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1) The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1
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English
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Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Family Road Trip
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
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2008.
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English
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Born in the eighth year of Enclosure, ten-year-old Honor lives in a highly regulated colony with her defiant parents, but when they have an illegal second child and are taken away, it is up to Honor and her friend Helix, another "Unpredictable," to uncover a terrible secret about their Island and the Corporation that runs everything.
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"Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, and successful--she and her fiancé Michael are considered the "couple goals" of their social network and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: "Oh my god, have you seen The List?" It began as a crowdsourced collection of names and somehow morphed into an anonymous...
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2015.
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English
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"This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter--a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has begun to feel weird and empty when there isn't anyone to be furious about. Whole careers are being ruined by one mistake. A transgression is revealed. Our collective outrage at it has the force of a hurricane. Then we all quickly forget about it...
6) El dador
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[2013]
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Español
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Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonás, un niño que cumple doce años, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial.
7) Ink
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In Saintstone everyone gets tattoos recording their deeds from birth until death, and the ink lets every other citizen know your triumphs as well as your sins; so when Leora's father dies and she sees glimpses a symbol of a horrible crime on the back of his neck she is horrified, and sure it is a mistake--and in her efforts to find out the truth she discovers the lengths that Saintstone will go to preserve its "perfect" society.
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What if the doctor who had saved your child's life from a previously hopeless terminal condition had never been born--could have been born, but was aborted? Would knowing that your child could have been saved change your perspective on abortion? In A Daughter's Lament, Grace almost loses her child, Piper, to just such an illness and learns the true value of every conceived child. Share Grace and Piper's story as they discover through a "dream doctor"...
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Goleman Eck is an abortion survivor. Literally. As such, he is subject to other people's uses of him for political, religious, and media purposes. Some for whom he "doesn't look right" threaten his life. Others know Gole, as a lover or true friend. Whirling together the contemporary outrageous and the serio-comic, Robert Ready's Eck: A Romance is wholly new fiction, a quest for identity, purpose, love-even what it means to be alive.
10) We can be heroes
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"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
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[2017]
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English
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"A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed Under Secretary of Defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs. Are Extraterrestrials and UFOs real? Are there secret subterranean military bases hiding advanced technologies that date back to the incident at Roswell? Is there a False Flag in the works intended to wipe out billions? Steve Alten's...
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English
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Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of Our Mothers' Daughters, Every Mother's Son, and What if your mother are feminist classics. The linked stories in this new collection, rooted in her, experience as a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive...
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The Pivot of Civilization is one of Margaret Sanger's several insightful books in the 1920s which had a nationwide impact in promoting the cause of birth control. Contents: "A New Truth Emerges CHAPTER II: Conscripted Motherhood CHAPTER III: "Children Troop Down From Heaven...." CHAPTER IV: The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded CHAPTER V: The Cruelty of Charity CHAPTER VI: Neglected Factors of the World Problem CHAPTER VII: Is Revolution the Remedy?...
14) The giver
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Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A graphic novel interpretation of Lois Lowry's The giver.
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"I Am a Peaceful Goldfish teaches kids and families about playful breathing techniques that we can use to overcome our anxiety and feel calm and grounded. When we are overcome with emotions, our breath--and a bit of imagination--can bring us back to a peaceful place. In this simple story, two children learn how to settle their feelings with imaginative breathing techniques, pretending they are elephants, flowers, even dragons! This charming book teaches...
17) Furious thing
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English
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Anger was something to believe in when the world let her down. "Furious thing" roars with justifiable anger at an unfair world, as one girl fights to claim back the spaces that belong to her and battles to be heard... Lexi's angry. And it's getting worse. If only she could stop losing her temper and behave herself, her step-father would accept her, her mum would love her like she used to and her step-brother would declare his crushing desire to spend...
18) I, robot
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A Chicago police detective in the year 2035 AD investigates the murder of a scientist and suspects the murder was committed by a robot designed to work alongside humans.
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