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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city Author: Desmond, Matthew.
Even in the most desolate areas of American cities, evictions used to be rare. But today, most poor renting families are spending more than half of their income on housing, and eviction has become ordinary, especially for single mothers. In this book, Desmond provides a ground-level view of one of the most urgent issues facing America today. Poverty, by America Author: Desmond, Matthew. In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.

Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI Author: Harari, Yuval N.
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.

Bad company: private equity and the death of the American dream Author: Greenwell, Megan, 294 pages
Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities and pulls back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests and destroying their sense of security.

Invisible rulers: the people who turn lies into reality Author: DiResta, Renée 436 pages
By revealing the machinery and dynamics of the interplay between influencers, algorithms, and online crowds, DiResta illustrates the way propagandists deliberately undermine belief in the fundamental legitimacy of institutions that make society work. Their work is driven by a simple maxim: if you make it trend, you make it true. DiResta predicts the consequences and offers ways for leaders to adapt and fight back.

Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Fans of the hit musical Hamilton may know Eliza Hamilton only as the loyal partner of the nation’s founding father, but this biography reveals her full, dynamic story. It follows her early years, the ups and downs of her married life with Alexander Hamilton—including the scandal and his tragic death—and then her courageous decades of preserving his legacy and launching one of New York’s first orphan asylums.

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote Author: Elaine Weiss Nashville, August 1920.
Thirty-five states have approved the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote; one last state–Tennessee–is needed for women’s voting rights to be the law of the land. The suffragists face vicious opposition from politicians, clergy, corporations, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”–women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the nation’s moral collapse. And in one hot summer, they all converge for a confrontation, replete with booze and blackmail, betrayal and courage.

Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books Author: Kirsten Miller
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in their tiny hometown of Troy, Georgia. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she has actually read. What Lula doesn’t know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula’s library with banned books. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways.

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