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Customs and cultures, Self help
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Based on the research that race, gender, disability, and other important topics should be discussed with toddlers on up, this…
read-aloud series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism, this topic-driven picture book offers clear, concrete language and compelling imagery to introduce the concept of disability. This book celebrates all bodies and abilities, just as they are, and addresses the inequities and opportunities for change in today's world.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 talking about tough issues from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice. These books offer a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult. Stunning art accompanies the simple and interactive text, and the back matter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.
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General fiction, Family stories
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A witty and heartwarming escape about mothers and daughters, small-town dating, and the surprising ways we find our way home.When…
Gigi Jenkins finds herself broke, unemployed, and out of options, she has no choice but to return to Mackinac Island, the horse-and-buggy hometown she swore she'd left behind forever.Living under the same roof with her meddling, divorced mother, Eloise, feels like a recipe for disaster--especially when Eloise hatches a scheme to set Gigi up with the island's charming new doctor.Determined to call her mother's bluff, Gigi agrees to the date on one condition: she gets to play matchmaker for Eloise in return.What begins as a battle of wills spirals into a summer of small-town antics, unexpected sparks, and plot twists neither woman saw coming.But the greatest love story of the summer isn't about romance--it's about the bond between mother and daughter. Through late-night date debriefs, outfit consultations, and learning to laugh (and forgive), Gigi and Eloise begin to bridge years of misunderstanding, moving from adversaries to confidantes.With Lindsay MacMillan's signature wit and warmth, Summer on Lilac Island is a joyful, tender tale of second chances, new beginnings, and the countless forms love can take.
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Adventure stories, Christian fiction, General fiction
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The end of the world . . .As leader of a special military unit charged with stopping potential pandemics before…
they spread, John "Haggs" Haggerty has a front-row seat to the sharp increase in natural disasters that precede the Rapture--including plagues, earthquakes, famines, wars, and rumors of war. And each crisis is becoming more intense.Meanwhile, his own world feels like it's falling apart. He's still caught in the grief of messing up his relationship with his ex-wife, and he's trying to keep it together so that he can show up for his adult daughter before she wants him out of her life entirely. As both personal and professional situations push him to the brink, Haggs finds himself stretched further than ever in his desire to be the kind of good person he knows he should be.Just when it seems as if things might turn around, Haggs is forced to decide between his need to find solutions and his need for personal redemption.
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Poetry, General non-fiction
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Winner of the 2025 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry AwardShimmering to the pulse of the unseen, By Stone and Needle circles…
like a compass needle around the figure of the witch. Catherine Carter concocts a book of secular spells and incantations for engaging with, and meditating upon, a world in which all things are connected, in which symbol slides into literal, spirituality into science, exact observation into lamentation and love.The poems in By Stone and Needle spin connecting threads between night sweats, witch drownings, creation stories, pedicures, goddesses—and, especially, between miraculously interconnected ecosystems and the forces that threaten them. Speakers encompass personae including lactobacilli bacteria, bodily yeasts, and the classical witch Medea, while elsewhere a contemporary version of the goddess Artemis appears in Appalachia. Carter’s poetic vision imbues everyday moments such as putting on a coat, piercing an ear, confronting racism and patriarchy, or eating onion slices with a new definition of magic as “the human thing.”
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Journals and memoirs, United States travel and geography
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In Crush Nicholas O&’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world&’s most prestigious wineries…
on the West Coast. This insider&’s view of the wine world includes the intense competition for the best grapes, the bizarre lingo of the tasting rooms, and the visionary winemakers who magically transform grapes into high-end wine. It is a world that includes not only romance and refinement but long hours, backbreaking labor, mind-numbing repetition, and fanatical dedication to quality. Such devotion resulted in the 1973 Stag&’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet that won the best red wine at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and transformed the U.S. wine industry. O&’Connell&’s quest to master the art of wine making begins in his garage. From there he embarks on an apprenticeship at Betz and DeLille Cellar and other great wineries in California, Oregon, and Washington. He provides a first-person, ground-up view of a business not yet fully explored despite record interest in wine. O&’Connell also includes conversations with some of the world&’s most gifted vintners, including Warren Winiarski, former owner of Stag&’s Leap Wine Cellars. Wine is surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable cloud of descriptors—&“wet dog,&” &“kumquats,&” &“cat pee&”—and a fog of pretention. Crush pierces this fog with colorful, concrete storytelling, in-depth portraits of famous winemakers, and a lively, down-to-earth description of the process by which wine is made: not in the critic&’s mind but in the winery and vineyard.
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United States history, Religion
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Sacred Wonderland explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park a meaningful American icon.
