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The Good Lord Bird
Fiction
Sunny Solomon

The Good Lord Bird

THE GOOD LORD BIRD It’s not any wonder that James McBride’s latest book, The Good Lord Bird won the 2013 National Book Award, and I

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Children’s picture books
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The Wolves in the Walls

Oh, my gosh! This book is so scary it will make you scream until you laugh, and then you will cheer for Lucy who is

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Call for Unagented Manuscripts

Harper Voyager Accepting Unagented Manuscripts for Two Weeks For all you writers of science fiction and fantasy who are without a literary agent, this may

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This 'N That
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Reading Journal 4, Part 3

Without having Googled Jonathan Crary, all I know about the author, from five brief lines on the inside of the dust jacket, is that he

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Golden Slippers
African American Writers
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Langston Hughes – A poet for BLM?

GOLDEN SLIPPERS: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers Poem: Youth Poet: Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) Editor: Arna Bontemps Publisher: Harper & Row

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These Is My Words
Historical Fiction
Sunny Solomon

These is My Words

These is My Words has been out since 2008, so my wholehearted two thumbs up for this book may seem a day late and a

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Fiction
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Sweeping Up Glass

Hang on folks, here comes the best read I’ve had this year. Carolyn Wall, an Oklahoma resident who has taught creative writing to children and

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Plant a Kiss
Children’s picture books
Aubrey Siino

Plant a Kiss

PLANT A KISS Plant a Kiss, perfect for Valentine’s Day, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds have created a picture book that

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The Round House
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Round House

THE ROUND HOUSE The Round House, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, foregrounds all of her considerable talents. Set on an Ojibwe Indian reservation in North Dakota,

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FLIGHT BEHAVIOR
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver is at her best when she views a particular setting and its inhabitants through the eyes of a keenly perceptive female character. Writing

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History
Neal Ferguson

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914 In the past century more than 25,000 books have been published about World War I and

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

State of Wonder

Truthfully, I never ever have wondered what it would be like to delay menopause forever. It certainly never has occurred to me to want to

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Names on a Map

Because I grew to maturity during the Viet Nam conflict and because many of my male friends at the time were impacted by decisions about

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History
Neal Ferguson

Tommy

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front Tommy is a composite cubist portrait of British soldiers on the Western Front during the Great War. The

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These Is My Words
Fiction
Ann Ronald

These is My Words

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories Nancy E. Turner, author of These is my Words, turns a scattering

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