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Oct 27th 2020
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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents & a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life.
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There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents & a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life.
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But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns & colours & claws who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, & the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house.
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Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, & the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
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Oct 25th 2020
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lord
Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays & poems of American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, & civil rights activist Audre Lorde for the first time.
#GWLRecommends #BlackHistoryMonth
Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays & poems of American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, & civil rights activist Audre Lorde for the first time.
#GWLRecommends #BlackHistoryMonth
A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde’s luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers & writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Her lyrical & incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, & class; reflecting struggle but ultimately...
Her lyrical & incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, & class; reflecting struggle but ultimately...
offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry & prose together produced an aphoristic & incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many...
