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Remember Me : A Spanish Civil War Novel
"From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of tragedy and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives"--…
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Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires, and hidden cameras.…
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A Kids Book About : Systemic Racism
"This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other inistitutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color." -- back cover.…
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"The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--…
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate pigeons as colorful, chatty denizens of the city.…
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"United by love. Separated by war. Will they find their way back to each other? Find out in Jenny Ashcroft's historical romance Meet Me in Bombay"…
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The tale of five women in three eras, whose lives are tied together by one very special garden.…
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The Girl From The Channel Islands
After fleeing Vienna, Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman living on the island of Jersey, is forced to hide in plain sight during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community, and a German soldier she befriends.…
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"After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them."--…
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Thomas Jefferson : America's 3rd President
Discusses the childhood, family life, political career, two terms as President, and accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson.…
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At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.…
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During their annual winter diving trip, two Swedish-Norwegian half sisters find themselves fighting for survival when one of them gets trapped at the sea bottom by a fallen rock.…
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It's 1999 and throughout one twelve-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin, and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their imminent demises.…
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A formerly famous kid detective, now in his early thirties, finds his routine disrupted when his first real adult case appears in the form of a woman seeking answers in the murder of her boyfriend.…
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Follows the adventures of two lifelong friends, Mike and Kyle, who have a toxic relationship.…
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When dead bodies start appearing after each full moon, a stressed-out police officer struggles to overcome the belief that a werewolf is in town.…
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After their son dies, a retired sheriff and his wife set out to find their grandson and discover that he and his mother are involved with a dangerous family.…
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A seventeen-year-old girl swaps bodies with a notorious serial killer and has only twenty-four hours to undo the change before it becomes permanent.…
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After World War II, a former Dutch resistance fighter tries to save the life of a renowned artist and art dealer accused of conspiring with the Nazis because he is convinced of his innocence.…
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After two friends mess up a job for a small-time crook, they cross paths with an assassin and her two henchmen.…
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When a woman wakes up and becomes consumed by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, her feeling of imminent death becomes contagious, infecting those around her.…
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Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London.…
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In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history.…
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"Welcome to Owl School! Professor Olaf Owl is here to tell you everything you need to know about being an owl, from hunting to camouflage to seeing in the dark."--…
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Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building.…
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Julian Bond's Time To Teach : A History Of The Southern Civil Rights Movement
"Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter."--…
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Flowers In The Gutter : The True Story Of The Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted The Nazis
"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--…
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"In this captivating dystopian novel, a larger-than-life drag queen and her allies join forces to rise up when a post-Trump regime rounds those deemed "Other" into concentration camps"--…
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Call Me American : The Extraordinary True Story Of A Young Somali Immigrant
"Adapted for Young Adults".…
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A successful media influencer's morally questionable relationship with the truth exposes deep psychological cracks in her marriage at the same time her family is targeted by a violently obsessed fan.…
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Titus, the archangel of Africa, must stop the reborn, rotting creatures that have gained vicious intelligence, from spreading across the world and asks the Hummingbird, an old and powerful woman who is his only hope, to stand by his side.…
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Prey : Immigration, Islam, And The Erosion Of Women's Rights
"The New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, and Heretic argues that waves of Muslim immigration are transforming sexual politics in Europe in ways that threaten to undermine the hard-won rights of Western women"--…
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One Day You'll Thank Me : Essays On Dating, Motherhood, And Everything In Between
"The fan favorite star of the Bravo hit series Southern Charm offers a witty and candid collection of essays on dating, motherhood, and everything in between"--…
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The Officer's Daughter : A Memoir Of Family And Forgiveness
The author describes the life-altering tragedy she experienced as a teen, when her cousin was murdered in a robbery gone wrong and explains why she needed to meet one of the killers thirty years later at his parole hearing.…
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The popular actress reveals her journey of self-discovery through her childhood in India, her teenage years in the United States, her success in beauty competitions, the challenges and triumphs of her acting career, and her marriage to Nick Jonas.…
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We Had A Little Real Estate Problem : The Unheralded Story Of Native Americans In Comedy
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--…
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Walk In My Combat Boots : True Stories From America's Bravest Warriors
Shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military, from the Vietnam War through the present.…
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This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends : The Cyber-weapons Arms Race
