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The Snowden Library New Fiction, Nonfiction & YA
October 1st, 2024 |
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Enchantment: awakening wonder in an anxious age
by Katherine May
From the author of Wintering comes an invitation to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe by exploring the restorative power of the natural world and identifying the quiet magic that can only be found when we look for it.
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Something lost, something gained: reflections on life, love, and liberty
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
The former first lady, senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.
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Not your China doll: the wild and shimmering life of Anna May Wong
by Katie Gee Salisbury
Set against the glittering backdrop of the Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this celebration of the first Asian American movie star shares how she resisted being typecast as a "China doll" or "dragon lady" and worked towards reshaping Asian American representation in film.
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The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
An award-winning narrative account of the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s chronicles the decades of migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West, told through the stories of three individuals and their families.
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The work of art: how something comes from nothing
by Adam Moss
In this guided tour inside the artist's head, the former editor-in-chief of New York magazine traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, movies, songs, and even jokes, by breaking down the work—the tortuous path of artistic decision-making—that leads to great art.
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The republic
by Plato
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three interlocutors, Plato's Republic explores the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it, addressing the purpose of education and the role of men and women as "guardians" of the people.
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The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Concludes the six-year investigation into the residential school system for Indigenous children and its legacy. This summary volume of the final report covers the history of residential schools, the legacy of that system, and the full text of the TRC's 94 Calls to Action.
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The mighty Red
by Louise Erdrich
Tracing the Red River, offering core samples from fracking unimaginable depths of time, and following characters revolving around a fraught wedding, the author tells a story of love, nature, spiritual yearning, and the tragic impact of environmental and financial ruin on one North Dakota town.
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Where they last saw her
by Marcie R. Rendon
A woman on Minnesota's Red Pine reservation learns of the disappearance of one of her own, and finally decides enough is enough; the investigation that follows asks searing questions of bystander culture, the reverberations of even one act of crime, and the lasting trauma of being made invisible. From the author of the Cash Blackbear series.
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The Métis
by Michel Noël and Sylvie Roberge
Learn about the rich culture of the Métis from their emergence in the early 1600s through today in this illustrated book with accessible text about Métis history and their struggle for recognition in Canada.
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Peter Fidler and the Métis
by Donna Lee Dumont
This personal reflection of Métis artist and author Donna Lee Dumont on her direct ancestors, the Hudson’s Bay Company explorer and mapmaker Peter Fidler and his Cree wife Mary Mackegonne, is interwoven with a history of Métis culture during the fur trade, the racism that forced many to deny their heritage, and the proud place they now have as one of Canada’s founding peoples.
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Fiddle dancer = Li daanseur di vyaeloon
by Anne Patton and Wilfred Burton ; Michif translation by Norman Fleury
While spending time with his “Mooshoom” or grandfather, Nolin learns about his Métis family's passion for traditional dance, and, reluctantly at first, finds himself joining in. With bilingual English and Michif text.
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Métis Christmas mittens = Lii mitenn Michif di Nowel
by Leah Marie Dorion ; Michif translation by Norman Fleury
A family-oriented people with a proud heritage, the Métis often give hand-made, practical gifts at Christmas that deepen cultural ties in lieu of expensive gifts. Here author-illustrator Leah Marie Dorion shares the Métis tradition of making mittens for loved ones. With bilingual English and Michif text.
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Assessing students, not standards: begin with what matters most
by Lee Ann Jung
A "next generation" approach to classroom assessment moves beyond standards to challenge educators to reflect on the connections between growth, mastery, and student self-efficacy, and to prioritize the transferable skills of metacognition and self-regulation in assessments.
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Seen, heard, and valued: universal design for learning and beyond
by Lee Ann Jung
The author uses the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a foundation for more equitable learning outcomes for all students. It focuses primarily on actionable strategies that educators can use to bring equity to learning outcomes in their classrooms and school communities.
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Get set, go!: creating successful grading and reporting systems
by Thomas R. Guskey
Builds on the framework for grading reform developed in On Your Mark, focusing on seven essential steps that K-12 teachers and administrators must take to adopt and implement a rigorous and meaningful new grading and reporting system.
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Send down the rain
by Charles Martin
After the death of her husband and the loss of her family's restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast, Allie crosses paths with her childhood sweetheart, Joseph, a Vietnam vet returned from the Carolina mountains, still wounded in body and spirit by the trauma of war.
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The promise
by Chaim Potok
Two young men in Brooklyn—student rabbi Reuven and his friend, Danny, who has abandoned Hasidic culture to become a psychologist—question the "orthodoxy" of their values and religion in a world cut off from their traditions as they both try to help an adolescent boy heading for a breakdown.
