GOLDEN
ACT Contemporary Theatre presents GOLDEN from April 26 to May 11, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show. Annotations provided by publisher unless otherwise noted.
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Made Whole
To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, New York Times bestselling financial educator Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche has an invaluable 10-step action plan.
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The Yellow House
Describes the author’s upbringing in a New Orleans East shotgun house as the unruly 13th child of a widowed mother, tracing a century of family history and the impact of class, race and Hurricane Katrina on her sense of identity. (NoveList)
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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry's play explores the complex dynamics of a working-class Black American family living in 1950s Chicago as they disagree on how to spend their late relative's insurance money.
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The Great Divide
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. (NoveList)
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All About Love
Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the author examines the role of love in our personal and professional lives and how it can be used to end struggles between individuals, communities, and societies.
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The Will to Change
In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing that an emotionally rewarding inner life holds the key to successful intimate relationships.
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Brown Girl in the Ring
A fantasy novel of urban decay whose heroine turns to Afro-Caribbean magic to help a boyfriend escape gangs. The gangs are enforcing a contract to produce a human heart for transplant, even if the boyfriend has to kill for it. The setting is a futuristic Toronto.
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Hustlers
Destiny and Ramona, two erotic dancers working at the same club devise a plan (with help from their colleagues) to keep themselves financially lucrative when the 2008 financial crisis impacts business from their Wall Street clientèle.
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Inside Job
Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. (NoveList)
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The City We Became
Takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars. (NoveList)
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