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It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights--after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. In Black AF History, acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as...
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2023.
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"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the super rich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
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After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...
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Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
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In Madness, award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered...
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When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town’s white establishment played in it.
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After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother could only dream of.
12) The deep sky
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2023.
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English
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When a lethal bomb knocks the The Phoenix—a ship carrying humanity’s last hope—off course, Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect and with the crew turning on each other, she is determined to find the culprit before the bomber strikes again.
13) Evergreen
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Returning home from the detention center, Aki is working as an aid in the Japanese hospital when she discovers her husband’s best friend might be guilty of elder abuse.
14) Promise boys
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arersted.
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When a night of grabbing candy from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Jonas is challenged by his friend to confront the guilt he feels over the incident and his role in his parents’ ill-defined separation by answering the question: “What’s the worst thing you ever did?”
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2023.
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In this thought-provoking personal manifesto on memory, family and history, the author, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, finds herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen spends the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her and her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
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2023.
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When her husband, a Latvian refugee, opens a successful company marketing rye bread, Michaele embarks on a European journey in search of his origins, coming to realize, after unearthing stories of war, privation and resilience, that rye bread represents everything about his homeland that he loved and lost.
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Gifted clans volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Thirteen year-old Riley was not born to be a leader, but the magical community thinks she and her adopted brother, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse, so now the one thing Riley must do is believe in herself.
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