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United States history, General non-fiction
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Local communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries commonly addressed the needs of refugees, defined broadly during the…
Progressive Era to include internally displaced people and economic migrants. These communities&’ efforts to assist people in need created a type of informal pop-up welfare system of short-term assistance that provided for hundreds, and often thousands of refugees. In A Great Many Refugees Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees. The ten case studies include a range of different causes that forced people to flee, including revolution, war, genocide, environmental disaster, and economic recession. Communities tapped into their local resources to provide for refugees, and this informal welfare proved—in the short term—remarkably efficient, effective, and, at times, flexible and innovative. However, local communities simply could not sustain their widespread relief efforts for long and providing meaningful and comprehensive long-term aid proved a near-universal failure. Krainz&’s examination of how Progressive Era residents cared for refugees uncovers a significant segment of welfare policies and practices that have remained largely obscured. These examples of informal, short-term assistance efforts profoundly challenge our standard depiction of local Progressive Era welfare practices as anemic and unresponsive to those in crisis.
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Sports biography, Baseball
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Ron Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with…
an outsized personality, entertaining many, offending a few, and hiding behind a cheerful and outrageous persona until life somehow proved unbearable. Everyone knew him, but nobody really did. Once an All-American tackle at Syracuse University, Luciano turned to umpiring after an injury derailed his professional football career, and he quickly moved up the Minor League ladder to reach the Majors in 1969. As a big, likable loser—Oliver Hardy in blue—he became a fan favorite in the American League, &“shooting&” runners with his forefinger, conducting a legendary feud with Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, and entertaining writers with outlandish baseball stories—some of which were even true. Even as he added years to his umpiring career and was considered among the game&’s best, some players and managers thought his showmanship detracted from his abilities. He later became a baseball color analyst on national TV before coauthoring a series of rollicking best-selling sports books. Away from the game, he loved Shakespeare and birdwatching. But his upbeat public face was at odds with his private struggle with depression. His suicide at age fifty-seven shocked and puzzled friends, fans, and readers alike. In Big Loosh Jim Leeke recounts Luciano&’s unlikely career, detailing his life as athlete, arbiter, sportscaster, writer, and mythmaker while separating fact from fiction amid the fanciful stories he loved to spin. As a friend said of Luciano, &“If you didn&’t like this man, you didn&’t like people.&”
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Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa chief Stumbling…
Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum&’s services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars. The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum&’s life experience. In Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum&’s autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.
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United States history, Indigenous peoples
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Today there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee…
Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community in conversation with other community members. Rising Above navigates Frey&’s upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community. In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.
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Criticism
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were &“too good…
to be altogether lost.&” And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth century. They were translated into dozens of languages; generations of children read them at school; and dedicated readers made pilgrimages to the settings of the Little House books. With the release of NBC&’s Little House on the Prairie series in 1974, Wilder was well on her way to becoming an international literary superstar. Simultaneously, however, the novels themselves began to slip from view, replaced by an onslaught of assumptions and questions about Wilder&’s values and politics and even about the books&’ authenticity. From the 1980s, a slow but steady critical crescendo began to erode Wilder&’s literary reputation. In Too Good to Be Altogether Lost, Wilder expert Pamela Smith Hill dives back into the Little House books, closely examining Wilder&’s text, her characters, and their stories. Hill reveals that these gritty, emotionally complex novels depict a realistic coming of age for a girl in the American West. This realism in Wilder&’s novels, once perceived as a fatal flaw, can lead to essential discussions not only about the past but about the present—and the underlying racism young people encounter when reading today. Hill&’s fresh approach to Wilder&’s books, including surprising revelations about Wilder&’s novel The First Four Years, shows how this author forever changed the literary landscape of children&’s and young adult literature in ways that remain vital and relevant today.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillers
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Late one night, while tending to his trap-line, a native Inuit stumbles across a clandestine rendezvous not far from one…
of the DEW line radar sites and is subsequently shot and killed. This incident brings RCMP intelligence officer, Inspector Jesse Thompson to the north. He gradually uncovers a Soviet network involving an agent and a paid mole in the Shingle Point site.
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Historical fiction
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Even in the prospering colony of New South Wales, it wouldbe far-fetched to think a convicted man could consider marrying…
the daughter of a wealthy property owner. But Remy has larger problems to contend with than Sara’s bigotedfather. Forced to leave the woman he loves behind, Remy faces overwhelming odds and an ordeal that threatens to strip him of everything; his pride, his strength, his health—even hislife.Sara has many strugglesof her own and when Remy finally thinks he has a future with Sara within his grasp, he is sent to a place where pain and suffering are everyday occurrences.Will the lovers ever find true happiness?
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Historical fiction
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In this book we catch up with most members of the extended Carstairs family. Annie is the eldest Carstairs girl.…
She has lived out at Bathurst westof the Blue Mountains sinceher birth in 1824. After visiting her brother Tim and his wife in Port Phillip in1843, Annie decides to stay there, seeking adventure much asTim did the previous year. Reserved and quiet Jacob O’Quinn works for her brother. The likeable young carpenter catches Annie’s eye, but when handsome Zachary McDowell, the complete opposite to steady Jacob comes along, he sweeps Annie off her feet. Heedless of advice, Annie makes a choice that turns out to be the worst she could ever make.
