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The Hawaiian Lion
"The Hawaiian Lion" is a lighthearted chapter book in which animal friends overcome their fears and surmount unforeseen obstacles. In Jason Louis’s early reader "The Hawaiian Lion", a group of animals confront their fears and make a...
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Beyond the Next Village
"Beyond the Next Village" is a nurse’s memoir about her transformative, extraordinary experiences in Nepal. American nurse Mary Anne Mercer’s sensitive memoir "Beyond the Next Village" is about the challenges of her life-changing...
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Crying Wolf
In her searing memoir "Crying Wolf", Eden Boudreau enacts a reclamation of herself and her strength after a debilitating rape. Boudreau, the married mother of three boys, is a bisexual, sex-positive woman engaged in a “kink-forward...
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Moraline
"Moraline" is a gentle, empowering novel in which young advocates find their work enhanced by moments of magic. In Cintia Alfonso Fior’s appealing novel "Moraline", a fidgety girl who loves to run finds her place and purpose at a new...
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Underwater Daughter
"Underwater Daughter" is a poetic memoir about transformation and transcendence after abuse. Drawing on a collage of dreams, poems, vignettes, lists, and epigraphs, Antonia Deignan’s unusual memoir "Underwater Daughter" concerns the...
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Between Starshine and Clay
In "Between Starshine and Clay", Nigerian-born writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika gathers significant voices from the African diaspora for engaging discussions on race, culture, and society. Bernardine Evaristo introduces the book with a note...
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Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston’s moving, often funny memoir Jennie’s Boy concerns his hardscrabble Newfoundland childhood, which was marked by chronic illness. Although Jenny married Art, “the first educated man she’d ever met,” to elevate...
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I Got It from Here
"I Got It from Here" is a memoir about persistence and personal growth in spite of dire odds. Francesca Miracola’s memoir "I Got It from Here" is both a bid for understanding and a cautionary tale by a woman who married the wrong man....