Jaffe, Sarah W.
Summary: When privileged parents say that they "want what's best" for their child, they don't consciously add "and not for other children." Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pursuing their own child's interests is that other children are left behind. Author Sarah W. Jaffe interviewed dozens of parents who are resisting the cultural pressures to seek "the best" for only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 JAFDaniels, Ezra Claytan
Summary: "Why do some of us feel more empathy for neglected dogs than black victims of police brutality? How can someone claim to cherish the sanctity of life while excusing child deaths at border detention centers as collateral damage? Are You at Risk for Empathy Myopia considers the idea that we subconsciously force our experiences into moral narratives to satisfy an evolutionary desire for order. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Independent/Ezra Claytan Daniels] 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DANSaad, Layla F.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAAHale, Shannon
Summary: Amaya, Princess of House Amethyst in Gemworld, is sent to mundane Earth to teach her that magic is a privilege, but after Amy has long settled into ordinary middle school life, a Prince of the Realm brings her home to restore her magical destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HALLundy, Trish
Summary: "Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count--the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they'll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria Moreno, Robbie's ex, who mysteriously drowned at the family lake house. Then, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUNWest, Lindy
Summary: Presents a cultural critique of the backlash against the #MeToo movement and discusses how the deceptions at the heart of the white male mythos have led to today's open practices of misogyny and prejudice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.42 WESFoster, Brooke Lea
Summary: "In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha's Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Foster 2020Manne, Kate
Summary: "An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 MANDee, Jonathan
Summary: "In Jonathan Dee's elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road. Rid of any possible identifiers, his possessions amount to $168,548 in cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he hits a city where his past is unlikely to track him down, and finds a room to rent from a less-than-stable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEEJha, Sonora
Summary: "Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JHABarnhardt, Wilton
Summary: "Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street's biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father's choices and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARThomas, Elisabeth
Summary: Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWest, Kathleen
Summary: "Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson can't stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESCornejo Villavicencio, Karla
Summary: "Catalina is trying to work out her own life as she leaves her undocumented family behind to enter Harvard. Suffering from bouts of PTSD, she struggles to connect to her new world just as she struggled to make sense of her old one. She infiltrates the subcultures of elite undergrads-internships and college newspapers, parties and secret societies-and observes them like an anthropologist, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024