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Happy AF
Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a...
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Book Review
Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a...
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by Kristen Rabe
Boria Sax’s "Enchanted Forests" spurs the imagination with its wide-ranging examination of literature, folklore, and visual art related to forests and their creatures. This engaging, scholarly volume summarizes how, throughout history,...
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Curtis Smith’s lyrical novel "The Lost and the Blind" captures the plights of an addict’s son and a father serving a life sentence in prison. Mark is a disadvantaged teenager who seeks to rise above his hardscrabble upbringing in the...
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Jerome Charyn’s rollicking novel Ravage & Son tours the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century New York City. Between 1883 and 1913, the city’s Jewish quarter witnesses the reign and fall of Lionel Ravage, a hardware and...
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Alien encounters and earthly devastation impact teenagers in the fantastical novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel. In Chris Halvorson’s novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel, teenagers use stories of alien encounters to cope with their difficult life events....
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Encouraging movements toward mental, physical, and economic success on a sociocultural level, "One Choice, One World" is a holistic—and deeply personal—book with a vision for global change. Part memoir, part business book, Frederick...
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In the evocative historical novel "Red Clay Suzie", a teenager’s growing awareness of his sexual orientation clashes with his conservative surroundings and makes him a timeless and empathetic hero. Jeffrey Dale Lofton’s quiet...
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A young woman debates taking her dream job, though it would mean separating from her girlfriend, in the graphic novel "Love and Gravity". Sunati and Austen are students in a future, spacefaring, Earth-based society. They’re also...
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