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La Crosse, WI 54601
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Aug
12

TECH HELP DROP-IN ONLINE

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Age Group: Adult

TECH HELP DROP-IN ONLINE

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug 12, 2021
La Crosse Public Library Main
Age Groups: Adult
Program Type: Online, Technology
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Have questions you’d like to ask but would prefer to stay socially distanced? We’ll do our best to answer your tech questions during this Zoom session.  ...
Aug
13

Nature Lovers: Myrick Park Trails

3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Nature Lovers: Myrick Park Trails

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Aug 13, 2021
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Age Groups: School Age, Family
Program Type: Online
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Miss Dawn will go live on the library's YouTube page at a different trail each month....
Aug
13

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE MEMBERSHIP NIGHT

5:00pm - 7:00pm
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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE MEMBERSHIP NIGHT

5:00pm - 7:00pm
Aug 13, 2021
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: All Ages
Program Type: Book Sale
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Friends of the La Crosse Public Library are invited to attend the kick off night for our 2-day Summer Book Sale.  You can renew your membership at the door and new members are welcome to join for $10! ...
Aug
14

Courtyard Chapters- I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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Courtyard Chapters- I'm Thinking of Ending Things

10:00am - 11:00am
Aug 14, 2021
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Program Type: Book Discussion
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Looking for a relaxing start to your weekend? Join in our Courtyard Chapters Book Discussion!Chapters is our monthly book discussion group featuring popular fiction covering a variety of genres....
Aug
14

Friends of the Library Book Sale

10:00am - 2:00pm
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Friends of the Library Book Sale

10:00am - 2:00pm
Aug 14, 2021
La Crosse Public Library Main
Main Hall
Age Groups: All Ages
Program Type: Book Sale
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Need to stock up on reading materials? Stop by the Friends of the La Crosse Public Library book sale - a great way to support our fundraising efforts while getting some new books! We'll have tables and carts of materials arrang...
Aug
16

Maker Mondays

10:00am - 11:00am
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Maker Mondays

10:00am - 11:00am
Aug 16, 2021
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Join the fun in getting your mind and hands engaged with crafts.  During this open maker time, bring a project to work on or stop in and try your hand at something new.  COVID-19 protocols will be in place - masks required.  No regi...
Aug
16

Maker Mondays

11:00am - 12:00pm
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Maker Mondays

11:00am - 12:00pm
Aug 16, 2021
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Age Groups: Adult
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Join the fun in getting your mind and hands engaged with crafts....
Aug
17

Chair Fitness

10:00am - 11:00am
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Chair Fitness

10:00am - 11:00am
Aug 17, 2021
Outreach
Age Groups: Adult
Program Type: Class
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Session 3: July 27th and August 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th...
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New Arrivals

  • A Theater for Dreamers

    A Theater for Dreamers

    Polly Samson

    "Sublime and immersive . . . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend." —Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of Me Before You "This gorgeous, glimmering summer read is itself perfect summer: irresistible and deep, Samson's lyric sentences pulling you into unforgettable sunlight and shadow." —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses It’s 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution.

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  • Heaven

    Heaven

    Mieko Kawakami

    From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies. Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation.

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  • The Book of Otto and Liam

    The Book of Otto and Liam

    Paul Griner

    "May and Otto Barnes have a perfect life: she an engineer, he a freelance artist, new friends in a new town, and a bright, 8 year-old boy. But their world is shattered when their son is wounded in a school shooting and his best friend killed, and, while Liam fights for life, hoaxers begin to harass Otto, trying to force him to admit the shooting never happened. Desperate to stop them, Otto tries to track down the lead hoaxer, a mysterious, hard to find woman named Kate.

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  • The Committed

    The Committed

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    The sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism, dealing drugs in 1980s Paris but unable to escape his past

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  • Sunrise by the Sea

    Sunrise by the Sea

    Jenny Colgan

    New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rosso can't understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly?

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  • Version Zero

    Version Zero

    David Yoon

    From the brilliant mind of New York Times bestselling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and scorchingly observant thriller about how we can save ourselves from the very real perils of a virtual world. Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley.

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  • You Are Here

    You Are Here

    Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner

    "A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--

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  • Life After Death

    Life After Death

    Sister Souljah

    Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Instant USA TODAY Bestseller The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever. Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up.

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  • A History of the Human Brain

    A History of the Human Brain

    Bret Stetka

    “A History of the Human Brain is a unique, enlightening, and provocative account of the most significant question we can ask about ourselves.” —Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on a path to extinction, until a dramatic shift occurred. We used our mental abilities to navigate new terrain and changing climates. We hunted, foraged, tracked tides, shucked oysters—anything we could do to survive. Before long, our species had pulled itself back from the brink and was on more stable ground. What saved us?

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  • The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

    The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

    Tom Lin

    An astounding debut that reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors. "In Tom Lin's novel, the atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy's West, or that of the Coen Brothers' True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.

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  • Traveling Black

    Traveling Black

    Mia Bay

    What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today.

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  • The Wolf and the Woodsman

    The Wolf and the Woodsman

    Ava Reid

    In the vein of Naomi Novik's New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden's national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut-- inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology--follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant. In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods.

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  • Canary in the Coal Mine

    Canary in the Coal Mine

    William Cooke

    One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future--and exposed a national health crisis. When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America.

