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The Method How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act By Butler, Isaac

Afterparties Stories By So, Anthony

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Donner, Rebecca

Frank Sonnets By Seuss, Diane

Girlhood Essays By Febos, Melissa

How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America By Smith, Clint

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois A Novel By Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne

All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake By Miles, Tiya

Floaters Poems By Espada, Martín