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by Angone, Paul, author.

Publication Date: 2018

Summary:

Full of valuable advice and a generous helping of humor, discover 101 questions that will help you ditch your fears, grab on to hope, and believe you're doing something worthwhile again.

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by Fussner, Kate, author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Nina always followed her older sister, Lily. But just before her thirteenth birthday, Lily died, leaving Nina behind forever. In the three years since she lost her sister, Nina has completed Lily's secret Before Birthday lists to continue in her footsteps. But now Nina is catching up. When Nina flies to Paris, France, and completes tasks that Lily never finished, Nina finds herself magically transported inside of her own memories, face-to-face with the ghosts of her past.

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by Browne, Mahogany L., author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.--

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by Berners-Lee, Mike, author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution, inequality, and more. What, exactly, has been holding us back? Mike Berners-Lee looks at the challenge from new angles. He stands further back to gain perspective; he digs deeper under the surface to see the root causes; he joins up every element of the challenge; and he learns lessons from our failures of the past.

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by Grimes, Nikki, author.; Johnson, Cathy Ann, 1964- illustrator.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Together, Grandma and Grandbaby venture into the garden to gather the gentler sounds of nature in their cup of quiet, slowing down and spending a special day together--

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by Hall, Kirsten, author.; Turk, Evan, illustrator.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Beautifully illustrated by an award-winning artist, this cento poem about experiencing a forest with all of your senses will make the perfect read-aloud for nature lovers and curious explorers--

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by Carstensen, Jeanne, author.; Pugliese, Paul J., cartographer.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. On October 28, 2015, a boat meant for only a few dozen passengers capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hundreds of refugees, forced in desperation onto the overloaded boat manned by armed smugglers, were tossed into a roiling sea. The resulting loss of life, the largest in a single day during the crisis in the Aegean, shocked the world.

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by Freeburg, Gary L., 1948- author, artist, photographer.

Publication Date: 2024

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by Abbate, Carolyn.; Parker, Roger, 1951-

Publication Date: 2012

Summary:

A bold, engaging exploration of opera's fundamental nature and enduring appeal, from the sixteenth century to the present. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political, and literary backgrounds, its economic circumstances, and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. The authors examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works-- once opera's lifeblood-- have shrunk to a tiny minority and have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire.

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by Maire, Quentin, editor.; Matthews, Julie (Professor of education), editor.

Publication Date: 2025

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by Awake, Robell, author.; Holland, Johnalynn, illustrator.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Ten illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship--

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by Badie, Bertrand, author.; Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Bertrand Badie argues that states and the many other actors now operating in the international arena are products of their cultural contexts and political traditions. Their perspectives and motivations are profoundly subjective in character and are shaped by the narratives, memories and emotions that constitute people’s everyday realities. In Badie’s view, international disputes in the twenty-first century are best understood through the concept of the ‘battle for meaning’, confrontations between different modes of understanding the world.

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by Cubbage, Mike.

Publication Date: 2016

Summary:

Mike Cubbage, a former Army combat veteran, draws upon his personal experiences in re-entering civilian life as well as his work advocating for veterans in this guide to navigating the transition to civilian life. While he shares tips in many areas, he focuses on education. Learn how to: find a school that will provide you with valuable support and skills; take advantage of military benefits that help day for education; cope with the stress that goes along with transitioning to civilian life; and apply skills you learned in the military to succeed as a student.

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by Arch, Xan, author.; Gilman, Isaac, author.

Publication Date: 2020

Summary:

Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success. The book makes the case - both explicitly and implicitly - that academic libraries can help address the known risk factors (e.g. by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and therefore improve success, persistence, and retention for first-generation students.

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by Chen, Cher Weixia, author.; Grande, Steven E., author.; Owen, Julie E., author.; McCarron, Graziella Pagliarulo, author.

Publication Date: 2025

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This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study that explores college students' perspectives on how their activism impacts their well-being.

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by Lyons, Rose, author.

Publication Date: 2023

Summary:

This is the essential 2-in-1 guide for not just surviving but thriving in college and in everyday adult life. From acing your academic pursuits to managing your personal finances with ease, this budle equips you with the skills necessary for a seamless transition into independence.

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by Morin, Amanda, author.

Publication Date: 2021

Summary:

In the age of COVID and chaos, social media and sky-high rents, adulting can be hard. But it doesn't have to be! This book answers questions young adults sometimes don't even know to ask. Chapters are ordered in a way that puts at the forefront what young people are thinking about now, with a new generation going into adulthood more likely to be living with family; politically and civically engaged; and using social media as a communication tool or platform.

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by Haulgren, Frank, author.

Publication Date: 2024

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by Miki, Roy, editor, contributor; Oikawa, Mona, 1955- editor, contributor; McAllister, Kirsten Emiko, editor, contributor

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Over the last two decades, critics of state redress and truth and reconciliation commissions have argued that state apologies are used to control and co-opt demands for justice. This volume contributes to these critiques, focusing on demands for justice made by Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians over the last thirty years. But this volume also examines the complex and often paradoxical process of redress and the settler-state's mechanisms for (re)conciliation from the perspectives of these communities, considering the repercussions for survivors and the next generations.

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by Craven, Margaret, author.; Miller, Joan (Illustrator), illustrator.

Publication Date: 1980

Summary:

The author recounts her life as a writer and explains how - at the age of 69 - she came to write her first novel.

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by DeWolfe, Elizabeth A., author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Madeleine Pollard was a Kentuckian with humble roots who had used charisma to work her way into the parlors of the Washington, DC, elite. Tucker hid behind an alias--Agnes Parker--but Pollard had a secret, too. Alias Agnes details the story of Jane Tucker, who took a job as an undercover detective with a ten-week mission. Her target: Madeleine Pollard, former mistress of Congressman William C. P.

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by Aveni, Anthony F., author.

Publication Date: 2024

Summary:

In this authoritative, accessible, and at times funny and irreverent work, distinguished anthropologist Anthony Aveni speaks to the trained astrophysicist and the curious layperson alike about a simple but previously unexplored question: Why do we assume aliens, if they are really out there, behave just like us? Aveni's newest work departs from the usual scientific treatment of extraterrestrial intelligence by probing the historical and widely neglected anthropological record, which offers relevant analogous incidents of contact among terrestrial cultures.

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by Efron, John M., author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

In Judaism, meat holds unparalleled significance, for it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and elaborate rules governing consumption, meat is the most visible not to mention gustatory marker of Jewish difference and social separation between Jews and non-Jews. It is an object of tangible, touchable, and tastable difference like no other.

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by Grandin, Greg, 1962- author.

Publication Date: 2025

Summary:

The story of how the United States' identity was formed is almost invariably told by looking east to Europe. But as Greg Grandin vividly demonstrates, the nation's unique sense of itself was in fact forged facing south--no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World Grandin reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other.

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