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TIME OUTSixteen-year-old Barclay Elliot, captain of the high school basketball team, watches the clock of his life tick down second by second. Nearly a...
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TRANSFORMATIVE GRIEFEach of us, the author asserts, will have “multiple relationships to the losses we experience,” and those relationships can take a variety of...
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THE SOUND OF A GUITARDazzled after watching her older cousin Keeley shredding with a band in the park, Mia uses book and web resources to find out about the history...
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DANCING ON A CRACK IN A HOLLOW HOUSE“Examining our story allows us to determine how our future chapters evolve,” writes the author, as writing allows one to “move from a bystander...
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THE BRAINIAC'S BOOK OF ROBOTS AND AIStarting out with a superficial checklist designed to distinguish robots from “non-bots” (“Does it move?” “Is it automatic?”) and a list of...
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WILD DANCESVietnamese American BBC journalist Adams begins with his unconventional youth in rural Georgia as an effeminate boy saddled with a homophobic,...
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STILL POSITIVEIn 1990, doctors could not tell the author, a young mother, why she was growing increasingly exhausted. A comment from her mother about HIV...
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ROGUE JUSTICELast time out, Keene, a Black woman in her late 20s who worked for loose cannon Justice Howard Wynn, who’s White, used damaging information he...
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THE BASTARD OF BEVERLY HILLSThe author, a film director, presents a brief but engaging and surprise-filled memoir of a man whose true identity was kept from him well into...
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QUANTUM CRIMINALS“There really is a Rikki.” Die-hard Steely Dan fans already knew this, but for the rest of us—who arguably fall somewhere between worshiping...
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TOM CLANCY FLASH POINTTrouble with China begins brewing (yet again in the Clancy books) with the rendition of a Chinese scientist and the killing of his American...
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MÈO AND BÉNine-year-old Bé is happy in her village in South Vietnam, but with the war encroaching on their home, her father decides that it’s safer for...
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ALL GOOD IN THE HOODMom, Dad, and Big Bro are ready to walk to the center of town for the big celebration, but the narrator, Lil’ Bro, feels more comfortable and...
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AUSTRALJulio Gamboa, the protagonist of Costa Rica–born Fonseca’s third novel, has headed from Cincinnati to a small town in northern Argentina’s...
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NOTES ON HER COLOR“My mother could change the color of her skin”: Gabrielle, the narrator, has inherited this gift, which she calls “passing.” Gabrielle is about...
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THE LOCK-UPWhen Rosa Jacobs is found dead in a garage, it initially looks like an open-and-shut case. The body of the 27-year-old woman, a history scholar...
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A BREAST CANCER JOURNEYIn July 2019, the author received a call from her doctor reporting an abnormality in her recent mammogram; more imaging tests were needed. “I...
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WHY FATHERS CRY AT NIGHT“This is not a traditional memoir,” writes Newbery Medalist Alexander in the first of three introductions. “These are just snapshots of a man...
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SING, MEMORYDrawing on abundant archival sources, Paris-based journalist Eyre makes his book debut with a well-researched dual biography of two men who...
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FIRES IN THE DARKJamison, author of An Unquiet Mind , Touched With Fire , and Night Falls Fast , opens with a graceful portrait of Sir William Osler...
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AMERICAN CHILDHOODCulled from more than 2,000 images, this book by journalist and historian Brewster brings together more than 200 photographs from museum...
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AN AMERIKAN FAMILY“The legacy of the Shakur family exists all around us—in culture, activism, and our professional lives,” writes journalist Holley. Best known is...
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PLANES, TRAINS, AND ALL THE FEELSCassidy Bliss is desperate to catch a flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles so she can help her sister, Isabelle, have the wedding of her...
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LOVE LOST ON CLOUD 9As the story opens, Sharon Walsh is driving to Nettlestone, New Hampshire, to move into her new home with her husband, Kip, a local morning...
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OF LIGHT AND SHADOWOrphaned at birth, adopted, and brought up by the leader of the Shadow Clan, Roshan’s innate healing powers take a back seat to guerilla raids...
