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    The Leo Frank Case

    Leonard Dinnerstein

    The story of the Leo Frank case reads like a Greek tragedy. As The New Republic wrote at the time: “In ancient times when a man was treated as Leo…

  • Portrait of Nell Irvin Painter
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    Nell Irvin Painter

    …to lift up the work of Nell Irvin Painter and the many ways her captivating prose has caused us all to confront our racial history conceptually and materially.   Nell Irvin Painter’s latest book, I Just Keeping Talking: A Life…

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    Black Like Me

    John Howard Griffin

    Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week…

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    Scottsboro

    Dan T. Carter

    …the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1970. Carter’s historical investigation traces the struggle for justice of nine Black men falsely accused of raping two white women, a battle that was brought to…

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    The Yellow Birds

    Kevin Powers

    …creates a tightly focused, hypnotic story that spirals around his central character’s isolation. Powers has created a piercing portrayal of war. Kevin Powers was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son…

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    Praying for Sheetrock

    Melissa Fay Greene

    …black kids were bused away from the white school, and where the white county sheriff had his hand in every racket there was. Praying for Sheetrock is the saga of…

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library: Author Jim Shepard

    September 23 – September 23, 2026

    …seven previous novels, most recently The Book of Aron (winner of the 2016 PEN New England Award, the Sophie Brody medal for achievement in Jewish literature, the Ribalow Prize for Jewish literature,…

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    Cleveland Public Library: Inventory of Lost Books

    September 1 – September 30, 2026

    …the complete list of requested titles here and drop them off at any Cleveland Public Library location, including the Book Nook at the West Side Market and Main Library during the…

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    The War Against the Jews

    Lucy S. Dawidowicz

    …murder, the efforts by the victims to hold onto fragments of normal life—to create its emotional and intellectual impact. Mrs. Dawidowicz refused to judge the failure of the Jews themselves…

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    There There

    Tommy Orange

    …YouTube and by watching videos and television: “There on the screen, in full regalia, the dancer moved like gravity meant something different for him. It was like break dancing in…

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    Evangelist of Race

    Geoffrey G. Field

    …Century (Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts). The author was a forty-four-year-old English expatriate living in Vienna, Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The book was an immediate best seller: as Geoffrey G. Field…

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    Wade in the Water

    Tracy K. Smith

    …best book – among hundreds – that she read from 2018. “Awe” was Dickinson’s favorite word, and it pervades Smith’s lines. “Literature allows us to be open, to listen and…

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    Your Most Humble Servant

    Shirley Graham

    …make a good life for my sons.” The nomadic quality of Graham’s early life carried over into her educational experiences and into her later years. After attending classes at Howard…

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    Infidel

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    Readers with an eye on European politics will recognize Ali as the Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament who faced death threats after collaborating on a film about domestic violence…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …a sergeant-major, only to return to racial violence and riots in 1919. He was appointed associate director of the National Urban League and used the research he conducted in that…

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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    …There, she focused on black authors and edited books by Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, and Muhammad Ali. Morrison also continued writing her own fiction at night, after…

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    The Wall

    John Hersey

    …novel are fused with non-fiction reportage. During his lifetime, Hersey served in many posts connected with writing, journalism and education. He was the first non-academic named master of a Yale…

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    The Struggle for Equality

    James M. McPherson

    …was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the Lincoln Prize….

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    The Civilization of the Goddess

    Marija Gimbutas

    …by combining traditional spadework with linguistics and mythological interpretation. Her conclusions that Neolithic sites in Lithuania and across Europe pointed to long-term stable egalitarian societies with women at the center…

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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    The winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to one of the most prolific poets of the 21st century, Yusef Komunyakaa. Yusef Komunyakaa’s contributions over half a century have…