erik Linstrum ,

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Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume II
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Under Her Eye

By Lindy Ryan (editor) , Lee Murray (editor) ,

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Paper Girl and the Knives that Made Her
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Paper Girl and the Knives that Made Her

By Ari B. Cofer ,

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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: War Through the Lives of Women
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield

By Christina Lamb ,

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All Shall Mourn
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All Shall Mourn

By Ellie Marney ,

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