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Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

by Kim Brooks

Published: 2018-08-21

Hardcover: 256 pages

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"It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." ?Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"Brooks's own personal experience provides the narrative thrust for the book ? she writes unflinchingly about her ...

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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

by Jose Antonio Vargas

Published: 2018-09-18

Hardcover: 256 pages

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER“This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.”  —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow“l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.” —Amy Tan, New York...

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Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance

by Reggie L. Williams

Published: 2014-09-16

Paperback: 196 pages

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer publicly confronted Nazism and anti-Semitic racism in Hitler's Germany. The Reich's political ideology, when mixed with theology of the German Christian movement, turned Jesus into a divine representation of the ideal, racially pure Aryan and allowed race-hate to become...

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The Summer of Broken Things

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes a haunting novel about friendship and what it really means to be a family in the face of lies and betrayal.Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-...

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The Making of an American Family

by Elizabeth Kay Danielson Ph.D.

Published: 2018-06-09

Paperback: 278 pages

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Part history, part memoir, part loving tribute to her parents and grandparents, Elizabeth Danielson has created a portrait of her family from the 1600s to the present. She weaves together letters written by her grandfather and father, stories written by her grandmother, journals kept by her mother, oral...

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The Abominable: A Novel

by Dan Simmons

Published: 2014-12-02

Paperback: 688 pages

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ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The TerrorIt's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the ...

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El murmullo de las abejas (Spanish Edition)

by Sofía Segovia

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 496 pages

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En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo… Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia Morales abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de...

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Ancient Egypt: The Egypt of Nefertiti (Volume 2)

by T. D. van Basten

Published: 2015-12-11

Paperback: 84 pages

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Nefertiti's Mysterious Origins For centuries, the beautiful, mysterious Queen Nefertiti, has captured our imaginations. We do not know very much about the woman's origins, or her demise, which only adds to her mysterious appeal. What we do know, however, is that she was the wife of one...

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City of Ghosts

by Victoria Schwab

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost.So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to ...

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3751 Daisy Street

by Kitt Elliott

Published: 2017-11-02

Paperback: 475 pages

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Dorothy Jean Hayes want the perfect life and for her that includes having a man ... a White man. After several failed relationships she finally meets what she believes is the man of her dreams: a self-styled, back alley street fighter whose color is close enough to Dorothy's idea of perfect to blind...