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Pub. Date
2023.
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For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show that remained hidden from their fans. Jill and Derick knew a normal life wasn't possible for them. As a star on the popular TLC reality show...
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"From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of one of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn't focus at school and caused trouble around the house. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. When he was only...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 373 pages ; 21 cm
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"Julia and her adopted brother, David, are sixteen-years-old. Julia is white. David is black. It is the mid-1980s and their family has just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and an all-encompassing racism. At home are a distant mother--more involved with her church's missionaries than her own children--and a violent father. In this riveting and heartrending memoir Julia Scheeres takes us from the Midwest to a...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva...
9) El lugar
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Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Una hija debe aceptar sus a�nos de formaci�on mientras escribe un retrato inquebrantable de su padre, el due�no de un caf�e cuya vida se ha vuelto muy extra�na para ella.
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her loneliness through her summer algebra class, the city itself, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults fail her again and again with devastating consequences. Dreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces that harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout...
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Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages ; 20 cm
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"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when shediscovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...
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Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
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207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be thirteen-sixteenths of anything and if so, what part of her constituted...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions―not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
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It's 1945, the final year of World War II. Yukie Kimura is eight years old. She lives on a tiny island with a lighthouse in the north of Japan with her family, and she knows that the fighting that once felt so far away is getting closer. Mornings spent helping her father tend to the lighthouse and adventuring with her brother are replaced by weeks spent inside, waiting. At some point, Yukie knows, they may be bombed. Then, it happens. One Sunday,...
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"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In this long-awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at...
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 29 cm
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"Star Trek actor, activist, and author George Takei shares his empowering and moving story about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII"--
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