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• Summer Adventure 2025 | Alameda County Library

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  Build your own Summer Adventure at AC Library from June 1 to August 1. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries.

• Hope Dies Last

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

  Weisman, Alan,

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  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.

• The Kitchen Without Borders

  Recipes and Stories From Refugee and Immigrant Chefs

  Eat Offbeat (Catering service),

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  Chefs at Eat Offbeat, a catering service staffed by refugee and immigrant chefs, share their inspiring stories and delicious recipes.

• Imagination

  a Manifesto

  Benjamin, Ruha,

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  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.

• A Psalm for the Wild-built

  Chambers, Becky,

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  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.

• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  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.

• Beyond Survival

  Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement

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  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.

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  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.

• People Change

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unnecessary Woman

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  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.