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THE American Girls
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a compendium of all the american girl doll books for those of us who were raised by their trauma, strength, and bravery
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THE American Girls
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a compendium of all the american girl doll books for those of us who were raised by their trauma, strength, and bravery
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Descendant of the Crane
Joan He
In New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He's debut novel, Descendant of the Crane , a determined and vulnerable young heroine struggles to do right in a world brimming with deception. This gorgeous, Chinese-inspired fantasy is packed with dizzying twists, complex characters, and intricate politics.
TREASON
For princess Hesina of Yan, the palace is her home, but her father is her world. He taught her how to defend against the corruption and excesses of the old kings, before revolutionaries purged them and their seers and established the dynasty anew.
Before he died, he was supposed to teach her how to rule.
TRIAL
The imperial doctors say the king died a natural death, but Hesina has reason to believe he was murdered. She is determined to uncover the truth and bring the assassin to justice.
TRUTH
But in a broken system, ideals can kill. As the investigation quickly spins out of Hesinaâs control, she realizes that no one is innocent. Not the heroes in history, or the father she thought she knew. More blood will spill if she doesnât rein in the trial soonâher peopleâs, her familyâs, and even her own.
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their familiesâand their countryâproved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.
While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washingtonâproving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.
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Razorblade Tears
S.A. Cosby
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A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiahâs white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derekâs father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.Provocative and fast-paced, S.A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.
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A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
P. Djèlà Clark
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlà Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Shaâarawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, sheâs certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer.
So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world 50 years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage.
Alongside her Ministry colleagues and her clever girlfriend Siti, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city -or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seemsâŚ
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When We Lost Our Heads
Heather O'Neill
A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history.
Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood.
Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly.
Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more.
Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.
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The Gift of the Great Buffalo
Carole Lindstrom
In this beautiful and dramatic story, bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Aly McKnight show readers how life was lived by Indigenous communities, offering the true history of life on the prairie.Before there was a little house on the prairie, there was a tipi on the prairie.Rose is a young MĂŠtis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other MĂŠtis families. The ritual of the hunt has been practiced for generations, and each hunt must see the community through the next six months. But in recent years, the buffalo population has dwindled, and after days on the hunt, there are no buffalo to be found. Can Rose help her family find the herd that will enable them to survive the long winter?
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Saint Catherine
Anna Meyer
A relatable adult graphic novel about a woman who skips Sunday mass for the first time in her life only to discover she's possibly being possessed by a demon.
As a recovering Irish American Catholic, she has mostly traded the world of communion and confessionals for the âcity-girlâ struggle of work-life balance, family, and her relationships. The only thing she has not been able to shake is her fear that something bad will happen if she misses Sunday mass.
But her fears become a reality when she skips mass for the first time and discovers she is now being possessed by a demon claiming to be the prince of hell. As she takes matters into her own hands and attempts to exorcise these demons (both the paranormal and emotional kind), Catherine must face her buried guilt and what it truly means to be good.
A cathartic and engaging view into the messy life of an urban women in her early twenties, Anna Meyer's Saint Catherine is truly a story of letting go of guilt and taking responsibilities for your desires, hopes, and mistakes.
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink
Kory Stamper
A kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of huesâand the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Word begonia (n.): 3 -s : a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see coral 3b), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet williamâcalled also gaiety
What could âbluer than fiestaâ possibly mean? While editing dictionaries for Merriam-Webster, Kory Stamper found herself drawn again and again to the whimsical color definitions in Websterâs Third New International Dictionaryâespecially when compared to the dry and impersonal entries that filled the rest of the dictionary. Stamper couldnât help but Who was the voice behind these peculiar definitions?
Meet I. H. Godlove, an erratic but brilliant up-and-coming scientist who was one of the experts Merriam-Webster hired in 1930 to help them revise the dictionary to reflect a rapidly modernizing world. His fascinating life mirrors the wild and winding journey that color science, color psychology, and color production took through the twentieth century. Stamper tracks these industries as they move into the atomic age and intertwine in strange and surprising ways, spanning two world wars and involving chemical explosions, an unexpected suicide, dramatic office politics, and an extraordinary love story.
Filled with captivating facts about color words and colors themselvesâdid you know that the word âpukeâ used to be a highly fashionable color before it was associated with vomit?âand fueled by Stamperâs inexhaustible curiosity, A Trick of Light will transform the way you see the world, from black-and-white to Technicolor.
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it's weird to try and write a review for a memoir of someone's experience in the holocaust. what is there to really review?
what i can say is that this is an important book (as many holocaust memoirs are) to really be able to understand the atrocities that occurred in nazi death camps. in many ways this book felt different from other holocaust memoirs i have read as it felt more matter of fact. while the author's own personal story and feelings are certainly conveyed in this book it feels sometimes almost as an outside view of what happened in the camp. when we learn that one of the things that kept her going was the need to tell the truth about what happened in the camp it makes so much sense. oftentimes i felt that when she was reporting on things that happened in the camp there was a lack of emotions and it makes sense now. she was likely trying to tell the objective truth of some of these things without her emotions clouding any of the facts.
overall, i think this is a very interesting book. i would highly recommend it to anyone who is learning about the nazi death camps. most importantly it's imperative that we never forget and never allow another atrocity such as the holocaust to happen again.
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
Olga Lengyel
Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau.
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength.
Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, Five Chimneys does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her "very frank, very well written book".
This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.
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it's been a while since i read my last choose your own adventure novel and honestly...i was hoping for something better than what i just read. by no means do i think it's bad but it feels very bare bones and lacking in many ways. the characters were all very two dimensional and lacked any real character growth. this felt like a middle/high school history final project. there are moments of interest, but they quickly fade away. ironically the most interesting choices you can make are often the 'wrong' choices in order to progress the story towards the intended goal which is to reach chimney rock. even though i was really excited for this series since i'm an avid lover of pioneer fiction i just am unsure whether i want to potentially waste my time with it. everything felt so two-dimensional in this book and the only thing that really held my interest was that i was able to control the story in the slightest.
tldr: meh
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The Race to Chimney Rock (The Oregon Trail, #1)
Jesse Wiley
Go west, young pioneerâyour journey begins here! In this first leg of your trek on the Oregon Trail, you need to find your way to Chimney Rockâbut not without unpredictable challenges ahead. This is the first installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territoryâ if you make the right choices.
In book one of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and your first goal is to get your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen to Chimney Rock on time. But hurryâyou'll need to make it through the rugged mountains before winter snow hits. Plus, there are wild animals, natural disasters, unpredictable weather, fast-flowing rivers, strangers, and sickness that will be sure to stand between you and your destination!
  Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With twenty-two possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Chimney Rock on time. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!
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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Ray Anthony Shepard
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how muchâand how littleâhas changed for Black Americans since our countryâs founding.
Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals the universal importance of its subjectsâ struggles for justice. From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by Americaâs first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black president, all of Shepardâs protagonists fight valiantly for justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they can. Â But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard â whose maternal grandfather was enslaved â shows how the grand sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers to complete the vast work that remains to be done.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?"
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
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