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81) Hyphen
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has persisted, bringing and bridging new words and concepts. Hyphen follows the story of the hyphen from antiquity - "Hyphen" is derived from an ancient Greek word meaning "to tie together" -...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches...
Author
Series
Mirror sisters volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of The Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters made to act, look, and feel truly identical by their perfectionist mother. Alike in every way...with one dark exception. As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be identical: their clothes, their toys, their friends...the number of letters in...
84) Dear child
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
86) Cherry: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
Author
Language
English
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Description
Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages. -
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Some things are better left forgotten . . . When a woman wakes up with amnesia beside a mountain highway, confused and alone, she fights to regain her identity, only to learn that her parents have disappeared--not long after her mother bought a winning $47 million lottery ticket. As her memories painfully resurface and the police uncover details of her parents' mysterious disappearance, Cleo Li finds herself under increasing suspicion. Even with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion. While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that...
92) Is he a girl?
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
93) I know who I am
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Using concepts from scripture and featuring diverse global representation, I Know Who I Am invites children to discover and declare the power and the beauty of God's truth about their identity in Him"--
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it demands a reimagination of the city and how class, city life and identity combine. Too often, this leads to divisions, such as the middle class flight to the suburbs, leaving the inner cities in desperate straits....
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small- town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch's signature blend of memoir,...
97) The box turtle
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Terrance the turtle was born without a shell, so he uses a cardboard box instead. Terrance loves his box. It keeps him dry on soggy days, safe from snooping strangers, and is big enough to cozy up with a friend. But when another turtle points out that Terrance's shell is, well, weird, he begins to wonder whether there might be a better shell out there..."--
98) The secret life of secrets: how our inner worlds shape well-being, relationships, and who we are
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Think of a secret that you're keeping from others. It shouldn't take long; behavioral scientist Michael Slepian finds that on average, we are keeping as many as thirteen secrets at any given time. His research involving more than 50,000 participants from around the globe shows that the most common secrets include: lies we've told, addiction or mental health challenges, a hidden relationship, financial struggles, and more. Our secrets can weigh heavily...
99) Otra vida
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Obsesionada por encontrar al asesino de su hermana, Julia se sumerge en el perturbador y fascinante mundo del cibersexo y se embarca en una relación extrema con un desconocido. Pero él, ¿la ha encontrado a ella por azar o estaba buscándola?"--Page 4 of cover.
Obsessed with finding the murderer of her sister, Julia is immersed in the disturbing and fascinating world of cybersex and embarks on an extreme relationship with a stranger. But has he...
100) Wonderful you
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What makes you, YOU? We are all special and unique. But we also have more in common than we think! Everyone should feel free to be ourselves because, in the end, when we come together we make the world an AMAZING place."--Inside front jacket flap.
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