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1. Not my idea: a book about whiteness

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Author:
Higginbotham, Anastasia
Series:
Ordinary terrible things
Language:
English
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North Haven Children's Parent Shelf
j E Higginbotham, Anastasia (Parent Shelf - Tough Topics)
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A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it. "A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --

2. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Studio book
Alice in Wonderland
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English
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4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

3. The time machine

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Gollancz 50 collection
SF masterworks
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English
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In this hugely influential groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds imself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear--the...

4. Hamlet

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Shakespeare
Plays
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English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

5. King Baby

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Author:
Beaton, Kate, 1983-
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Baby is King, and all his needs must be met by his subjects, otherwise known as his parents, but soon he will grow up, and who will rule them then?

6. Mrs. Fletcher: a novel

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Author:
Perrotta, Tom, 1961-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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"From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the...

7. The princess and the pony

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Author:
Beaton, Kate, 1983-
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony--but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.

8. Poser: my life in twenty-three yoga poses

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Author:
Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Language:
English
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The studio was decorated in the style of "Don't Be Afraid, We're Not a Cult." All was white and blond and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or Swedish people. The only spot of color came from the Tibetan prayer flags strung over the doorway into the studio. In flagrant defiance of my longtime policy of never entering a structure adorned with Tibetan prayer flags, I removed my shoes, paid my ten bucks, and walked in . . . Ten...

9. Half a chance

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Author:
Lord, Cynthia
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Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.

10. Saving Wonder

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Author:
Knight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.

11. The Truth Commission: a novel

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Author:
Juby, Susan, 1969-
Series:
DUM-259080
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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1 stars
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As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" at a school for the arts, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets, while Norm's famous sister reveals some very unsettling truths of her own.--

12. A Princess of Mars

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Series:
Mars novels
First Avenue Classics
Barsoom - John Carter volume 1
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...

13. Tremendous Trifles

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Author:
Chesterton, G. K.
Language:
English
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Tremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain deeper matters. Using relatable and accessible examples, Tremendous Trifles also test biases and preconceived ideas, specifically in...

14. My nemesis: a novel

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Author:
Craig, Charmaine
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize, comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples. Tessa is a successful white woman writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar based in Los Angeles. Sparks fly as they exchange...

15. White freedom: the racial history of an idea

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Author:
Stovall, Tyler, 1954-2021
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
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"The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has...

16. The museum

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Author:
Verde, Susan
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English
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A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.

17. Disquiet, please: more humor writing from The New Yorker

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Random House
Pub. Date:
[2008]
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817.508 Disquiet
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A compendium of literary humor from the pages of "The New Yorker" features essays and articles by S.J. Perelman, Dorothy Parker, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, David Sedaris, and Ian Frazier

18. The game of love and death

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Author:
Brockenbrough, Martha
Language:
English
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In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

19. Reagan rising: the decisive years, 1976-1980

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Author:
Shirley, Craig
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"Whoever seeks to know the heart of Ronald Reagan will find it in Reagan Rising, as Craig Shirley once again records our 40th President with extraordinary wamth, depth and perspective. A "must add" to any Reagan fan's library." - Ken Khachigian, Ronald Reagan's Senior Presidential Campaign Aide and Chief White House Speechwriter "Craig Shirley's newest book, Reagan Rising, reveals the real Reagan -- the ideas that shaped the man and his presidency....

20. The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry

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Publisher:
Penguin Books
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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811.508 Penguin
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