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Amateur, Thomas Page McBee

"Thomas Page McBee is this generation's essential and desperately needed voice on masculinity because he understands the crucial connection between power and trauma that constructs (and deconstructs) gender. This book is written with love and vulnerability about what literally makes a man fight."--Recommended by Chris C., City Lights Publishers




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Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores

One of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best New Books of May. --Recommended by Paul




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Lot

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. - Recommended by Paul




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No-No Boy, John Okada

The first Japanese American novel: a powerful, radical testament to the experiences of Japanese American draft resisters in the wake of World War II. --Recommended by Paul




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Mr. Know-It-All, John Waters

No one knows more about everything-especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling-than John Waters.




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The Impeachers, Brenda Wineapple

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."-Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America - Recommended by Paul




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The Hanging on Union Square, H. T. Tsiang

A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice. --Recommended by Paul




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East Goes West, Younghill Kang

"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature. --Recommended by Paul




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America Is in the Heart, Carlos Bulosan

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo -- Recommended by Paul




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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Written as a son's letter to his mother who cannot read, this novel is raw and achingly beautiful. Vuong's writing is both visceral and sublime with lines that will render you awestruck. - Andy




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More Fun in the New World, John Doe

Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene, with 50 rare photos.




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Troublemaker for Justice, Jacqueline Houtman,Michael G. Long,Walter Naegle

This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.




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The Grave on the Wall, Brandon Shimoda

A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.




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Deer Trails, Kim Shuck

San Francisco's new poet laureate-a Native American and native San Franciscan-explores urban space and the natural world.




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The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.




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United States of Distraction, Mickey Huff,Nolan Higdon

A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and how we can fight back.




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My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER FINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE




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Trick Mirror

From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television. - Recommended by Emma




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The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.




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Flights, Olga Tokarczuk

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)




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The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic-and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.




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Two, including cop, held with illicit liquor

The Ernakulam Excise Special Squad seized 14.50 litres of suspected illicit Indian Made Foreign Liquor and arrested two people, including a policeman,




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Portal launched for Lakshadweep islanders

The Lakshadweep Administration has launched a portal on its website where people who are stranded in Kerala and Mangaluru, and on islands away from th




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e-autos for Kochi: union leaders, drivers meet experts online

Many of them created their first email ids to take part in event




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Evacuation ends a youngster’s nightmare

Felix’s condition deteriorated into pneumonia while he was still in Abu Dhabi




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‘Guruvayur Devaswom donation subject to final outcome of cases’

Division Bench refers petition to Full Bench




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Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline; Special section on adults ages 20 to 49 shows higher cancer incidence and mortality for women than men

The 2019 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds overall cancer death rates continue to decline and cancer incidence dropped in men and remained stable in women. A special section reports on recent cancer trends in younger adults.




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NCI study finds long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism

Findings from a new NCI study of patients who received radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment for hyperthyroidism show an association between the dose of treatment and long-term risk of death from solid cancers, including breast cancer.




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Study quantifies impact of NCI-sponsored trials on clinical cancer care

Nearly half of phase 3 cancer clinical trials carried out by the NCI-sponsored SWOG Cancer Research Network were associated with clinical care guidelines or new drug approvals, a study in JAMA Network Open shows.




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Immunotherapy drug improves outcomes for some children with relapsed leukemia

For children and young adults with certain relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the immunotherapy drug blinatumomab is superior to standard chemotherapy, an NCI-sponsored Children’s Oncology Group trial shows.




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Testing with combined biopsy method improves prostate cancer diagnosis in NCI study

Testing for prostate cancer with a combined biopsy method led to more accurate diagnosis and prediction of the course of the disease in an NCI study. The method is poised to reduce the risk of prostate cancer overtreatment and undertreatment.




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Annual Report to the Nation: Cancer death rates continue to decline

The 2020 Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds overall cancer death rates continue to decline in the United States for all cancer sites combined. A companion study looked at Healthy People 2020 targets for four common cancers.




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In NIH trial, selumetinib shrinks tumors, provides clinical benefit for children with NF1

An NCI clinical trial finds the drug selumetinib improves outcomes for children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), shrinking inoperable tumors called plexiform neurofibromas, reducing pain, and improving function and overall quality of life.




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NCI study provides genetic insights into osteosarcoma in children

A new study offers insight into genetic alterations associated with osteosarcoma, the most common bone tumor of children and adolescents, and the findings have implications for genetic testing of children with osteosarcoma and their families.




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NCI statement on clinical trials during COVID-19 pandemic

Statement from the National Cancer Institute providing information regarding treatment of cancer patients and participation in clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Higher daily step count linked with lower all-cause mortality

In a new study, higher daily step counts were associated with lower mortality risk from all causes. Researchers found that the number of steps taken each day, but not the intensity of the stepping, had a strong association with mortality.




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People from Karnataka stranded abroad to start arriving on May 8

All the 10,823 persons from Karnataka stranded in other countries, who will be arriving in the State from May 8, will be quarantined and compulsorily




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State is ahead of others in scale of testing: CM

‘A record 2,500 tests are being done per million; need for higher level of preparedness’




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Data | Sudden spike in cases results in fastest COVID-19 doubling rate in Punjab in the past week

The State has a low testing rate relative to India's avg despite cases doubling quickly in the last week




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Forest Dept. steps up vigil to prevent poaching

Base camps, check-posts set up as part of the drive




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Coronavirus | U.S. unemployment rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great Depression

As companies have laid off tens of millions, lives have been upended across the country.




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Coronaviurs | China supports WHO-led review of global pandemic response

China said Friday it supports a World Health Organization-led review into the global response to the coronavirus outbreak, but only “after the pandem




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Coronavirus | Virus mutations unlikely to mean stronger strain: experts

The coronavirus' constant mutation is unlikely to have changes its potency or its contagiousness, disease experts say, despite recent research sugge




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Europe, U.S. mark 75 years since end of Second World War

Leaders urge the world to unite in fight against virus




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Pakistan court orders auction of ex-Taliban chief’s property

Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a drone strike in 2016




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Coronavirus | India sends essential medicines to Colombo

This is the fourth consignment




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Coronavirus | China, U.S. commit to implement trade deal despite row over virus

Vice-Premier Liu He speaks to USTR Lighthizer, Mnuchin




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U.S. pulls out Patriot missile batteries from Saudi Arabia

It feels threat from Iran has waned




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Coronaviurs | Trump to get virus tested daily

U.S. President Donald Trump will be tested daily for COVID-19 after one of the president’s military aides tested positive for the infection on Thursda




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U.S. Justice Dept. to drop case against former NSA Flynn

‘His contact with Russian envoy was entirely appropriate’