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Kaleidoscopic cover art of Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel classic, KINDRED. Text on the cover: National Bestseller. Foreword by Janelle Monáe
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Image of a 3D hardcover mockup of Deni Elliott’s CATCHING SIGHT against a pale peach background with the following text: International Guide Dog Day Giveaway! Win a copy of Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself. Fill out the “Catching Sight Giveaway” form for a chance to get a copy!
Black and white photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a podium. The following quote from his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is printed in white and yellow on the photo: “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Photo still from the TV series THE PITT. A patient’s hand in a hospital bed holding a copy of James Baldwin’s NOTES OF A NATIVE SON whose cover is a black cover with red, white, and blue lettering. An orderly is pushing the patient’s bed.