Awards search:Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

Brown: The Last Discovery of America

by Richard Rodriguez
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
LATINX, JUSTICE, ADULT, NON-FICTION, American History
Barcode
1168
Status
Available
Call number
305.868073

Joey Pigza Loses Control

by Jack Gantos
Paperback, 2014
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, MIDDLE GRADES, ADD, ADHD, FAMILIES, divorce, alcoholism, fathers and sons
Series
Joey Pigza (book 2)
Barcode
1730
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

So Much!

by Trish Cooke
Paperback, 1997
Tags
FAMILIES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, FICTION, multicultural
Barcode
12
Status
Available
Call number
823.914

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

by Ann Fessler
Paperback, 2007
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, ADULT, NON-FICTION, adoption, women's rights, reproductive rights, history
Barcode
1645
Status
Available
Call number
362.8298

The Bells of Christmas

by Virginia Hamilton
Hardcover, 1989
Tags
FAMILIES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUVENILE, FICTION, winter holidays, holidays, Christmas, celebration, joy, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1864
Status
Available
Call number
411

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, ADULT, medical ethics, ethics
Barcode
1110
Status
Available
Call number
616.02774092

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
JUSTICE, ADULT, incarceration, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
894
Status
Available
Call number
353.4

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, ADULT
Barcode
893
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond
Paperback, 2017
Tags
JUSTICE, ADULT, housing, eviction, poverty, NONFICTION, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2030
Status
Available
Call number
339.4

Lawn Boy

by Jonathan Evison
Paperback, 2019
Tags
LGBTQIA, TEEN, FICTION, coming of age, coming out, class, poverty, LATINX
Barcode
1787
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

by America Ferrera
Paperback, 2018
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, essays, TEEN, NON-FICTION, LATINX
Barcode
1264
Status
Available
Call number
920.073

SHOUT

by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, sexual assault, rape, memoir, poetry, survival
Barcode
1109
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
ADULT, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, history, class, class structure, social order, Kirkus Starred Review, JUSTICE
Barcode
1453
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
ADULT, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, history, class, class structure, social order, Kirkus Starred Review, JUSTICE
Barcode
1480
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, history, American History, racism
Barcode
1807
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)

by Isabel Wilkerson
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, history, class, class structure, social order, Kirkus Starred Review, JUSTICE, TEEN
Barcode
2061
Status
Available
Call number
305.5

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

by Ibram X. Kendi a cura di
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, ADULT, history, American History, black history, slavery, civil rights, racism, black power movement, harlem renaissance — 2 more, voting rights, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1638
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

by Emily Ladau
Paperback, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, JUSTICE, ADULT, disabilities, disability justice, ally, ableism, history, accessibility
Barcode
2015
Status
Available
Call number
305.908

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones Creator
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, ADULT, NON-FICTION, history, black history, slavery, freedom
Barcode
1475
Status
Available
Call number
973
Page: 1.1978 seconds