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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hands of government officials.
Mott Haven Library/NYPL, 321 East 140th Street:
Jan 3, 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2026
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1/3: Book giveaways
1/10: Chaps: Forward-3, Pgs 1-70
1/17: Chaps 4-7, Pgs 71-130
1/24: Chaps 8-13, Pgs 131-207
1/31: Chaps, 14-end, Pgs 208-end
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1/6: Chaps: Forward-3, Pgs 1-70
1/13: Chaps 4-7, Pgs 71-130
1/20: Chaps 8-13, Pgs 131-207
1/27: Chaps, 14-end, Pgs 208-end
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Loca by Alejandro Heredia
Loca follows one daring year in the lives of young people living at the edge of their own patience and desires. With expansive grace, it reveals both the grueling conditions that force people to migrate and the possibility of friendship as home when family, nations, and identity groups fall short.
In-person: 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7
Zoom: 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3
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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Set in Louisiana, this novel is set against the backdrop of a small Cajun community during the Jim Crow Era. Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store, which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to death.
In-person: 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11
Zoom: 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7
My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel by Natalie Guerrero
An electric coming-of-age novel that explores grief, family, sexuality, and love as an ambitious young woman from Washington Heights tries to make it on Broadway—by a striking new voice in fiction.
In-person: 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16
Zoom: 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12