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• Well-read Black Girl

  Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves : An Anthology

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  Nonfiction. An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. A timely anthology, recommended for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House

  Roca, Paco

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  Graphic Novel/Fiction. This is a "superficially simple" story about a family going through their father's home after his death. Each couple focuses on different aspects of the home they all grew up visiting during summers as children,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So You Want to Talk about Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma

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  Nonfiction. Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Raven Ring

  Wrede, Patricia C.

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  Teen Fantasy. When Eleret learns that her mother has been killed fighting for the Emperor, she knows her duty: she packs her weapons and makes the long trip to the capital to reclaim her mother's belongings. Once she arrives in Ciaron,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  Science-Fiction. Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem is a study in scale and connectedness. A mysterious, fully-immersive video game that pits players against the elements on faraway planet. A secret army funded by a wealthy environmentalist.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Head Full of Ghosts

  A Novel

  Tremblay, Paul

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  Horror. Fifteen years ago, the reality television show The Possession aired, following the lives of a suburban Massachusetts family whose eldest daughter Marjorie began to display signs of possession -- or perhaps acute schizophrenia. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Happiness Project

  Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

  Rubin, Gretchen

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  Nonfiction. Read by the author, this audiobook offers a well-researched, nontraditional guide to happiness. Gretchen Rubin recounts her happiness journey as someone who was already relatively happy, highlighting the struggles she faced and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Knitlandia

  A Knitter Sees the World

  Parkes, Clara

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  Memoir/Travel. In this lovely book Clara Parkes, yarn expert and knitting devotee, takes us from a beautiful lake in New Hampshire to a sheep farm in Reykjavik, Iceland to discover the delightful world of knitting festivals and retreats.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beautiful Ones

  Prince,

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  Biography. The Beautiful Ones is an emotional biography that was never finished when Prince's life was tragically cut short in April 2016. While not a biography in the traditional sense, it gives glimpses of his genius through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

  Noll, Mark A.

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  Nonfiction. An interesting perspective on the Civil War. American culture was saturated by Protestant evangelical beliefs in the antebellum period but Northerners and Southerners could not agree on the Bible's stance on slavery. The Bible…Read moreRead more of this annotation