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2016.
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English
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Stillman's War: When Sheriff Ben Stillman's deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman who was about to shoot Stillman in the back, Leon takes the outlaw girl's lifeless body back to her mountain ranch to turn her over to her family. He feels the need to explain himself, to personally account for the girl's death. His explanation falls on deaf ears. Old Watt Hollister sends his wild sons led by his eldest boy, Nash, out on the trail...
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Yakima Henry westerns volume 9
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.
23) Blended
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English
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Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
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[2021]
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English
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In order to cope with a traumatic breakup and the uncertainty of life after high school, seventeen-year-old Miho decides to complete a triathlon and with the help of her family and friends learns just how far her determination can take her.
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Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chaos ensues when Keisha's father brings an escaped alligator home to Carter's Urban Rescue, but it gets out of the bathroom while Grandma is guarding it.
28) Barack Obama
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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A short introduction to the 44th president of the United States.
29) August Snow
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August Snow novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement that left him low on friends. He has just returned...
30) Border crossing
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[2009]
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English
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Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell reality from delusion.
34) Barack Obama
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Biography of Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States.
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's book about being biracial, sharing her best friend, and learning to be a flower girl.
38) Tentacle & wing
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2017.
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English
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"Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret, which, if discovered, could upend everything the world knows about how Chimeras came into being"--
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[2023]
Language
English
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"Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today. Yet retellings of their epic story have long obscured their Black relatives. In The Grimkes, award-winning historian Kerri Greenidge presents...
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