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Make a Difference, Be the Change

These titles for adults and young ones contain inspiration and/or information on how, be it small or large, to make a positive difference, be a changemaker, and have impact in your community and for yourself

Pima County Public Library

37 items

  • Viral Justice

    How We Grow the World We Want

    Benjamin, Ruha
    I strongly recommend this if you feel like making an impact or meaningful change is overwhelming. This is a powerful book that shows how even small acts or decisions can still make collective impact and a positive difference.
    BookPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022] — 305.0973 B4385v 2022
  • How We Show Up

    Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

    Birdsong, Mia
    BookNew York, NY : Hachette Go, 2020. — 307 B5329h 2020
  • I highly recommend this book - it gave me a new perspective on what we know (and as a society had accepted) as "grind culture", rooted in capitalism and white supremacy. "Rest Is Resistance is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in…
    BookNew York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022. — 155.2 H4392r 2022
  • Chingona

    Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

    Zaragoza-Petty, Alma
    eBookFortress Press, 2022
  • BookBoston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2020. — 811.608 Al272L 2020
  • Emergent Strategy

    Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

    brown, adrienne maree
    BookChico, CA : AK Press, [2017] — 303.4 B8121e 2017
  • The Wake Up

    Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change

    Kim, Michelle Mijung
    BookNew York : Go, Hachette Books, 2023. — 303.372 K5605w 2023
  • As Long as Grass Grows

    the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock

    Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
    BookBoston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019] — 970.00497 G396a 2019
  • Social Justice Parenting

    How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-racist, Justice-minded Kids in An Unjust World

    Baxley, Traci
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Wave, [2021] — 649.1 B332s 2021
  • Hope in the Dark

    Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    Solnit, Rebecca
    BookChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2016. — 303.4 So46h 2016
  • People, Power, Change

    Organizing for Democratic Renewal

    Ganz, Marshall, 1943-
    BookNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024] — 361.8 G1594p 2024
  • Be the Change

    the Future Is in Your Hands

    Moyle, Eunice
    BookLake Forest, CA : Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of The Quarto Group, [2018] — 303.4 M875b 2018 CHILD
  • How I Resist

    Activism and Hope for a New Generation

    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, [2018] — 320.08309 H8301 2018 TEEN