Go Set a Watchman

In this controversial sequel, set two decades after the events in Pulitzer-prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, 26-year-old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch returns home to Maycomb, Alabama to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights era that was transforming the South, Scout’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family and the small town that shaped her.

Funeral Diva

A mix of memoir and poetry that responds to both the AIDS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of a Black queer female writer.

Fun Home

Fun Home is a graphic memoir by cartoonist Alison Bechdel. It follows Alison through the early years of her life as she navigates her relationship with her closeted father, discovers her own sexuality, and grapples with her father’s supposed suicide. Told in a non-linear fashion, the book touches on the themes of gender identity, sexual orientation, dysfunctional households, suicide, and literature as a way of connecting to life.

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

A leading forest ecologist changes our perspective on trees and their connections to one another and the ecosystem in the forest as she describes her personal journey of discovery. You will learn that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are instead members of a complex, interdependent circle of life and that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own.

Feminist Killjoy: A Handbook

Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”? If so, you might be a feminist killjoy—and this handbook is for you. In this book, feminist theorist Sara Ahmed shows how killing joy can be a radical world-making project.

Factfulness

Factfulness presents data about the health, economic condition, and safety of the world today and how all those and other features have improved significantly. Most people are misinformed about the world situation, and most people believe that the world is in much worse shape than actual data about the world reveals. If you do not have time to finish the whole book, no worries, just watch some of Rosling’s TED talks.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Disability Visibility is a compelling anthology of diverse personal stories written by persons with a disability. The stories cover a range of topics and perspectives on the disability experience and challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions often associated with disability. Having worked in the field of disability for many years with persons with disability at UT, in the community, and in the criminal justice system, I will relate my experiences with the personal narratives provided in Wong’s book.

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

How much are your memories worth on the open market and can they save someone you care about? What form will discrimination take in our dystopian future? How should the unscrupulous owner of a rundown amusement park handle a vandalism problem? These are just some of the topics that George Saunders explores in this stunning and original short fiction collection.

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