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"As David Brooks observes, 'There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.' And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out...
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2023.
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"From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs. Maria Bamford is a comedian's comedian (an outsider among outsiders) and has forever fought to find a place to...
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2024.
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Moving into an off-campus house with magnetic and addictive Lucy Sharpe and two other girls, shy and quiet Margot finally comes out of the shell she’s been in since her best friend Eliza died until one of the fraternity boys next door is murdered and Lucy goes missing.
5) Cazadora
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Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
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415 pages ; 22 cm.
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Tras los hechos acontecidos en Lobizona, Manu y sus amigos cruzan la mística frontera hacia Kerana, un reino maldito en Argentina, en busca de aliados y de un sitio donde esconderse. Mientras intentan descubrir el paradero del Aquelarre (una mítica manada de la resistencia que quizás ni siquiera existe), los Cazadores siguen los pasos de Manu, poniendo trampas para capturarla y arrestarla. Pero cuando parece que ya la tienen acorralada, el Aquelarre...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Otto is an ornament. He’s glittery, he’s colorful, he’s full of Christmas pizzazz! Otto wants to be at the top of the tree, not in the middle with all of the regular ornaments! Doesn’t he deserve to shine at the top? Will Otto be able to find the tree he dreams of and learn about kindness and chosen family along the way?" --publisher's website.
8) Millie
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A street dog named Millie and a young girl, who are both dealing with abandonment issues, give trust and belonging a second chance.
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Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
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244 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
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"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
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Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Olive Cobin Zang has… issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that’s now a “reforming arts school”! But nothing could’ve prepared Olive for RASCH (not “rash”). There, she’s lumped with a team of other kids who never...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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June 1945. Even as the people of France celebrate the end of World War II, they are overwhelmed by the recovery work which lies ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church, school, and hospital has been destroyed. Disparate factions, from Communists to Resistance fighters to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis, must somehow unite and rebuild their devastated country. Asher lost his family during the war, and in revenge, he served...
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