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Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society today?
Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at an "unusual" branch: Northwest One.
Using her experience at this branch allows Oliver to highlight the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded: racism, segregation, and class inequalities. These age-old problems have evolved into police violence, the opioid epidemic, rampant houselessness, and lack of mental health care nationwide-all of which come to a head in public library spaces.
Can public librarians continue to play the many roles they are tasked with? Can American society sustain one of its most noble institutions?
Pushing against hundreds of years of stereotypes, romanticization, and discomfort with a call to reckoning, Overdue will change the way you think about libraries forever.
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Reveals a Person Wise & Experienced & Literate
- De dbbks3 en 03-17-19
De: Pete Buttigieg
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How to Be Black
- De: Baratunde Thurston
- Narrado por: Baratunde Thurston
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny yet insightful!
- De Theodore en 02-15-12
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I Wish My Teacher Knew
- How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids
- De: Kyle Schwartz
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill in the blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous; others were heartbreaking; all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe, and supportive place in the classroom. When Schwartz shared her experience online, #IWishMyTeacherKnew became an immediate worldwide viral phenomenon.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not worth the time
- De James M George en 06-29-20
De: Kyle Schwartz
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Letters to a Young Teacher
- De: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A must read for new teachers
- De Santiago en 03-31-10
De: Jonathan Kozol
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Oddly Normal
- One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
- De: John Schwartz
- Narrado por: John Schwartz, Joseph Schwartz
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for the New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: His 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Effect of Parental Caring
- De Wiliam en 01-16-13
De: John Schwartz
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Unspeakable
- The Story of Junius Wilson
- De: Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner
- Narrado por: Corey Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and Black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nuanced look at a complicated case of injustice
- De Karla en 08-06-24
De: Susan Burch, y otros
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The Gift of Adversity
- The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections
- De: Norman E. Rosenthal M.D.
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life. Although we can and should learn from all experiences, both positive and negative best-selling author Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal believes that adversity is by far the best teacher most of us will ever encounter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book ruined by the narrator
- De David C. en 12-07-22
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Faitheist
- How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
- De: Chris Stedman
- Narrado por: Corey Snow
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement - whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens - speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where's the Common Ground ?
- De Susie en 04-29-13
De: Chris Stedman
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Truth Doesn't Have a Side
- My Alarming Discovery About the Danger of Contact Sports
- De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, Mark Tabb, Will Smith - foreword
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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One day in 2002 the 50-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster's body looked to Omalu like the body of a much older man, and the circumstances of his behavior prior to his death were clouded in mystery. But when Omalu cut into Webster's brain, it appeared to be normal. Something didn't add up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly Enlightening
- De Marie en 01-31-20
De: Dr. Bennet Omalu, y otros
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To Obama
- A Diary of a Nation
- De: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrado por: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, MacLeod Andrews, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given 10 handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens - the unfiltered voice of a nation - from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first president to interact daily with constituent mail and to archive it in its entirety. In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama, the letter writers themselves, and the White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years:
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must have audible book or print, it will amaze u
- De 1mercedeb8 en 11-08-18
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Newtown
- An American Tragedy
- De: Matthew Lysiak
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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12/14/2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut We remember the numbers: 20 children and 6 adults, murdered in a place of nurture and trust. We remember the names: Teachers like Victoria Soto, who lost her life protecting her students. A shooter named Adam Lanza. And we remember the questions: Outraged conjecture instantly monopolized the worldwide response to the tragedy, while the truth went missing. Here is the definitive journalistic account of Newtown.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic, heartbreaking, and important
- De DaWoolf en 03-30-14
De: Matthew Lysiak
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Winning from Within
- A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change
- De: Erica Ariel Fox
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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Life is a series of negotiations, whether or not you think of yourself as a negotiator. From seemingly insignificant daily decisions to major life choices, you negotiate every time you aim to persuade, argue over a decision, or resolve a conflict. But as negotiations and leadership expert Erica Ariel Fox reveals, the most important negotiations - the ones that determine the impact of our actions and the quality of our lives - are those we have with ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening is an understatement
- De Lucas en 01-13-19
De: Erica Ariel Fox
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- De: Mychal Denzel Smith
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History through a Young Black Man's Eyes!! Perfect
- De Patricia Hambsch en 08-31-16
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Fully Alive
- Discovering What Matters Most
- De: Timothy Shriver
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. In these pages we meet the individuals who helped him come of age and find a deeper and more meaningful way to see the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening book
- De Robert J. Herman en 06-05-15
De: Timothy Shriver
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The Chaos Imperative
- How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
- De: Ori Brafman, Judah Pollack
- Narrado por: Drew Birdseye
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read!!
- De Kelly Pavich en 05-26-19
De: Ori Brafman, y otros
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Whatever It Takes
- Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
- De: Paul Tough
- Narrado por: Ax Norman
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children, not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aboslutely terrific!
- De Anthony en 09-21-10
De: Paul Tough
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Sign My Name to Freedom
- A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
- De: Betty Reid Soskin
- Narrado por: Betty Reid Soskin
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for Black folk that followed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How she stressed Creole, but I guess it was a badge if honor not being regular black.
- De Satisfied customer en 05-21-24
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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- J. Chong
- 04-17-22
Underwhelming
Libraries aren’t safe spaces for what it’s originally intended. Libraries are used by the unhoused/homeless as a safe space during their open hours. The writer worked at one such library in DC and a tiny portion of the book is about that experience. Most of the book is moralizing written by a less Karen Karen. An article in a newspaper probably would have been sufficient to tell the story. Not to judge the authenticity of the writer or the need for social justice. I just don’t think this was worth either my dough or my time. Most books to be truthful go off on tangents and waste enormous expanses of ink. I can tolerate this with long winded fiction but …
What a waste of my listening time.
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- dunnm02
- 04-06-24
More like Overdone
This book started out great! I learned quite a bit as I gained an insider’s perspective on libraries. It was very interesting! Then something happened—the story began to move away from librarians and library patrons into something that sounded more like the author’s person agenda. The reader drove me crazy as she attempted to use her tone to invoke a certain feeling from the listener. I did not like that at all. I was so ready for this book to be over because it almost became insufferable. This book could have been awesome if it had remained focused on libraries, librarians, library patrons, and legislation regarding libraries.
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