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• The Light Pirate

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily, 1987-

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  January 29 - As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker for the local utility…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

  Imai Messina, Laura,

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  February 26 - When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jimmy Bluefeather

  a Novel

  Heacox, Kim,

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  March 26 - When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Language of Flowers

  A Novel

  Diffenbaugh, Vanessa

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  April 23 - The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Lord Bird

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  May 28 - Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

• Girl, Woman, Other

  Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-

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  June 25 - The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Fires Everywhere

  Ng, Celeste,

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  July 30 - In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me American

  a Memoir

  Iftin, Abdi Nor,

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  August 27 - Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop artists like Michael Jackson and watching films starring action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There There

  a Novel

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  September 24 - Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick,

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  October 22 - Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino... and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hula

  a Novel

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani,

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  November 19 - Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the…Read moreRead more of this annotation