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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…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Akhavan delivers sharply humorous tales in her new memoir about what it means to be a woman on the rise. Live …
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"When Grandma walks to her special garden, we know to follow.This is the place where wonder grows and stories blossom."
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Award winner. A letter to the readers at the end tells about how this book was created and notes that the creators …
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Book club kit
From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it. … …
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Anyone who's known me for a while as a reader knows I can dig my feet in when a book becomes too popular. If I read a book before it became hugely popular, great. But if it's become hugely popular? I…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… I'm being honest here (and why else would I start talking about this?), I'll admit I like to be the discoverer of the …
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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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In the second of her new series set in 1920s New York former con artist Elizabeth Miles helps a friend whose husband has died (killed by a streetcar). As though grieving her suddenly dead husband…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… remember?), Elizabeth suspects there's a lot not right about Endicott and with the help of her almost-fiancee …
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The American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, audio books, and media for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards at…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… beginning reader book - See the Cat: Three Stories about a Dog written by David LaRocelle & illustrated by Mike …
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MADreads post
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…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… breaking up with him. When Emma sees a social media post about Justin, she immediately slides into his DMs since she …
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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…
Last updated 1 month 1 week ago
… 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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Unicorns are supposed to be all smiles, glitter and rainbows. And Kevin’s days are “filled with …Magical Awesomeness” Until the morning Kevin wakes up on the floor. Something feels not quite right,…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Finally, Kevin lets go and expresses his actual feelings about his horrible day. And once he allows himself to do …
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This is a touching story that starts with a day that is not like the others. Eleven-year-old Sophie Winslow is best friends with her neighbor, eighty-eight-year-old Sophie Gershowitz. Eleven-year-old…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… working librarian, I felt a pang of joy and grief reading about this. I'm not sure how much either of those resources …
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Caldecott medalist Michaela Goade's new picture book is a gorgeously illustrated tale of family and land that warmed my heart and felt so cozy.
On an island at the edge of the sea, a young girl…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… note packed with information, Michaela Goade talks about how she too grew up on an island at the edge of the sea …
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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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The graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road" takes the reader on a journey that connects the mind and body with an infinite past of cultural heritage. Chioma, a…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… her new path. Spoiler alert: I thought this novel was about zombies, but it's not. It's still extremely spooky and …
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A heroine who just wants to read and works in a bookstore? How is that not going to be added to my tbr list? But books that are added to my list are often bumped by the next items added. Thus we have…
Last updated 3 months 3 weeks ago
… the wealthy man, she's suddenly a part of a large family about which she never knew. Suddenly she has brothers and …
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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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Amal is the smartest student in her Pakistani village with the best grades, highest scores, and a desire to become a teacher. Her family is in crisis after the birth of a fifth …
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… servitude and domestic life and includes an afterward about the author's inspiration, Malala Yousafzai, and …
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Storytime starter
Trains, tuk tuks, cars, rocketships... enjoy this storytime all about the different ways we travel from place to place.
Last updated 4 months 1 week ago
… tuk tuks, cars, rocketships... enjoy this storytime all about the different ways we travel from place to place. … …
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Warm-weather nature explorations may feel a long way off. But that doesn’t mean that junior naturalists are entirely without opportunities to learn more about the environments around us.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… are entirely without opportunities to learn more about the environments around us. At Home with the Beaver …
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Books that involve gangs of problem solving kids, hijinks and hilarity are perennially popular at my house. I checked this new book out because it looked like it fit that bill, and boy did it ever.…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Or eaten. Or something! At its core, this graphic novel is about a group of super sleuthing students working on projects …
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One was killed by drowning. A few succumbed to grief. At least one fell and broke his neck, while others went by hanging, or in battle, or were stabbed. Some deaths were quite singular—a ‘burning…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… , is in some ways similar to the plays Harkup writes about: a little lighthearted, shocking at times, and …
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Book club kit
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the …
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Christine Mangan's first novel Tangerine had Patricia Highsmith vibes. Fair commentary. A description even more true I'd say in this, her sophomore effort in which author Frances "Frankie" Croy…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… poor reviews and Frankie's disastrous public meltdown about one of them landed her in a sanitarium. Her best friend …
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Richard Osman scored a massive hit with his 2020 mystery The Thursday Murder Club, spawning equally successful sequels and earning a big Hollywood adaption, due out next year. So when Osman announced…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Would it carry much of the same humor readers loved about the earlier books? Could Osman carry off another set of …
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Book list
July - September 2023 Issue
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men . Biggs, Joanna. A Life of One’s Own: …
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