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  • Firebreak

    Firebreak

    Nicole Kornher-Stace

    "New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.

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  • The Last Thing to Burn

    The Last Thing to Burn

    Will Dean

    “Immediate, intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Girl A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape.

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  • This Magnificent Dappled Sea

    This Magnificent Dappled Sea

    David Biro

    Two strangers--generations and oceans apart--have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that attach us. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith.

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  • The Book of Kane and Margaret

    The Book of Kane and Margaret

    Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi

    "More like a tapestry than a traditional novel, The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi blends magical elements with stories based on the oral narratives of the author's grandparents and their experiences during the 1940s at the Tulare Assembly Center and the Gila River War Relocation Center, two WWII relocation camps in Arizona. The author's technique gives the novel the effect of working through accretion, collecting one-breath fictions and conversations with recurring names, voices, and themes that explore a carceral setting"--

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  • A Girl Is a Body of Water

    A Girl Is a Body of Water

    Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    Award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's epic origin story is a beautiful and devastating portrait of a family of women: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each other.

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  • Heart of Fire

    Heart of Fire

    Mazie K. Hirono

    "A memoir from the United States senator, who "traces her ... life from her upbringing in Hawaii, where [her] family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a ... legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity, lack of healthcare access, and family separation. Finally, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today"--

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  • The Portrait

    The Portrait

    Ilaria Bernardini

    “Electric. A wildly astute plunge into the depths of love, rivalry, betrayal and the power of women.”—Bill Clegg An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Martìn Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during her lover's final days, Valeria commissions his artist wife, Isla, to paint her portrait—insinuating herself into Martìn's family home and life.

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Staff Picks

  • Intimations

    Intimations

    Zadie Smith

    Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lock down, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time "There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those -- the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed.

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  • Crossover, Volume 1

    Crossover, Volume 1

    Donny Cates

    DONNY CATES and GEOFF SHAW reunite for an epic and historic seriesthat's AVENGERS: ENDGAME meets CLOVERFIELD with a good dose of thequesting of THE DARK TOWER series thrown in for good measure. Imagineeverything you thought was fantasy...was real. And now join us, in a world wherereality is dead...and anything is possible... Collects CROSSOVER#1-6

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  • Cyclopedia Exotica

    Cyclopedia Exotica

    Aminder Dhaliwal

    “The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In The Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica.

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  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction -- at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal -- is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film. RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH - Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

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  • Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger 1)

    Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger 1)

    Amy Timberlake

    Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake with full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. No one wants a skunk. They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger can do about it. When Skunk plows into Badger’s life, everything Badger knows is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed.

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  • The Flame

    The Flame

    Leonard Cohen

    “There are very, very few people who occupy the ground that Leonard Cohen walks on.” —BONO The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.

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  • Homesick for Another World

    Homesick for Another World

    Ottessa Moshfegh

    An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories.

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  • Death in Daylesford

    Death in Daylesford

    Kerry Greenwood

    "When a mysterious invitation arrives for the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher from an unknown retired Captain Herbert Spencer, Phryne's curiosity is piqued. Spencer runs a retreat in Victoria's rural spa country for shell-shocked veterans of World War I. It's a cause after Phryne's own heart, but what can Spencer want from her? Phryne and her faithful servant Dot set out for Daylesford, viewing their rural sojourn as a short holiday.

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  • You Never Forget Your First

    You Never Forget Your First

    Alexis Coe

    "In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home.

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    Four Hundred Souls

    Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain

    "A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star.

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  • Check, Please!: # Hockey

    Check, Please!: # Hockey

    Ngozi Ukazu

    Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking. And then, there is Jack—his very attractive but moody captain.

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  • Under a White Sky

    Under a White Sky

    Elizabeth Kolbert

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? "A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time."--Nature That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

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  • How Are We Going to Explain This?

    How Are We Going to Explain This?

    Jelmer Mommers

    There’s a new story in the making, one in which the consequences of our actions add up—and every contribution is meaningful. If climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, then why are we doing so little about it? And where do we go from here? Journalist Jelmer Mommers knows most people prefer not to talk or even think about climate change, and that is exactly why he wrote this book. Denial and despair are not the only possible responses to the current crisis.

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  • The Jasmine Throne (Hardcover Library Edition)

    The Jasmine Throne (Hardcover Library Edition)

    Tasha Suri

    In this "fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale of endurance and revolution set against a gorgeous, unique magical world" (S. A. Chakraborty), two women--a long-imprisoned princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic--come together to rewrite the fate of an empire. Exiled by her despotic brother, Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance, while trapped in the Hirana, an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. The secrets of the Hirana call to Priya.

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  • Vinegar Girl

    Vinegar Girl

    Anne Tyler

    Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough.

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  • Day Zero

    Day Zero

    C. Robert Cargill

    "From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose and agency in a crumbling world"--

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  • Firekeeper's Daughter

    Firekeeper's Daughter

    Angeline Boulley

    A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.

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  • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

    The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

    Dawnie Walton

    "Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records.

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  • Remote Control

    Remote Control

    Nnedi Okorafor

    An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor “She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.” The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa—a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall.

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  • The Girls I've Been

    The Girls I've Been

    Tess Sharpe

    When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.

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