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Only Pieces
When Edgar was small, he and his father built puzzles together. Each piece had its own special place; if one small piece was missing, the puzzle would be forever incomplete. And in Edd Tello’s novel-in-verse "Only Pieces", Edgar’s...
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Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special
"Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special" is a heartwarming picture book about an imperiled otter whose situation is used to teach marine ecology concepts. Meghan Piercy’s "Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special" is an engaging picture book about a...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Language
"Seven Brief Lessons on Language" is an insightful language arts book with an unusual take on the spiritual underpinnings of English. Jonathan Dunne’s musing text "Seven Brief Lessons on Language" addresses the spiritual side of...
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A Transcendental Journey
"A Transcendental Journey" is a road-tripping travel memoir that’s graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom. Stephen Evans’s eloquent memoir "A Transcendental Journey" is about his inward-looking, post-divorce road trip. Abandoning...
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Help Them Learn with Their Strengths
"Help Them Learn with Their Strengths" is an educational treatise that suggests means of supporting dyslexic students. M. Susan Grogan’s education guide "Help Them Learn with Their Strengths" is about recognizing, encouraging, and...
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Woman, Watching
"Woman, Watching" is Merilyn Simonds’s account of the remarkable life and legacy of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the amateur ornithologist and author who has been called “the Canadian Rachel Carson.” Born into Sweden’s landed...
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s inspiring biography traces the rise of a Black American painter, the great grandson of slaves, to a place of eminence in twentieth-century American art, despite the racism he faced. Born in 1911 in North...
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The Child Is the Teacher
Cristina De Stefano’s "The Child Is the Teacher" is an intimate, comprehensive biography of Maria Montessori, whose revolutionary approach to early childhood education provoked storms of controversy, brought about a new appreciation of...