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Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
6 books (245 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 kit (198 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,000. Lafayette's arrival in 1824 coincided with one of...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality. This episode in a small Oklahoma town almost a half-century ago...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
10 books in a cloth bag ; 42 x 50 cm
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, book reviews, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
When adventurous Ebbin goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and search for his beloved brother-in-law. With his navigation experience, Angus is assured a position as a cartographer...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
8 paperback books (330 pages) in a cloth bag ; 30 x 40 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm)
Language
English
Description
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
1 book club in a bag ; 37 x 41 cm + 1 folder (30 x 25 cm)
Language
English
Description
A bag with ten copies of the title that may also include miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family. A first novel....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
8 books (622 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Product Description: One of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year. In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America....
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
8 books (294 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie, traveling with her family and her family's black maid Mary Luther--who has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect--encounters racial tension and tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
8 books (viii pages, 307 unnumbered pages) in a bag ; 36 x 45 cm
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and a folder containing book sign out sheets.
When longtime best friends Devera and BiDi of Flame Lake, Minnesota, long for change in their lives and Devera's husband opens a nightclub in their basement, a crisis ensues and the ability to forgive becomes much more important than new thrills.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
8 books (413 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm), + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title and 1 discussion folder.
Twenty-three-year-old Carrie Bell feels suffocated and wants to leave her life in Wisconsin, but when her fiancé is paralyzed in a diving accident, she must ask, how much do we owe the people we love? How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally...