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Star rating for How to be an antiracist
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English
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4.5 stars
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""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...
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Star rating for How to be a (young) antiracist
Publisher:
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Language:
English
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We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it. Readers will follow a young Kendi as he learns (and unlearns) lessons that help shape his understanding racism. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America. Even more fundamentally, it points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. He asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and...
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Star rating for How to raise an antiracist
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English
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"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While wework to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
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Star rating for Summary of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Get the Summary of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism - and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human...
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Star rating for The anxious generation
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"From New York Times bestselling co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health - and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
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Star rating for How to Have Antiracist Conversations
Publisher:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy. Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person? Interrupt hateful or habitual forms of discrimination in new ways that foster deeper change? Dr....
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Star rating for How the light gets in
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English
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." —
Leonard Cohen
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for

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Star rating for How to be an American housewife
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English
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A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it.
When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife.
As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life...
Half a century later,...
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Star rating for How do dinosaurs say goodnight?
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Mother and child ponder the different ways a dinosaur can say goodnight, from slamming his tail and pouting to giving a big hug and kiss.
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Star rating for How to solve your own murder
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English
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"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
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Star rating for How the Grinch stole Christmas!
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5 stars
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The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway. Includes commentary and notes about the author and the story.
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Star rating for How do dinosaurs eat their food?
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English
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Describes how a dinosaur eats, with no rude noises and while sitting very still. How does a dinosaur eat all his food? Does he burp, does he belch, or make noises quite rude? Does he pick at his cereal, throw down his cup,hoping to make someone else pick it up? Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. However, with a little help from Mom and Dad, these young dinosaurs eat all before them with smiles and goodwill....
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Star rating for How to end a love story
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now she's in Los Angeles, where the two have to work together. The result is messy, and electrifying.
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Star rating for This is how it always is
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English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like...
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Star rating for Summary of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Raise an Antiracist
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Publisher:
IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When Sadiqa arrived at the hospital, she was terrified. She was very afraid of the prospect of delivering her baby. She was worried about the car, and how she would be able to drive it after the baby was born. #2 The popular belief that racist and antiracist define a person rather than describe a person in a specific moment doesn't take into account the complexity...
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Star rating for How to be an illustrator
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English
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Offers practical guidance to aspiring illustrators, including effective ways to approach would-be clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to set up a studio.
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Star rating for How do dinosaurs go to school?
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text depict dinosaurs as they ride the bus to school, jump on top of their desks, read their favorite books, and have fun on the playground with all of their friends.
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Star rating for How to train your dragon
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
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Star rating for How do dinosaurs get well soon?
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English
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Describes what a young dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick.
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Star rating for How to walk away
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English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken...