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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Get Empowered
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Nadia Telsey, Lauren R Taylor
Sabena Stark
, February 01, 2024
When the young Nadia Telsey went shopping for jeans in a Brooklyn thrift store and was manipulated into removing her pants by a male employee who was pretending to work in the try-on area, it took her too long to realize something was very wrong. During the ensuing years, Nadia studied and began teaching martial arts and developed a program she called, Self-Defense From the Inside Out. Many years later, after providing training to tens of thousands of students, she teamed up with self-defense trainer Lauren R. Taylor to write and publish a comprehensive workbook for women and other vulnerable groups in the program of Empowerment Self-Defense. Research has shown that learning these methods has been strongly effective in people’s lives. Get Empowered is about “… protecting ourselves, including our inner selves, from harassment, abuse, and assault… to reduce the barriers that can make speaking up difficult, to gain skills for self-protection, and to [help us] create bigger, more authentic lives.” Readers will learn to: “Defy the messages telling you to be small and passive, better understand your choices and behavior, gain skills to value and advocate for yourself, make choices that will help you get more of what you want and deserve, and live your life feeling more safe, confident, and free.” Get Empowered is a valuable gift to give yourself and to your loved ones, offering skills that will keep on giving for a lifetime.
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Bryan Stevenson
Sabena Stark
, April 15, 2016
The truly amazing thing about this book is that these stories are real and are happening today and not in some fictional past. Get ready for your view of our world to be blown open and for your heart to be pierced by what you discover. Until what has been so hidden is revealed, we have no hope to heal our country. African American and Latino communities, both children and adults, have been so long abused by the pernicious systems of racism that are welded into the foundations of criminal justice that most white Americans take the current state of racial inequity to be both normal and appropriate. And those of us who have had the privilege to remain unaware and unaffected are silent co-conspirators in sustaining this arrangement of abuse. Thank you, Bryan Stevenson, teacher and warrior for the vulnerable, for raising up a bright lamp on the road toward racial justice.
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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
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Debra Gwartney
Sabena Stark
, May 31, 2012
With powerful storytelling and unrelenting honesty, Gwartney tells the story of her battle to bring her runaway daughters home and out of harm's way. She doesn't make herself the hero of her narrative but has written a compelling book that stayed with me long after the ending.
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