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• The Land and Its People: Essays

  Sedaris, David

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  Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. As examples, when trying on the role of caretaker after his boyfriend Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery, he both succeeds and fails. He covers ground with his friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Final Target

  Roberts, Nora

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  Dustin, an obsessed reader, becomes author Arden's worst nightmare as he stalks her, eventually attacking her and driving her to move to a tiny town in Oregon to start over. It all goes so well at first. But her biggest fan is determined to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood

  Osmundson, Joseph

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  From the author of National Book Critics Circle Award and Lambda Literary Award finalist Virology comes an intimate memoir of queer family-making.

• Babylon, South Dakota

  Lin, Tom

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  From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

  Asbridge, Thomas

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  In the mid-14th century, a lethal plague struck the medieval world, causing unimaginable suffering and destruction. Tracing the pandemic’s course across the medieval globe, The Black Death contrasts the experiences of different peoples, including…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It

  Averick, Brooke

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  Phoebe has so much going for her: a dream teaching job, a supportive and hilarious group of best friends, and all the romance novels a girl could want at her fingertips—but beats herself up over intimacy--the one thing she can’t quite seem to figure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spendin' Time

  Gray Jr, Gary R

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  For fans of Oge Mora and Ezra Jack Keats comes a poetic and joyful tale about a young boy who runs errands with his grandfather in town, by critically acclaimed author, Gary R. Gray, Jr. and award-winning artist, Rahele Jomepour Bell.

• Berserkers

  Larson, M a

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  A modern-day hunt for Viking treasure collides with Spanish conquistadors and small-town Minnesota in this delightfully zany adventure, perfect for fans of The Goonies and Holes.

• Behind Five Willows

  Hur, June

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  From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Whole Hippopotamus: A Book About Parts and Patterns

  Higgins, Carter

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  Explore the early learning concepts of shapes, sorting, and parts of a whole with the latest addition to Carter Higgins’s playful trio of books, where visual and math literacy meet.

• Kestrel Takes Flight

  McCullough, Joy

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  A girl learns to stand up for herself and embrace the true meaning of home against the backdrop of the Montana wilderness in this heartfelt novel in verse by acclaimed author Joy McCullough.

• Being Aro: A Collection of Aromantic Fiction About Love, Connection, and Empowerment

  Dyer, Madeline

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  These 12 stories showcase aromantic people breaking generational curses, finding acceptance, and protecting the vulnerable while highlighting the infinite ways people find connection and love without romance.

• America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

  Glaude, Eddie S

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  Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, this book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story.

• Rampage of the Desert Wolf

  Johnstone, William W.

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  It was supposed to be straightforward. Smoke and his friend McKinley were set to deliver a herd of horses from Sugarloaf Ranch to the U.S. Army. But before they can do that, they feel obligated to help out when a nearby fort is under attack. By the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Train

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur, his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise

  Sherman, Casey

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  Frank Lloyd Wright was more than the mind behind America's most iconic buildings. He was a man whose turbulent private life captivated a nation. The famous architect's stormy marriage to Kitty Wright and his infamous affair with another woman, Mamah…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before I Knew I Loved You (Original)

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

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  In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible--not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love... The sixth book in the bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold…Read moreRead more of this annotation