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To this day there is argument about what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970. What's certain is that tensions were high. America was at war in Vietnam, the nation was divided in their support of…
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… To this day there is argument about what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970. What's … with care and consideration and provides scrupulous notes about the Kent State Collection at Yale and the Kent State …
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Jeannie Gaffigan is a writer and executive producer of The Jim Gaffigan Show. Both seasons are currently airing on TV Land. She's also a business partner and wife to comedian…
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… her sharing this story. What's the number one best thing about Jeannie's tumor and surgery? She survives. When a … every morning. I can control that. Jeannie's story is about coming to terms over and over again with accepting what …
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New Kid Jordan Banks is back with his friends from Riverdale Academy Day School and they are headed to Paris for their eighth grade school trip. All of the students and teachers are divided into…
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… Jordan's group and the reader and characters learn things about each other they did not know before the trip. The idea … far at Riverdale Academy. I sure hope we find out more about what happens to Jordan, Drew, Liam, Maury, and their …
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Prince was working on THE rock memoir of all time with journalist Dan Piepenbring when he unexpectedly died in April of 2016. Random House held the rights to the book but there wasn't enough content…
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… Rain . The first part of the book is an introduction about how the book came to be, including brainstorming … way you might adjust to a magic eye picture. The pages are about Prince's family and there are expansions and asides …
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"I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been…
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… came from, they realize the information they were given about the planet is incomplete. The first couple of … more nefarious is at work. I've been hearing good things about this one for a while. It's won a Nebula and an Alex …
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This book created by award-winning graphic artist Timothy Goodman is visually stunning. It's a hybrid graphic memoir of when the author moves to Paris in 2019 to take a break from everything and…
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… when in reality they are never forever. This book is about that, one man exposing his heart and soul and the … makes for a very cool combination. Overall, I was curious about the memoir and stuck around for the art and …
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Elena lives in Utuado, Puerto Rico with her Abuela, her Papi, and her younger brother Benito in the shade of a mango tree where she picks fruit for a snack and listens to the coquí frogs each…
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… radio isn't playing music but instead words of warning about a storm - a hurricane. Papi has a plan, and the family … of the story as it progresses. Backmatter includes notes about Hurricane María, cocquíes, and Puerto Rico. Also …
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Erin Entrada Kelly’s second Newbery win has her and her fans (old and new) jumping for joy!
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… new) jumping for joy! The First State of Being is a novel about twelve-year-old Michael dealing with anxiety while … contribution to children’s literature. Read more about all the 2025 ALA Youth Media Award Winners here . …
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Fall is here, school is in full swing and harvest time is now. That means visits to apple orchards, corn mazes and pumpkin patches. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks is the perfect…
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… from the things and people who mean so much to you. It's about making the most of "it's now or never" moments … represent a source of radiant energy. Pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind. Pumpkins talk to me." I could …
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"Ghosting" according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.…
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… fell in love and spent time with each other talking about how to make their cross-continental romance work. They … or do we hide from them? At its core, this is a novel about weathering life's storms by confronting the ghosts that …
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Let me just start by saying this is my current favorite book - I think everyone can learn something about emotions, apologies, and sincerity by reading this epistolary tale filled with classroom…
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… favorite book - I think everyone can learn something about emotions, apologies, and sincerity by reading this … all while simultaneously teaching Jack (and us!) about making amends. … How (not) to say you're sorry …
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Though Ann Leckie's new novel involves larger issues of political intrigue and is set in her Imperial Radch universe, the story is a more intimate one of self-determination and how identity is formed.
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… hir out into the universe. Enae is understandably uneasy about this upheaval, but the chance to have a purpose and a … The question is, can Reet hang onto all that he knows about himself in the face of that knowledge and the pressure …
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Teenage girls across the world begin to develop the ability to shoot electricity out of their hands.
