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• Three Little Words

  a Memoir

  Rhodes-Courter, Ashley, 1985-

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  An inspiring true story of the tumultuous nine years the author spent in the foster care system, and how she triumphed over painful memories and real-life horrors to ultimately find her own voice.

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival & Hope in An American City

  Elliott, Andrea,

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  In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew

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  In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.

• Fighting Words

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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  In this powerful novel that explodes the stigma around child sexual abuse and leavens an intense tale with compassion and humor, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley tells a story about two sisters, linked by love and trauma, who must find their own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Transcendent Kingdom

  Gyasi, Yaa

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  Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love.

• The Body Keeps the Score

  Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-

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  In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

  and Other Stories From a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook : What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Life, Loss, Love, and Healing

  Perry, Bruce D. (Bruce Duncan), 1955-

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  In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Grandmother's Hands

  Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

  Menakem, Resmaa,

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  In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghosts from the Nursery

  Tracing the Roots of Violence

  Karr-Morse, Robin • Wiley, Meredith S.

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  When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was published in 1997, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a child’s brain by preschool.

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption

  Stevenson, Bryan

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  Just Mercy tells the story of the Equal Justice Initiative, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deepest Well

  Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity

  Burke Harris, Nadine, 1975-

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  The news of Burke Harris’s research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs—adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stamped From the Beginning

  a Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

  Gill, Joel Christian,

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  In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.