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This gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture book shows the unique ecosystem of a whale fall. A massive blue whale dies, and her decomposing body nourishes various marine life, from scavengers to…
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… 2025 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. Read more about all the 2025 ALA Youth Media Award Winners here . … In …
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Last week I posted about the lighter reading I did over the holiday vacation, but that was only half the picture. Here's the darker side.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Last week I posted about the lighter reading I did over the holiday vacation, …
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Resource
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… Jobs & Careers Subject Guide For more information about where to find helpful resources online or in the …
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Book club kit
A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production…
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… A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a …
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In Japan, a teenage girl is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with letters in Japanese and French, wash ashore in a metal…
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… is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with …
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The Wisconsin Book Festival is the state’s premier literary event and it's starting soon. The festival will feature representative voices from our communities and spark conversations from a wide…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… of perspectives. At the Fall Celebration, you'll learn about the effect anxiety is having on our society, discuss …
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Literary Hub is a great site with much, much great book content. But my favorite thing about it, I'll admit, is its offshoot site CrimeReads.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… with much, much great book content. But my favorite thing about it, I'll admit, is its offshoot site CrimeReads. There …
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As this thriller opens Amelia Winn is leaving her shift as a trauma nurse when she's hit by a car. That accident leaves her profoundly deaf. In the immediate aftermath of the accident and the…
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… in and of himself), live on their own and she's hopeful about a job interview. Her job interview is derailed when she …
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Written and illustrated by Chinese-Americans whose parents came from China and raised them in the United States, I am Golden celebrates the heritage behind the Chinese-American experience. With…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… book with additional photographs and backstories about the author and illustrator at the end. … Through the …
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Storytime starter
Hop down the bunny trail and into this playful storytime all about our fuzzy cottontail friends.
Last updated 4 months 1 week ago
… down the bunny trail and into this playful storytime all about our fuzzy cottontail friends. … Bunnies …
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Wendy Davies is driving along a lake road with her two younger brothers Michael and John when their car skids off a bridge and into the water. One of Wendy's brothers is missing after the accident -…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… bordering on belligerent. She doesn't want to talk about what happened or what she thinks happened, so her …
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Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the…
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… whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of …
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What do you get when you combine a snuggle and a tickle? That’s a snickle! And what do you get when you read Give Me a Snickle! by Alisha Sevigny? Just about the best feeling ever and the cutest…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… when you read Give Me a Snickle! by Alisha Sevigny? Just about the best feeling ever and the cutest board book around! …
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From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American…
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… the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and …
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Collection
The Seed Library is a self-sustaining seed exchange program. Choose from flower, herb and produce seeds then "check out" seeds for at-home gardening. After growing and harvesting the vegetables…
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… lists to use alongside your seeds, as a way to learn more about a variety of topics related to different kinds of …
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Afi Tekple’s wedding is a rousing success in spite of the fact that the groom isn’t present. But that is to be expected of a young and wealthy businessman whose travels take him far from home on a…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… isn’t right. When she married, she had heard the whispers about ‘the woman’, a Liberian who Eli’s family loathe and are …
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Kids app
How do you breathe new life into a picture book that’s over a decade old? Turn it into an app!
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… and/or videos from each location, and more information about the classical art pieces referenced in the text. A …
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This book gave me goosebumps. Setting off on a quest through two different forests, to discover two different, but equally enchanting truths about dragons, a little boy’s adventures come lavishly to…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… to discover two different, but equally enchanting truths about dragons, a little boy’s adventures come lavishly to …
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As we've all hunkered down over this past year there have been a few bright spots in our social network. One of the brightest (and most surprising to many) was the instagram posts that veteran…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… the need to connect, he began to record short video posts about life in quarantine. Leslie's charming, …
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Kids app
Visit seven Sago Mini friends in each of their apartments and discover what they like to do at home! From cooking and gardening to building and exercise, each friend has their own favorite activity.
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… and enjoy watching your child make their own decisions about what to do. … Sago Mini Apartment …
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If you need a break from the damp, chill, gray days of early Wisconsin spring (and at this point, who doesn't?), here's your chance to escape to hot, sunny 1950s Tangier in Christine Mangan's…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… her move to Tangier in Morocco. Though Alice is uneasy about the move, she convinces herself that a complete change …
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Clark introduces readers to a new fantasy world in this latest novella and I'm so here for it.
Eveen is a an undead assassin. When she died she was offered a chance at an undead life - though she has…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… victim - one that throws everything she thought she knew about her role and world into question. She's got until …
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What if instead of canceling NASA's Apollo 18 mission, Nixon had instead turned the funding question over to the military? And what if that military had decided that the mission was critical in order…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… candidate turned intelligence officer, arrives in Houston about a month before Apollo 18 is scheduled to take off. He's …
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Book club kit
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced …
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Did you know the Wisconsin Book Festival goes on all year round (and not just on one weekend in October)? If not, take heed. The Fest hosts author events throughout the year and the next one is…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… night. The author is Adam Minter who'll be talking about his newest book, Secondhand : Travels in the New Global …
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