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Relish, Graphic NovelMy Life in the Kitchen

by Knisley, Lucy
Graphic Novel, 2013
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Sabrina, Graphic Novel

by Drnaso, Nick
Graphic Novel, 2018
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Added Mar 08, 2019

If You Ask Me, BookEssential Advice From Eleanor Roosevelt

by Roosevelt, Eleanor
Book, 2018
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Added Mar 06, 2019

The End of the World and Beyond, BookContinues The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts: Being An Absolutely Accurate Autobiographical Account of My Follies, Fortune & Fate Written by Himself

by Avi
Book, 2019
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Added Mar 06, 2019

Does It Fart? : The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence, eBook

by Caruso, Nick
eBook, 2018
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Added Feb 19, 2019

How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Book

by Jemisin, N. K.
Book, 2018
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Added Feb 19, 2019

Around America to Win the Vote, BookTwo Suffragists, A Kitten, and 10,000 Miles

by Rockliff, Mara
Book, 2016
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Added Feb 19, 2019

The Port Chicago 50, BookDisaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

by Sheinkin, Steve
Book, 2014
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Added Jan 16, 2019

Island Beneath the Sea, BookA Novel

by Allende, Isabel
Book, 2010
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Added Jan 11, 2019

India Remembered, Book

by Hicks, Pamela
Book, 2007
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Added Dec 04, 2018

The Girls Who Went Away, BookThe Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

by Fessler, Ann
Book, 2006
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Added Dec 04, 2018

When the Beat Was Born, BookDJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

by Hill, Laban Carrick
Book, 2013
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Added Dec 04, 2018

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I loved this book. I love anything that celebrates early hip hop, granted, but this is a special one. The art in this illustrated biography of DJ Kool Herc, AKA Clive Campbell, fits the cool, chunky beats the man laid down at parties in the Bronx. The story of an evolving art form and one of its pioneers is expertly told, but much more text heavy than I expected. School Library Journal is on target with its age range 3rd to 5th grade, but Publishers Weekly skewed a little young. The story is fast-paced and engrossing- I would love to have seen the text spread out across more pages with more fabulous illustrations by Coretta Scott King & Steptoe winner Taylor!

Pale Rider, BookThe Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Spinney, Laura
Book, 2017
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Added Nov 14, 2018

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I’ll admit- I’m obsessed with the 1918 influenza epidemic. I devour any and every book written about the subject and conduct my own research in my free time. Laura Spinney’s treatment of the epidemic comes at its 100th anniversary, but many mysteries remain to be unraveled including accurate estimates of the death toll. There has been a small explosion of publishing on the subject; Spinney’s stands out from the in its purposefully global perspective. The vast majority of research and analysis has been in the United States and Europe even though statistics available shortly after the last wave of flu receded evidenced a much greater death toll in South America, Africa, and south Asia. Spinney traces the magnified impacts to dramatic social upheaval such as the independence movement in India and the rise of apartheid in South Africa. In pushing past the medical aspects common to most writing on the 1918 flu and drawing on economic, psychological, and sociological research, Spinney delivers a fuller portrait of what actually happened during the epidemic around the whole world and how its catastrophic impacts continue a century later.

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  • epidemiology
  • catastrophes
  • global viewpoints
  • fast-paced
  • sociology

Prince & Knight, Book

by Haack, Daniel
Book, 2018
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Added Oct 17, 2018

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The typical "prince seeks a mate, prince encounters obstacles, prince finds mate" fairy tale is made sweetly new in this bright picture book. The prince meets princesses from around the world, but he knows that none of them are the right person for him. When a brave knight helps him defeat the dragon threatening his people, the prince finally meets his perfect partner. Sexuality and acceptance are navigated without any heavy handedness or overexplanation. A perfect pick for families who like sharing fairy tales, fantastic adventures, and stories of true love in all its beautiful forms.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark, BookOne Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

by McNamara, Michelle
Book, 2018
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Added Oct 12, 2018

The Name of the Wind, Book

by Rothfuss, Patrick
Book, 2017
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Added Oct 12, 2018

Jerusalem 1913, BookThe Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Marcus, Amy Dockser
Book, 2007
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Added Oct 12, 2018

My Life in France, Book

by Child, Julia
Book, 2006
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Added Oct 02, 2018

Stalin's Daughter : The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Stalina, eBook

by Sullivan, Rosemary
eBook, 2015
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Added Sep 26, 2018

It Seemed Important at the Time, BookA Romance Memoir

by Vanderbilt, Gloria
Book, 2004
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Added Sep 26, 2018

What Do They Do With All That Poo?, Book

by Kurtz, Jane
Book, 2018
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Added Sep 25, 2018

Julián Is A Mermaid, Book

by Love, Jessica
Book, 2018
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Added Sep 25, 2018

Dear Mrs. Bird, BookA Novel

by Pearce, A. J.
Book, 2018
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Added Sep 12, 2018

The Fall of Heaven, BookThe Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

by Cooper, Andrew Scott
Book, 2016
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On the Beach, Book

by Shute, Nevil
Book, 1997
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Added Aug 20, 2018

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"This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." ~T.S. Eliot Indeed, it does in Nevil Shute's novel. Nuclear war would not instantly wipe out the entire human race, the suppositions go, instead condemning most of the world's population to a slow, painful death by radiation poisoning. As cities, countries, whole continents go "out," all there is to do in Melbourne, Australia is wait for the inevitable fallout. It's strange how fascinating a novel about day to day life in 1960s Australia ends up being in that dark context. If I'm looking a little groggy today, it's because I couldn't put this one down last night.

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • dark
  • dystopian
  • black comedy

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