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1) Passing
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Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
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Sharlot Citra is whisked from Los Angeles to her mother's native Indonesia, where she finds herself fake dating the son of one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia, and she is surprised when she actually starts to fall in love with the boy, the country, and the big family she never knew before.
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Dog whisperer volume 1
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Square Fish
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Eleven-year-old Emily's nightmares of drowning lead her to an injured dog near her family's coastal Maine home, and as she nurses him back to health, she becomes aware that they have a strange psychic connection.
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for High School
Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
Bestselling Books Written During NaNoWriMo
Time's 100 Best YA Titles of All Time
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden his truth from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from prison a hardened racist. Bobby's disparate worlds collide when his and Aaron's reunion is interrupted by a confrontation...
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Candlewick Press
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2017.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Caleb has spent his life roaming southern England with his Pa, little to their names but his father?s signet ring and a puppet theater for popular, raunchy Punch and Judy shows ? until the day Pa is convicted of a theft he didn?t commit and sentenced to transportation to the colonies in America. From prison, Caleb?s father sends him to the coast to find an aunt Caleb never knew he had. His aunt welcomes him into her home, but...
14) Mixed me!
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Mike is a mixed child, a blend of dark and light. He has to explain about being mixed a lot, but he does it with tons of energy and joy.
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From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai-a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan's search for her long-lost mother.
That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized me that my mother had gone away never to return . . . In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she...
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
19) The moon within
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Books for Women's History Month: PreK-12
Libros en español para niños y niñas de 0-12 años / Books in Spanish for Children 0-12
Queer J Fiction and Comic Books
¡Celebre el Mes de Orgullo!
Libros en español para niños y niñas de 0-12 años / Books in Spanish for Children 0-12
Queer J Fiction and Comic Books
¡Celebre el Mes de Orgullo!
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
20) Mirror girls
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
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