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The Best American Essays 2020
by
André Aciman (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780358359913
Publication Date: 2020
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985
by
James Baldwin
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780807006573
Publication Date: 2021
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity
by
Emily Paige Ballou; Sharon daVanport; Morénike Giwa Onaiwu (Editors)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780807025697
Publication Date: 2021
Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
by
Gina Barreca (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781949116212
Publication Date: 2021
The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter
by
Boston Review
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781839763113
Publication Date: 2020
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York (Revised Edition)
by
Sari Botton (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781541675681
Publication Date: 2021
She Memes Well
by
Quinta Brunson
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781328637079
Publication Date: 2021
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by
Tarana Burke; Brené Brown (editors)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780593243640
Publication Date: 2021
Café Shapiro Anthology - 23rd Annual
Publication Date: 2020
Thick – And Other Essays
by
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620974377
Publication Date: 2018
What Future 2018 : The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology & the Planet
by
Meehan Crist & Rose Eveleth (Editors)
ISBN: 9781944700669
Publication Date: 2018
Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation
by
Kimberly Dark
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781849354141
Publication Date: 2021
Women on Food
by
Charlotte Druckman
ISBN: 9781419736353
Publication Date: 2019
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food From 31 Celebrated Writers
by
Natalie Garrett
ISBN: 9781936787791
Publication Date: 2019
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19
by
Jennifer Haupt (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781771682299
Publication Date: 2020
The Inner Coast: Essays
by
Donovan Hohn
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781324005988
Publication Date: 2020
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
by
Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063043879
Publication Date: 2022
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
by
Briona Simone Jones (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781620976258
Publication Date: 2021
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
by
Colleen Kinder (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781643752235
Publication Date: 2022
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN: 9781618731340
Publication Date: 2016
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
by
Edan Lepucki (Editor)
ISBN: 9780358093169
Publication Date: 2019
The Contemporary American Essay
by
Phillip Lopate (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780593314975
Publication Date: 2021
Vesper Flights
by
Helen Macdonald
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780802146694
Publication Date: 2020
Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic
by
Lise McClendon (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780578717753
Publication Date: 2020
Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art
by
Tony McKenna
ISBN: 9781789043570
Publication Date: 2020
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
by
Claire Messud
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781324006763
Publication Date: 2020
Things I Have Withheld
by
Kei Miller
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780802158956
Publication Date: 2021
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective
by
Lenard D. Moore (Editor)
ISBN: 9781949467338
Publication Date: 2020
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
by
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)
ISBN: 9781419729485
Publication Date: 2018
The Best American Food Writing 2019
by
Samin Nosrat (Editor); Silvia Killingsworth (Editor)
ISBN: 9781328662255
Publication Date: 2019
These Precious Days: Essays
by
Ann Patchett
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063092808
Publication Date: 2021
Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
by
Dale Peterson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781595348678
Publication Date: 2020
Just Us: An American Conversation
by
Claudia Rankine
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781644451199
Publication Date: 2020
The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change
by
David Remnick; Henry Finder (Editors)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780063017566
Publication Date: 2020
So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire
by
Anna Russell; Camila Pinheiro (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781781318270
Publication Date: 2019
The Way of Imagination: Essays
by
Scott Russell Sanders
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781640093669
Publication Date: 2020
This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
by
Sejal Shah
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780820357249
Publication Date: 2020
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis
by
Tracy K. Smith; John Freeman (Editors)
Call Number: EBSCO
ISBN: 9780593314692
Publication Date: 2021
The Best American Essays 2019
by
Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781328465801
Publication Date: 2019
Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
by
James P. Steyer (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781797205175
Publication Date: 2020
Lost In Summerland: Essays
by
Barrett Swanson
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781640094192
Publication Date: 2021
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
by
Astra Taylor
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781642594546
Publication Date: 2021
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781608468683
Publication Date: 2017
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire
by
Tea Uglow
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780711275027
Publication Date: 2022
Inter State: Essays from California
by
Jose Vadi
ISBN: 9781593766955
Publication Date: 2021
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology
by
Karina Vernon (Editor)
ISBN: 9781771123747
Publication Date: 2020
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
by
Natalie West (Editor); Tina Horn (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781558612853
Publication Date: 2021
Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest
by
Terrion L. Williamson (Editor)
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781948742887
Publication Date: 2020
The Best American Travel Writing 2019
by
Jason Wilson (Editor); Alexandra Fuller (Editor)
ISBN: 9780358094234
Publication Date: 2019
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