Award Winning Books
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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American SceneLithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project's national mural program. In Ben Shahn's New Deal...
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Love and Leftovers: A Novel in VerseRomantic and bittersweet, Love and Leftovers captures one girl's experience with family, friends, and love. Dragged to New Hampshire for the summer, Marcie soon realizes that her mom has no plans for them to return to Marcie's father in Idaho. As Marcie starts at...
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Freewater Lib/EDebut author Amina Luqman Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving...
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Beware False Tigers: Strategies and Antidotes for an Age of StressThe world is full of tigers, but only some of them are real. Learn their ways and you'll become stronger, wiser, and more resilient. Our world is in turmoil, bearing down on our minds and bodies with increasing pressure, acute crises, and wicked problems....
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Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major LeaguesThe love between brothers is key to Matt Tavares's tale of Dominican pitcher Pedro Mart nez, from his days of throwing rocks at mangoes to his years as a major-league star. Before Pedro Mart nez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship,...
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We Dig Worms!What do worms do all day? How do they see? And why are they so cold and squishy? Find out by going on an underground tour through the hidden world of earthworms. Kevin McCloskey's book even shows readers what's happening inside a worm's body--brain,...
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The Big Wet Balloon: Toon Books Level 2Also available in Spanish as El globo grande y mojado A Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year. When her sister, Clemmie, refuses to play in the rain, Matilda wants to teach her the delights of a wet Saturday. They end up learning an...
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Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare MotherGrowing up in a prosperous neighborhood, B. Morrison was taught that poverty was a product of laziness and public assistance programs only rewarded irresponsibility. However, when her marriage soured, she abruptly found herself an impoverished single mother. Disowned by her parents and facing destitution...
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CorporealityIn Corporeality, Hollis Seamon's latest fiction collection, we meet the cat lady, the professor dealing with a plagiarist while coping with personal hardships, sibling rivalry of the unnaturally cursed kind, the dog that goes beyond everyday dog sense and scent to protect its owners....
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The Next to Last MistakeTess Goodwin's life in rural Iowa is sheltered and uncomplicated. Although she chooses to spend most of her free time playing chess with her best friend Zander, the farm-boy from next door, her skills as a bovine midwife and tractor mechanic ensure that she...
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The Great DivideWhen attorney Marcus Glenwood resigns from a prestigious corporate law firm to retreat to a small town in North Carolina and rebuild his life after a devastating personal tragedy, he suddenly finds himself in the biggest and most emotionally difficult case of his career.Fragile...
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I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and BeyondA candid memoir of building an acting career -- and a happy life -- with cerebral palsy: "It's a joy to read this book." -- Ian McShane, award-winning actor from Deadwood and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Geri Jewell inspired a generation...
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Still LifeAda escaped her family's self-enclosed world to elope with a mysterious stranger. Five months later, she's a widow in a strange new world.Ada was born into a fringe religious sect named for her father, The Prophet. But her lifelong habit of absolute obedience was...
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Ellen Outside the LinesWinner of a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor! A heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons for fans of Rain Reign and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World. Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her...
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John Carpenter's Asylum Volume 1There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In the tunnels and dark alleys of the city, demons lurk... and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows and sees the truth. Father Daniel Beckett has seen demons and he's spoken to the Devil,...
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Refined by Fire2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist When hijacked American Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, LTC (RET) Brian Birdwell was only 15 to 20 yards away. He stepped out into the corridor and was instantly engulfed in flames--burns consumed 60 percent...
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Code OrangeWalking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy-he didn't worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late...
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The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt SouthSuburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of...
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Thunder-Boomer!A summer storm brings relief from the heat--and a surprise--to a farm family.It's a hot day on the farm, and a little girl, her brother, and their mother are trying to cool off by the pond. Suddenly, dark clouds roll in. A thunder-boomer is...
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Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope SawHave you ever wished you could travel back in time? Or visit a galaxy light-years away? Or see a star being born? The Hubble telescope has allowed scientists to do just that. The Hubble's dazzling images have transformed astronomy, shedding light on the deepest...
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