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… is the author of one of the most influential novels about gender dynamics, The Handmaid's Tale (have you seen … and will likely stick with you long after you read about it. … The most shocking novel you'll read all year! …
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Recently, a quiet yet significant change aimed at streamlining the organization and accessibility of the children's and teens' world language book collections has occurred: relabeling and…
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… to advocate for a new collection code to be created? How about picture books? By the end of 2023, Lead Cataloguing … so when Jennifer says "every single book", she's talking about a lot of items across the nine libraries that were … the bilingual materials largely didn't need relabeling, about 7,000 of our Spanish materials were relabeled across …
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This is the thirtieth book in the Agatha Raisin series and I was hoping and praying that M.C.
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… had the privilege to meet her in 2018 and talk to her about Madison and her Agatha Raisin BBC television … Cotswolds is truly inspired. Even more notable, Beating about the Bush is one of the funniest Agatha Raisin mysteries …
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Watercress is this year’s winner of the Caldecott Medal for the illustrations by Jason Chin, a Newbery Honor for the writing by Andrea Wang, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the…
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… it deserves all the accolades. It is an outstanding book about the power of story to connect generations and to heal. … and illustration, and a great book to share and talk about with kids ages 5 & up. … The power of story …
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If you, like me, are feeling the end of summer doldrums a bit, then I've got the book for you. The Passengers by John Marrs takes you on a wild ride and sets you on a collision course with fun! Too…
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… totally self-driving cars have become the norm and are about to become law. In the first brief chapters of the book … book with it's too tidy ending and really began to think about it, I could find the flaws. There are some plot …
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Ask anyone about a notorious shipwreck, and they will more than likely respond with the Titanic disaster of 1912. Yet a mere three years later, another grand ocean liner met an equally disastrous…
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… Ask anyone about a notorious shipwreck, and they will more than likely … Admiralty office, which knew considerable information about the movements of submarines—information not passed on …
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Book list
October - December 2013 Issue
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… on a trip to New York City, and uncovers some ugly secrets about their family. Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names . A … New York, in the late 1960's, is a coming of age story about the friendship between two lonely teenaged boys and … novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Australian author, about two adolescent refugees sent to Australia after the …
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My Dark Vanessa is a debut novel that got a lot of initial buzz when it was first published and is now getting renewed interest from readers on social media. It absolutely deserves every bit of that…
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… would only read it in fits and starts. I was right about the difficult part, but wrong about the pace with which I read. This is a nuanced, painful, …
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Don’t let the mounds of crusty snow or the frigid blasts of winter’s winds fool you: spring is nigh. Much like a cranky groundhog roused from his winter den, the publishing industry is waking up to…
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… She’ll be here from Venice on March 4 to talk about the newest Brunetti novel Trace Elements . Take a break … Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is in town to talk about his timely Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump . …
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Celine Bangura dreams of landing a coveted spot in a prestigious mentorship program. Her grades are tops and her popular conspiracy theory TikTok attracts thousands of followers. Unfortunately, there…
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… make amends, he drives Celine to an informational session about her dream mentorship program and decides he wants to … teen main characters and author Talia Hibbert writes about disability and trauma with care and gentle awareness. …
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Pandemic Fiction | It’s the End of the World: Government Gone Wild, Genetic Engineering, and More Messed-Up Societies | After the Apocalypse: Climate Change, Nuclear Fallout, and More Ways…
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… eBook Audio The Fireman Joe Hill A chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that … Ma A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of … Gather the Daughters Jennie Melamed A smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the …
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Thanks to partnerships between the library and local community organizations, young people in Madison are having more opportunities to connect with authors that are relevant to them.
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… our kids can change the world by choosing what they care about and taking an interest in their community. She also spoke about Tupac Shakur's poem "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," …
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Every year the American Library Association’s Caldecott Committee chooses the "most distinguished American picture book for children" from the previous year. This year’s award-winning books will…
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… decides to visit the place his grandfather told him about – where ocean meets sky – by building a boat (out of … until she wakes in the middle of the night and thinks about the Big Mooncake. Eating just a little each night, the …
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