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The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky. N. K. Jemisin (Author) --- I LOVED The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin so much - spending time in this fantastic and familiar world with incredible characters was the best escape from the Minnesota winter. 

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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines anthology, edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai'a Williams, China Martens. Find the book in the Rad Mini Library! From AK Press: Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifti...

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Melissa (Previously Published as George). Alex Gino (Author) A Map Into the World. Kao Kalia Yang (Author)  Seo Kim (Illustrator) Grandad's Camper. Harry Woodgate (Author) On the Other Side of the Forest. Nadine Robert (Author)  GĂ©rard DuBois (Illustrator) Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook for Youth. Matt Hern (Editor)  Astra Taylor (Contribution by)  Noam Chomsky (Contribution by)  Dan Savage (Contribution by)  Grace Llewellyn (Contribution by)

Restocked

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The Rad Mini Library today is full of snacks, herbal tea, KN95s, and hand warmers. Books leave faster than are added, but the food & snacks leave the fastest, and I restock every few days. In Minnesota a derpy state senator trying to get validation from his death cult political party said something about never meeting a hungry person, so kids who can't pay for school lunch be damned. Facts are 1 in 6 Minnesotans and 1 in 4 black Minnesotans are being starved. One good act by the state - the MN governor signed a universal school meals bill into law.

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Maroons: A Grievers Novel. adrienne maree brown (Author) Station Six. S. J. Klapecki (Author) No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis. Lucy Diavolo (Editor)  Lindsay Peoples Wagner (Foreword by) The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Ching-In Chen (Editor)  Jai Dulani (Editor)  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor) Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir. Kao Kalia Yang (Author) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. Octavia E Butler (Author)  Damian Duffy (Adapted by)  John Jennings (Illustrator)  Hopkinson Nalo (Introduction by)