'Stand Up And Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice' by Susanna Reich is a picture book intended for children in grades 3 through 7. But, like the music and message of Pete Seeger himself, it is really a book for everyone
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Interview with Isabel Roxas, Illustrator for Minh Lê’s ‘Let Me Finish!’
Interview with Isabel Roxas, a talented children's book illustrator in the Philippines and the U.S., highlights her love of animals and art.
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Han Kang again explores violence and human suffering, this time through the eyes of six characters at different points in their lives.
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'March: Book Three', by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. The congressman’s award-winning graphic novel trilogy reaches its absorbing conclusion.
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In a tale from childhood, 'Twisted' by Bonnie M Hennessy, takes you on an alternate journey to a dark and bleak tale of love and courage, filled with revenge and regret as well as a strength of spirit. Looking at the story of Rumpelstiltskin's rage and sadness, you follow The life of Aoife and a different path of how the lives of two such differing characters really came to being.
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The ocean holds mystery, wonder, and amazement. In 'Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean' Jonathan White wants to show you just a taste of that.
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Great novelists are artists, floating above the earth like butterflies. Writers of non-fiction are common laborers stumping along in steel-toed work boots, looking to raise a scaffold.
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In Shigeru Mizuki's 'Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon' a boy yokai hunts evil yokai in modern Japan.
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If you are in the mood to read some excellent writing and discover some excellent people in less than excellent circumstances, please consider adding 'Gotta Find A Home' by Dennis Cardiff to your life and bookshelf.
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This is a remarkable memoir, often painful but never bitter, full of great highs and deep lows
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