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July-September 2022 Issue
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… My Father, and Me . Carvan, Tabitha. This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving … Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living . McGrath, Ben. Riverman: An American Odyssey …
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January - March 2025 Issue
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… April. Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father . Brathwaite, Lester Fabian. Rage: On … Across Time . Moore, Marcus J. High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul . Moss, Sarah. My Good Bright Wolf: A …
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The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards at …
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… and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians and Alaska Natives. Selected titles … Americans Librarians Association (APALA) - The Truth About Dragons , written by Julie Leung, illustrated by Hanna … Elana K. Arnold wins the Young Adult category. Read more about all 2024 winners and honors in the American Library …
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October - December 2024 Issue
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… When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future . … Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women . Mithers, Carol Lynn. Rethinking Rescue: Dog …
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… school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy … seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her …
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Alfred Lunt | August Derleth | Carrie Catt | Charles and John Ringling | Eric Heiden | Frank Lloyd Wright | George F.
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… M. Schroth. 818.5209D446s Remembering Derleth: All About Augie, 1909-1971 by Bill Dyke. 813.54D446zd Walden … Appleton My Turn at the Bully Pulpit: Straight Talk About the Things That Drive Me Nuts by Greta Van Susteren and …
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January - March 2023 Issue
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… If I Survive You . A collection of linked stories about a Jamaican family who moved to Miami in the 1970s and … mother, who was an extraordinary person, and also writes about writing and storytelling. Ebook Millet, Lydia. …
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The big book news for June circles around one day and one book: June 3, the day that Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Atmosphere hits shelves. The author
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… Publisher’s Weekly calls ‘haunting and worthwhile story about cruelty, grace, love, and what it means to live … a Vacation Marvel, Katie Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet Mottley, Leila The Girls Who Grew …
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What a discussion this book makes. One mention of the Maine Hermit and people are either outraged or enthralled. I'm relatively enthralled, not with the Maine Hermit per se, but with the details…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… living all alone. The author shares historical information about hermits, from anchorites affiliated with churches to … where I will leave this and you can make your own decision about the book and the Maine Hermit. … The cost of solitude …
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July - September 2014 Issue
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… who had been interned there, and also hopes to learn more about his own family history. Mengestu, Dinaw. All Our … The Ballad of a Small Player . This is a story about a British lawyer living in Hong Kong, who squanders his … be. Townsend, Jacinda. Saint Monkey . This is a story about the friendship between two black teenaged girls in a …
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The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards at …
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration written by … and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians and Alaska Natives. Selected titles …
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July - September 2015 Issue
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… . Bellow, Saul. There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction . Bissonnette, Zac. The Great … For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice . Schwartz, A. …
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Best of the Best | Next Level | Another Level | Nonfiction
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… June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses … Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during … similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until …
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In the current romance publishing climate, it’s not unusual for ‘debut’ authors to have multiple titles in print through self-publishing houses before they’re picked up by conventional publishers.…
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… but unlike a lot of explicit romances, Work For It is all about building full-developed characters, helped along by … Griff: “Would be more terrifying if you didn’t talk about auras”) lightens the heavy angst-ridden moments, …
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Every month there are new titles purchased for the Too Good to Miss collections at our libraries. If you're not familiar with TGTM (as we call it here in library-world), it's a special collection of…
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… to terms with what happened to her in London. Let's Talk about Aging Parents: A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems … if chronically online New Yorkers are telling the truth about themselves to their prospective partners. …
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October - December 2014 Issue
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… social and political upheaval, and absorbing new ideas about the roles of women in society. Fishman, Boris. A … tapes and typing up news stories. Ryan, Donal. The Thing About December . This Irish novel has a chapter for each …
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Though slavery ended in 1865, the importation of Africans as slaves was outlawed nearly fifty years earlier in 1808 with an act of Congress banning the practice. The truth, like most everything in…
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… of slavery and the close ties to Africa would bring about the decline in Africatown’s legacy both from outside … to see history buried. It’s obvious Raines is passionate about the Clotilda story and the history lurking in Alabama’s …
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January - March 2020 Issue
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… Poems . Betz-Hamilton, Axton. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen … Under Siege . Vanasco, Jeannie. Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir . Weingarten, Gene. One …
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The Madison Public Library is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors, appointed for three year terms by the Mayor of Madison. The Board's authority to oversee the policies and direction of the…
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… from more than 60 citizens who expressed what they value about the services provided by Madison Public Library. Among …
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October - December 2014 Issue
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… . Carey, Benedict. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why it Happens . Catlos, Brian A. … Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves . Nordberg, Jenny. The Underground Girls of …
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July-September 2021 Issue
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… Katherine. Early Morning Riser . In this offbeat comedy about love, family, and community, a free-spirited elementary … on his adventurous life, and also sets out to learn more about the man he killed. eBook , eAudio VanderMeer, Jeff. … A hard-working young woman living in Portland, Oregon is about to buy the decrepit house she’s been renting when her …
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… Jinwoo Chong A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his … by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to …
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It was perhaps inevitable that the same year that sports stopped cold in its tracks, The Best American Sports Writing would mark its last year.
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… “Patriot Act” for Vanity Fair speaks far more volumes about how Asian immigrants, and particularly Asian women, are treated in the US than it does about the peculiarities of Robert Kraft’s taste in personal …
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Milla Vane takes the reader deeper into the realms she has created with her second in her Gathering of Dragons fantasy/romance series and I couldn't be more thrilled. This is both a tightly written,…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… draw you in and leave you feeling just a little better about humanity by book's end. Something we all can use … of how a cover like this is created, you can read all about it here . … Going to extremes …
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We all felt it, the dramatic shift in early March, 2020, when all of the sudden the world halted for COVID-19. But for so many community groups and leaders things did not stop, in fact their quick…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… While MMSD was hosting food pick ups, WYC still worried about the barriers. “So many of our families are essential … and luxuries around us. We wanted Look Forward to be about embracing small things. Like the sidewalk in front of …
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