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United We Read: Celebrating American Unity and Diversity

Books that show the cultural tapestry of America today.

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Palo Alto City Library

21 items

  • Good Soil

    the Education of An Accidental Farmhand

    Chu, Jeff,
    Book, 2025New York : Convergent, [2025] — 070.92 CHU
  • Before Elvis

    the African American Musicians Who Made the King

    Lauterbach, Preston,
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2025. — 781.6408 LAUTERBA
  • Medgar & Myrlie

    Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

    Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, [2024] — 323.092 REID
  • Life Span

    Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge

    Giles, Molly,
    Book, 2024Santa Rosa, CA : WTAW Press, 2024 — 814.6 GILES
  • At the Edge of Empire

    a Family's Reckoning With China

    Wong, Edward, 1972-
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC ; [2024] — 951.51 WONG
  • Coming Out as Dalit

    a Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System

    Dutt, Yashica,
    Book, 2024Boston : Beacon Press, [2024] — 305.5688 DUTT
  • Book, 2024[New York] : Harper Select, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC, 2024. — 791.4309 VALDERRAMA
  • The Editor

    How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

    Franklin, Sara B.,
    Book, 2024New York : Atria Books, 2024. — 070.5092 JONES FRANKLIN
  • Legacy

    a Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine

    Blackstock, Uché,
    Book, 2024[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — 610.92 BLACKSTOCK
  • The Small and the Mighty

    Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

    McMahon, Sharon, 1949-
    Book, 2024New York : Thesis, [2024] — 920.073 MCMAHON
  • Book, 2024New York : One World, [2024] — 070.92 COATES
  • Above the Noise

    My Story of Chasing Calm

    DeRozan, DeMar, 1989-
    Book, 2024New York : Harmony, [2024] — 796.323 DEROZAN
  • American to the Backbone

    the Life of James W.C. Pennington, the Fugitive Slave Who Became One of the First Black Abolitionists

    Webber, Christopher
    Book, 2011New York : Pegasus Books, 2011. — 323.4 P414w
  • American Values

    Lessons I Learned From My Family

    Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1954-
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — 973.922 KENNEDY
  • Proud Shoes

    the Story of An American Family

    Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985
    Book, 1999Boston : Beacon Press, 1999. — 306.8508 MURRAY