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Books to inspire hope (Adults) - Summer Adventure 2025

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  • Hope Dies Last

    Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

    Weisman, Alan,
    A profile of creative people making the Earth and their communities better around the world. Meet chefs, scientists, civil servants, and more who will inspire you.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Dutton, [2025] — 304.28 WEISMAN
  • The Kitchen Without Borders

    Recipes and Stories From Refugee and Immigrant Chefs

    Eat Offbeat (Catering service),
    Chefs at Eat Offbeat, a catering service staffed by refugee and immigrant chefs, share their inspiring stories and delicious recipes.
    Book, 2021New York : Workman Publishing, [2021] — 641.59 EAT
  • The first step towards a better future is imagining it. In this radical and exciting book, Ruha Benjamin gives us the tools to do just that.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — 153.3 BENJAMIN
  • Author Becky Chambers is beloved for her optimistic and imaginative sci-fi novels. In this one, a tea-delivering monk bonds with a robot on a post-apocalyptic earth.
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2021 — Science Fiction CHAMBERS,B
  • The Serviceberry

    Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall,
    Native American Potowatomi botanist and writer Robin W. Kimmerer draws inspiration from Indigenous traditions and nature to explore how we might create a gift economy based on generosity and sustainability, not transaction, consumption, and scarcity.
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024 — 581.63097 KIMMERER
  • Beyond Survival

    Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement

    An in-depth exploration of the transformative justice movement and of new ideas and strategies for how communities can keep people safe and help them thrive.
    Book, 2020Chico, CA : AK Press, [2020] — 364.68 BEYOND
  • Good Talk

    a Memoir in Conversations

    Jacob, Mira, 1973-
    Indian-Amerian writer Mira Jacob was alarmed when her mixed-race son started asking her questions about racism. What was she supposed to say? She figured it out and documented her experience in this hilarious and moving graphic memoir.
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : Random House, [2018] — 813.6 JACOB
  • Celebrated trans writer, musician, and performance artist Vivek Shraya is always changing. In this essay, she examines that impulse, tying it to her Hindu upbringing, her love of Madonna, her adventurous fashion sense, and more. In doing so, she…
    Book, 2022[Toronto] : Penguin, 2022 — 814.6 SHRAYA
  • A middle-aged woman in Beiruit, regarded as "unnecessary" thanks to her unmarried status, contemplates her life as a new year dawns, finding that she has more friends and more value than she ever imagined.
    Book, 2013New York : Grove Press, [2013] — Fiction ALAMEDDINE,R