Describes the dark market that pits nation states, defense contractors, cybercrimes and security defenders against each other for a (3z(Bzero day(3y (Bcomputer bug.…
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The Ratline : The Exalted Life And Mysterious Death Of A Nazi Fugitive
"The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"--…
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The Power Of Voice : A Guide To Making Yourself Heard
The internationally renowned celebrity voice coach shares proven exercises and techniques for developing an authentic voice, offering recommendations for how to overcome common obstacles to become a confident and effective speaker.…
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The Scorpion's Tail : A Nora Kelly Novel
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.…
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"Pike Logan must pull two major world powers back from the brink of war in the latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces officer Brad Taylor"--…
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The Daughters Of Foxcote Manor
When Sylvie's 18-year-old daughter becomes pregnant and her own mother falls ill, Sylvie begins to seek the truth about the circumstances of her adoption forty years ago, and its connection to a murdered man whose killer was never found.…
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DC's strangest group of heroes is back again to save the world - that is, if they can find a way to grow up.…
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New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.…
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A macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.…
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A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.…
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Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.…
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Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.…
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Seventeen-year-old Raffy is determined to win a cosplay competition that could lead to art school admission and respect for his talent, but being paired with his main competitor, ex-boyfriend Luca, complicates things.…
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Both high school senior Liza Yang and her mother share a love and talent for baking but disagree on the subject of dating, especially when Mrs. Yang turns her annual baking contest into a matchmaking scheme.…
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Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradually exposes a violent secret explaining why the once-prestigious institution abruptly closed in disgrace.…
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A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.…
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The Rough Guide To Avant-garde Japan .
From boundary-pushing koto musicians to experimental jazz virtuosi, Japanese music has long embraced all things avant-garde. This Rough guide highlights some of today's key innovators whose individualism challenges the conformist perception of Japan.…
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Opening The Road : Victor Hugo Green And His Green Book
"A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--…
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"Connects babies across our ecosystem with compelling photographs and a poetic text that shows how the everyday milestones babies take parallel animals' in the world." -- Amazon.com.…
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Unspeakable : The Tulsa Race Massacre
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--…
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Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.…
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White Feminism : From The Suffragettes To Influencers And Who They Leave Behind
"A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of color--perfect for fans of White Fragility and Good and Mad"--…
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The Devil You Know : A Black Power Manifesto
The New York Times columnist presents a rallying call to action that challenges popular myths about race and urges Black Americans to unite against white supremacy.…
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A narrative chronicle of NASA's deep-space mission to Jupiter's ocean moon, Europa, discusses the remarkable work of scientists who overcame formidable hurdles in their effort to determine if organic life exists elsewhere in the solar system.…
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The Secret Life Of Dorothy Soames : A Memoir
Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.…
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Ida B. The Queen : The Extraordinary Life And Legacy Of Ida B. Wells
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.…
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America And Iran : A History, 1720 To The Present
"A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--…
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The Plague Cycle : The Unending War Between Humanity And Infectious Disease
This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats caused by changes in global trade and climate.…
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The New York Times 'Your Money' personal finance columnist offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.…
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Get What's Yours For Healthcare : How To Get The Best Care At The Right Price
"The latest installment in the successful series, GET WHAT'S YOURS FOR HEALTHCARE explains how to get the high-quality healthcare you need at a fair price"--…
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Covers all aspects of programming using the C++ language, including objects and classes, data structures, the standard library, lambda expressions, templates, and debugging.…
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The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.…
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The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.…
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Beginners : The Joy And Transformative Power Of Lifelong Learning
"The best-selling author of Traffic and You May Also Like now gives us a thought-provoking, playful investigation into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter your age"--…
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"A rural noir about a woman on a pulse-pounding expedition to deliver a fugitive--and forced to confront her own past on the journey"--…
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Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.…
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"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"--…
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In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago.…
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"A young woman wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital with amnesia and a head wound and must work backward, using her Instagram account, to piece together her identity."--…
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The Healing Powers Of Herbs And Spices : A Complete Guide To Nature's Most Magical Medicine
Explores the many ways fresh herbs and dried spices can provide medicinal powers, home cures, weight loss benefits, and more.…
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"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"--…
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"A reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds"--…
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