Title:
The Vagina Monologues
Author:
Eve Ensler
Genres:
General Literature
Summary (from publisher):
…explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, vaginal care, menstrual periods, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.
Tea/Coffee:
Dong Quai tea
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Title:
Milk and Honey
Author:
Rupi Kaur
Genres:
Poetry
Summary (from publisher):
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genres:
Kids Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
At Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, young Sara Crewe enjoys the friendship of her classmates and the staff—much to stern Miss Minchin’s disdain. When Sara is unexpectedly impoverished, she is forced to become a servant under Miss Minchin’s control. To escape her dreary life, Sara imagines herself as a princess, and her experiences soon teach her that being a princess on the inside counts more than any outward expression of royalty.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Janet Mock
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction, Biography
Summary (from publisher):
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The Fifth Season
Author:
N.K. Jemisin
Genres:
Epic Fantasy
Summary (from publisher):
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Haruki Murakami
Genres:
Japanese Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Tayari Jones
Genres:
African American Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The Black Flamingo
Author:
Dean Atta
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
As he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs—and the Black Flamingo is born.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Ceremony
Author:
Leslie Marmon Silko
Genres:
Native American Literature
Summary (from publisher):
Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Between the World and Me
Author:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genres:
African American Biography
Summary (from publisher):
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it?
Tea/Coffee:
Mocha using this medium dark roast and melting this chocolate in it
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Coffee, Tea, and Fiction, please 