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Updated September 9, 2025
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The color of law :
Rothstein, Richard
Paper Book
Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood...
Did you hear about Kitty Karr? :
Smith Paul, Crystal
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths...
The human stain
Roth, Philip.
Ebook
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY The American psyche is channeled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by...
Passing
Larsen, Nella
Paper Book
A gorgeous new edition of Passing, Nella Larsen's powerful classic novel on female racial identity in 1920s New York City. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander SkarsgÄrd.Irene Redfield, married to a successful physician, enjoys a...
Silver sparrow /
Jones, Tayari
Paper Book
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage "A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Silver Sparrow...
The tycoons : how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy
Morris, Charles R.
Paper Book
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."- The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the...
The vanishing half /
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE * VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR New York Times<...

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