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Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
My first audio book in many years and Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (2021) was excellent. I story set in the relatively near future that deals with…
Read more of this comment about MigrationsLoved this book overall. Loved the words attributed to main character. Felt sympathy when her mother died but her waffling over which man to choose and…
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Gone To The Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen (2021). As a memoir this book will likely be for those 13 and older. I have loved and lost…
Read more of this comment about Gone to the WoodsThe Wild Robot by Peter Brown (2016) is an appealing novel for kids 8 to 12 and/or as a family read aloud with lots of time for conversation. Yes, there…
Read more of this comment about The Wild RobotThe Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart (2019) is delightful. Coyote (not her real name) is the name her father calls her by. She is…
Read more of this comment about The Remarkable Journey of Coyote…Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11 by Alan Gratz (2021) is an ambitious novel. Gratz created a rendering, as in - an artistic representing and/or depicting,…
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (2019) is a popular YA murder mystery with a 17-year-old senior girl (Pip) attempting to uncover the truth…
Read more of this comment about A Good Girl's Guide to MurderA Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia (2021) is a YA work that has earned starred reviews from Kirkus and Horn Book and the 2021 Boston Globe-Horn…
Read more of this comment about A Sitting in St. JamesTurtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein (2020) is a YA work of realistic fiction for anyone 10 and up. Will is a seventh grader and he is having a rough year.…
Read more of this comment about Turtle BoyThe Wild Robot by Peter Brown (2016) is an appealing novel for kids 8 to 12 and/or as a family read aloud with lots of time for conversation. Yes, there…
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My Grandmother's Hands
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, 2017, explores, as Tim Wise says, the “intergenerational…
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