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Posted on: June 23, 2016

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

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by Victoria Sweet

This portrait of America's last surviving almshouse describes the author's long-time practice at Laguna Honda Hospital, explaining how its extraordinary patients and low-tech focus on "attentive medicine" transformed her views about health care.

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

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This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto

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Girl, Woman, Other

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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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Stones from the River

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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

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A Mind Unraveled

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An African American and Latinx History of the United States

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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

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The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

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Americanah

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If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard

Posted on: October 18, 2019

So You Want to Talk about Race

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Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

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Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey

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The Hate U Give

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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

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Make Trouble

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When They Call You a Terrorist

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News of the World

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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I am Malala

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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The Book of Joy

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The Lovers: Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet

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This Is How It Always Is

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The Windfall

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