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1) 47,000 beads
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Rampant
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing less and less. When Peyton shares that she just can't be comfortable wearing a dress anymore, Auntie Eyota asks some friends for help to get Peyton what she needs."--
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work -- The Lady with the Dark Hair -- her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--this is the author's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest. Moving fluidly between considerations of the hip-hop group NWA, Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department ("flames rose like orchids . . . blocks...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefully planned life"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Dami, a nonbinary former demonio, must cancel every deal they have ever made in order to tether their soul to earth and remain human, but first they must help a boy named Silas find Captain Kidd's treasure and break a family curse.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--
What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship...
11) Out of body
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The teeny-weeny unicorn feels like the world is not made for his small stature and one day it bothers him so much he runs off, but soon after meeting a salty gnome he starts to wonder if he might just be the right size after all.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Discovering an orphaned wolf pup she believes is related to the five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Hunter has been killing one by one, Sona embarks on an epic adventure during which she realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts, and the future of Devia, is in her hands"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A standalone novel about Stranger Things's Lucas, and his journey of coming into his own personality, interests, and identity"--
The thrilling adventure of Stranger Things continues where season three left off, with fan favorite Lucas Sinclair finally telling his own story in his own words.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a lady mistakes him for kitten, big hairy spider Luigi resists her kind advances until tasty breakfasts and getting tucked into bed convince him otherwise, but he soon learns what might be at stake when you pretend to be someone you're not.
Author
Series
Rainbow! (Sunny) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Teenager Boo Meadows has pink hair and a very vivid imagination -- she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows...
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
19) The spy and I
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Right place. Wrong person. After a case of mistaken identity, one woman must work with her sister's sexy spy partner to save the world in this heart-pounding romantic comedy. The first thing to know about Dove Barkley is that, even though she works as a cyber security analyst, she is one hundred percent not an undercover CIA operative. But when a group of bad guys mistake her for her super-spy sister (news to her!), Dove gets roped into a dangerous...
20) King cheer
Author
Series
Arden High volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Heartstopper meets Bring It On in this contemporary graphic novel that reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a queer dramedy! When cheer captain Leah steps down months before graduation, the team is shocked. Waitlisted by her dream college, questioning her identity, and suffering from senioritis, Leah needs to hand the captain’s poms off and focus on her future. But when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command...
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