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Hello! Who do you see and hear in the woods today? Meet a variety of woodland and water animals in this story written in Anishinaabemowin and English.
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/ grades 4
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The Scooter Twins
Twins Melvin and Melanie are excited to get their first mobility scooters. But will it change how the world sees them and how they see themselves?
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The poems in Karen Solie’s sixth collection explore the intersection of cultural, economic, and personal ideas of value.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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The Riveter
For readers of The English Patient and All the Light We Cannot See comes a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe in WWII.
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Everything Is Fine Here
A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.
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The Immortal Woman
A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
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Fugue With Bedbug
The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza.
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Go Home
In a small New Hampshire town, two teenagers from vastly different backgrounds find their future dreams challenged by family trauma and racism.
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ages 6
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Loop de Loop
Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems!
