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Alice
The Power of One
Bryce Courtenay
Peekay embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.
- Alice
Fiction
Joanna
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowar
Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways.
- Joanna
Non-Fiction
Matt
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Michael Chabon
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a hero
- Matt
Fiction
Gloria
Tilted: A Lean In Podcast
author
Tilted explores topics at the intersection of gender and culture – and brings you conversations with people pushing for change.
- Gloria
Podcasts
Gloria
Tamarindo
Brenda and Ana Sheila
A Latinx empowerment program with discussions on politics, culture, and how to keep your calma with well-being practices and self-love.
- Gloria
Podcasts
Laura
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo
This is a history of white male America and a scathing indictment of what it has cost us socially, economically, and politically.
- Laura
Non-Fiction
Teresa
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Marc A Brackett
Too many children and adults are ashamed of their feelings, and feel emotionally unskilled. This is a high-impact and fast-effect approach to understanding and mastering emotions.
- Teresa
Non-Fiction
Alison
Magic Lessons
Alice Hoffman
Vivid and enchanting, with a can’t-miss-it foray into the Salem Witch Trials. Maria invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns that love is the only thing that matters.
- Alison
Fiction
Rachael
Nod
Adrian Barnes
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they all shared the same golden dream.
- Rachael
Fantasy
Amy
Milo Armadillo
Jan Fearnley
When no one can find a pink, fluffy rabbit to give to Tallulah for her birthday, her grandmother knits her a pink, fluffy "thing" that they name Milo Armadillo, which proves to be a great present.
- Amy
Kids
Amy
Sad Animal Facts
Brooke Barker
A delightful and quirky compendium of the animal kingdom's more unfortunate truths, with over 150 hand-drawn illustrations.
- Amy
Non-Fiction
Tiffany
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras, the Great Depression.
- Tiffany
Historical Fiction
Jill and Joanna
The Book of Delights
Ross Gay
A genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. A powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.
- Jill and Joanna
Non-Fiction
Jeanne
You're Missing It
Brady Smith
A hilarious cautionary tale about what happens when you are glued to your phone. This timely story, brought to life with beautiful bold art, is a great reminder to slow down and savor time together.
- Jeanne
Kids
Jeanne
Sticks and Stones
Patricia Polacco
When Patricia starts at a new school she quickly becomes fast friends with fellow outcasts Thom and Ravanne and together they find a way to silence the school bully and his toadies.
- Jeanne
Kids
Jeanne
The Turtle Walk
Matt Phelan
A family of turtles goes for a long, long walk that has an unexpected and very fun ending.
- Jeanne
Kids
Jeanne
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd
While this novel contains the historical rather than theological Jesus as a character, it is really the story of his fictional wife, Ana.
- Jeanne
Historical Fiction
Jeanne
The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult
Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. What does a life well-lived look like? Do we make choices...or do our choices make us?
- Jeanne
Fiction
Alice
The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge. This wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
- Alice
Fiction
Sarah
Perestroika in Paris: A Novel
Jane Smiley
A captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals,and a young boy, whose lives intersect in Paris Paras. It is anadventure that celebrates curiosity and ingenuity.
- Sarah
Fiction
Laura
To Hold Up the Sky
Cixin Liu
Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.
- Laura
SciFi
Laura and Teresa
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor
Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
- Laura and Teresa
Non-Fiction
Jill
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Identical twin sisters lives are very different as adults. This is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing.
- Jill
Fiction
Carli
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. The journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic.
- Carli
Fantasy
Carli
Dune
Frank Herbert
DUNE is a Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire.
- Carli
SciFi
Gloria
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote island, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
- Gloria
Kids
Gloria
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic is a 2020 Gothic horror novel. A young woman investigated her cousin's claims that her husband is trying to murder her. It injects fresh blood into a classic genre.
- Gloria
Horror
Joanna
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone: Harry Potter Series, Book 1
J. K. Rowling
The first installment in the series assembles an unforgettable magical world and sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come.
- Joanna
Kids
Alison
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Humorous, compassionate, and wise, this an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope.
- Alison
Fiction
Dawn
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Lauren Redniss
This is about an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation.
- Dawn
Non-Fiction
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