Take Note July 2024 Nonfiction SelectionsLike this list

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• Dateable

  Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled

  Slice, Jessica

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  Through personal anecdotes and interviews with “people across the ability spectrum,” this author details an inclusive relationship guide for disabled and chronically ill folks. (publishers)

• American Flygirl

  Ankeny, Susan Tate,

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  This biography highlights Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American female pilot to serve in the U.S. military.

• Rooted

  the American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

  Baker, Brea

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  The author documents how African Americans have been disenfranchised by the U.S. government and wealthy white people through land theft.

• More, Please

  on Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "enough"

  Specter, Emma

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  In this memoir, the author explores her relationship with food since girlhood and her struggles with binge-eating disorder.

• Night Flyer

  Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

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  The author uses a womanist approach in this biography of the most well-known Underground Railroad conductor.

• Rebels With a Cause

  Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture

  Way, Niobe, 1963-

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  Way brings her expertise on human development to an examination on when we get wrong in the way we raise boys. She offers thought-provoking suggestions for a better way and unpacks what we stand to gain as a society if we commit to change.

• Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones

  a Memoir

  Mattoo, Priyanka

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  “A sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life” (publisher), this memoir-in-essays tells the story of Kasmir-born Mattoo’s many travels on the way to finding her current abode in Los Angeles. A funny, insightful reflection on finding one’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

  the Rise and Fall of An American Organized-crime Boss

  Fox, Margalit

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  When Fredericka Mandelbaum immigrated to New York City, she was nearly penniless, but went on to become one of the most successful organized crime bosses of the Tammany Hall era. Her story is a must-read for those interested in Gilded Age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The CIA

  An Imperial History

  Wilford, Hugh, 1965-

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  Wilford history delves into how the Cold War and other exigencies drove the evolution of the CIA from primarily an intelligence gathering organization to one that extended American imperial ambitions by other means. A fascinating shadow…Read moreRead more of this annotation