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Historical fiction
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By 1840 the colony of New South Wales was expanding. Transportation of convicts to the east coast ended, and many…
free squatters set out to settle on lands to the south. In 1836 The Port Philip District became a separate colony.Timothy, Tiger and Bella Carstairs eldest son, is bored with his governmen tjob and intent on seeking adventure and a new life away from Sydney. Accompanied by his Uncle Carlos he decidesto find this adventure,and where else to find it, but in a newlyformed settlement down south. By now the road south might not be as hazardous as the one across the mountains travelled by his parents when he was a child, but still escaped and ex-convicts abound, seeking an easy life by forming gangs to take what they can where they can. Not the least of Tim’s personal challenges is a young headstrong woman who, uninvited, takes it upon herself to join him on his travels. When they reach their destination, their troubles have only just begun.
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Historical fiction
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In the 1800s the penal colony of Botany Bay was an unforgiving and harsh place. Isabella is transported for wounding…
a member of the British aristocracy. She loathes the system tha tsentenced her to seven years transportation, and is determined to hate her new master who dreams of a new life beyond the Blue Mountains. Mystic Australia is a story of courage and persistence -essential traits for the settlers who carved out a new life in a raw land where suffering and heartbreak were commonplace. The pair face many hardships in their quest for a new life in this untamed land.
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The quaint New England coastal town of Mystic Port is steeped in history, and has more than its fair share…
of restless sprits. Prudence Trivit, the town’s librarian and historian, is on a mission to exonerate her great Aunt Alexandra, who in 1897 was accused and arrested for the murder of her husband, the mayor. Prudy is certain of her great aunt’s innocence. Prudy and Dylan become quite the investigative team. There are mishaps and mayhem as the spirit of Alexandra try’s to point them in the right direction and an opposing spirit tries to dissuade them.
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Fantasy
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Hamish McKenziestoodwelded to the spotasfifty million volts coursedthrough hisbody. Hewas dead before he hit the ground.Dealanchwas never wrong. Lightningstalksthe first-born…
ofthree generationsof theMcKenzieclanfromScotland toOttawa toSaskatchewanas eachsuccessive son looksover their shoulder knowing it was not aquestion of if, but whenthe paranormal would strike
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Mysteries and crime stories
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Texas PI Kelly McWinter has expanded his business and now operates McWinter Investigations. Kelly’s three person agency often works with…
the Fort Worth Sheriff’sDepartment and handles investigations as diverse as chicken killing ghosts, Mexican migrant cocaine smugglers, suspicious baby adoptions and the worst case Kelly’s ever handled, the kidnapping of nine year old Suzanna Hedley. Join Kelly, Cade and Stella as they match wits with a very sneaky ghost ,help out a suspicious nurse and try to negotiate a peacefu lunderstanding with the enforcement arm of a local Cartel.
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Customs and cultures, Archaeology
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A wide-ranging synthesis of research illuminating the lives of ancient people who lived in the deserts, mountains, and river valleys…
of the North American SouthwestThe two volumes of Bioarchaeology of the Southwest bring together more than 100 years of research into the lives of the ancient people of the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico. Featuring contributions from specialists working in academic, museum, and cultural resource management settings, these books make available knowledge from a variety of unpublished sources that have been difficult to access until now.The volume 1 chapters range from Colorado to central New Mexico and the Lower Pecos region of Texas, addressing the bioarchaeology of the Archaic hunters and foragers, the Basketmaker II people, and communities of the Mesa Verde region, Chaco Canyon, the Middle San Juan or Totah region, the Northern Rio Grande, and the Middle Rio Grande. Chapters discuss topics such as morphology and stature, biodistance, paleopathology, dental health, evidence of injuries and violence, and mortuary practice.With chapters representing hundreds of ancient communities dating from the Archaic to the early Historic period, Bioarchaeology of the Southwest demonstrates the range of topics that can be addressed through the contextualized study of human remains, the insights this field offers into the everyday experiences of people in the past, and the challenges and promise of collaborative approaches to this research. Together, these volumes constitute an unparalleled resource for understanding the history of bioarchaeology and critical issues impacting the future of the discipline in the region.Contributors: Anna Osterholtz | Rachael Byrd | Genevieve Woodhead | Ann L. W. Stodder| Kristin A. Kuckelman | Dawn M. Mulhern | Robin M. Cordero | Lexi O'Donnell | Cherie K. Walth | Catrina Banks Whitley | Charles Hilton | Nancy J. Akins | Ann M. PalkovichA volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen