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Rupert's Snowman
Rupert’s Snowman is a captivating picture book in which a boy develops a creative solution to a snowman’s loneliness. In Phillipa Warden’s charming picture book Rupert’s Snowman, a young boy and his mother build the best snowman...
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Stare at Me
Joey Mullaney learned how to rough up an opponent on the football field before he could do long division. From the beginning, his sharp reflexes and outrageous goals made him a star on the sports field. But he took on a much more...
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Black Box
Japanese journalist Shiori Ito’s efforts to reform Japan’s antiquated rape laws and give victims a voice are credited with sparking Japan’s controversial #MeToo movement; her memoir "Black Box" begins with the rape that almost...
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Saga Boy
Taking place across continents, "Saga Boy" is the memoir of a Black Trinidadian who grew into his manhood in Canada, surrounded by whiteness and colonial legacies. Downing’s early childhood was filled with Anglican hymns, British-style...
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Distant Fathers
"Distant Fathers" is a memoir about displacement, disorientation, an identity fractured, and a family cracked by time, history, and the conditions and events of World War II Europe. Marina Jarre, who was born in 1925, writes about being...
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The Prisoner
For many, the Korean peninsula is shrouded in mystery. In his memoir "The Prisoner", esteemed writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong illuminates the turbulence of twentieth-century Korean politics to reveal a society seeking...
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Yoke
Jessamyn Stanley is acclaimed for Every Body Yoga, which opened the practice to people of all shapes and sizes; her memoir, "Yoke", is intimate in recording how she discovered her true self. Tough yet sensitive to raw places in the soul,...
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Shooting out the Lights
Kim Fairley’s sensitive, probing memoir concerns her love for a much older man; their marriage was marked by silence and mystery. Fairley was twenty-four when she became captivated by Vern’s smile, wicked sense of humor, and rugged...