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Find a Fresh Read! This special collection of high interest and engaging book titles, containing fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels, is perfect for adult readers of all ages and reading abilities. Find a Fresh Read! This special collection of high interest and engaging book titles, containing fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels, is perfect for adult readers of all ages and reading abilities. Show less

Jim Trelease's Read-aloud Handbook

by Trelease, Jim

Book - 2019

Recommended by 'Dear Abby' upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more th...Show more Recommended by 'Dear Abby' upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Show less

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How to Raise A Reader

by Paul, Pamela

Book - 2019

Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Philosopher's Stone? Co...Show more Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Philosopher's Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, How to Raise a Reader, from the authors of the original and viral New York Times Books feature, shows you how to instil the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading. Divided into four sections, from baby through teen, and each illustrated by a different artist, this book offers something useful on every page, whether it's how to develop rituals around reading or build a family library, or ways to engage a reluctant reader. Show less

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The Read-aloud Family

Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections With your Kids

by Mackenzie, Sarah

Book - 2018

Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids Show less

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Martyr!

by Akbar, Kaveh

Book - 2024

Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s first novel is about many things – immigration, addiction, grief, racism, and bi-culturalism, to name a few. It is als...Show more Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s first novel is about many things – immigration, addiction, grief, racism, and bi-culturalism, to name a few. It is also about making words mean what you want them to mean and trying to answer the question: what does creating art through the written word have to do with living a good life and ending it with dignity. Show less

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James

A Novel

by Everett, Percival

Book - 2024

A radical and necessary re-imagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett places Jim’s story of enslavement and fight for ...Show more A radical and necessary re-imagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett places Jim’s story of enslavement and fight for freedom at the center of the novel. Reading and a simple pencil play a powerful and central role in James’s journey to freedom. Show less

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Reading for Our Lives

A Literacy Action Plan From Birth to Six

by Smart, Maya Payne

Book - 2022

Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gi...Show more Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all. Show less

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Forever Free

A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy

by Bailey, Tracy Swinton

Book - 2021

An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. Show less

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Black Ink

Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

Book - 2018

Writers testify to the significance of reading and writing in their lives. (Kirkus Reviews) Writers testify to the significance of reading and writing in their lives. (Kirkus Reviews) Show less

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

by Douglass, Frederick

Book - 2014

The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his ...Show more The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. Show less

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I Am Malala

How One Girl Stood up for Education and Changed the World

by Yousafzai, Malala

Book - 2014

I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said...Show more I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. Show less

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The Story of My Life

by Keller, Helen

Book - 2010

Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even ...Show more Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life . Show less

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The Source of Self-regard

Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

by Morrison, Toni

Book - 2019

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. Show less

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Ordinary Notes

by Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth

Book - 2023

Told through a series of 248 notes, this volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake of it, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature Told through a series of 248 notes, this volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake of it, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature Show less

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Angela Davis

An Autobiography

by Davis, Angela Y.

Book - 2021

Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print Show less

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