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The anthropologists
by Aysegèul Savas
Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and long breakfasts, this mesmerizing examination of homebuilding and modern love follows Asya and Manu as they open the horizons of their lives.
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We'll prescribe you a cat
by Ishida Syou ; translated by E. Madison Shimoda
Tucked away at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who genuinely need its help. The mysterious clinic offers an unconventional treatment for those struggling in their lives: bring home a cat. Patients are often puzzled by this prescription, but when they take their cat for the recommended duration, they experience a profound transformation.
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Chemistry
by Weike Wang
Losing her love for her chemistry major when her graduate studies lead to research failures and mounting stress, a Boston University student contemplates a marriage proposal from a more successful fellow scientist and pursues an entirely different kind of chemistry.
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Joan is okay
by Weike Wang
An ICU physician at a busy New York hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave and finds herself drawn into the social lives of people she's been happily ignoring for years when a compelling new neighbor moves into the apartment next door.
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Swan song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and ostentatious Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in a tight-knit Nantucket community, but when it burns to the ground and a key employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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Creation lake
by Rachel Kushner
Sadie Smith, a ruthless and cunning American secret agent, is dispatched to a rural France, where her mission is to keep tabs on a subversive commune's activists, and where she becomes entranced with their mysterious mentor, Bruno Lacombe. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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The night we lost him
by Laura Dave
As Nora and her estranged brother Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery of their father's death, they start putting together the pieces of his past and uncover a secret that challenges everything they thought they knew.
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Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
In order to rid the British Secret Service of "Le Chiffre," a lethal Soviet operative with a weakness for gambling, James Bond is sent to bankrupt him in a French casino, but the secret agent's cards are not cooperating.
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The appeal
by Janice Hallett
When the cast of a local theater group raises money for an experimental treatment for the director's granddaughter, who has a rare form of cancer, one member raises her concerns, creating tensions within the community that ultimately lead to murder, with 15 possible suspects.
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The Twyford code
by Janice Hallett
Out of prison after a long stretch, Steven “Smithy” Smith investigates a mystery that has haunted him for 40 years—the discovery of an unsolved code in the margins of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, which played a role in the disappearance of his English teacher.
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The mysterious case of the Alperton Angels
by Janice Hallett
Looking to revive her career by writing a book about the Alperton Angels cult, who convinced a teenaged mom her baby was the anti-Christ, true crime author Amanda Bailey, with the Alperton baby turning 18, seeks to uncover the truth behind the strange events.
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The examiner
by Janice Hallett
Told in emails and text messages, the author's trademark epistolary style in this page-turning whodunnit follows a group of six students in an art master's program that goes fatally awry.
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The river we remember
by William Kent Krueger
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found in a Minnesota river on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a decorated war hero, struggles to solve the murder casting a shadow on the town of Jewel, while putting his own demons to rest. By the author of Ordinary Grace.
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Proof
by Beverley McLachlin
Jilly Truitt always put her job as a criminal defense lawyer first, but becoming a mother has changed everything. For the first time in her career, she takes some long-overdue time away from her firm to enjoy motherhood. That is, until the daughter of celebrity pop star Trist Jones goes missing and his ex-wife is charged with her kidnapping. How will Jilly's own experience inform this high-stakes case? Third in the series.
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Here one moment
by Liane Moriarty
An ordinary domestic flight takes an extraordinary turn when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as the "Death Lady,” leading to a race against time for some, and for others, a chance to redefine their remaining time left.
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We solve murders
by Richard Osman
Investigator Steve Wheeler comes out of retirement when his daughter-in-law, Amy, a private security contractor, needs help finding out who left a dead body on a remote island with a huge bag of money. First in a new series by the author of the Thursday Murder Club books.
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Listen for the lie
by Amy Tintera
When Lucy's best friend Savvy is murdered, anyone could be the killer, and soon enough a true-crime podcast comes investigating in their Texas hometown and begins to tell versions of what happened—and what Lucy may have done to Savvy—to a nationwide, crime obsessed audience.
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All the colors of the dark
by Chris Whitaker
Set in a small Missouri town in 1975, this epic thriller follows man fixated on finding a missing woman and the FBI agent on his tail, who might be even more obsessed than he is as he pursues a serial killer.
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All our yesterdays: a novel of Lady Macbeth
by Joel H. Morris
A novel set 10 years before the events in Shakespeare's play follows the life of Lady Macbeth who was married to the violent, sadistic Mormaer of Moray at age 15, relying on her wits to survive with her young son.
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I am the clay
by Chaim Potok
While fleeing from their village during the horrors of the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife take in a wounded boy in an act of love that gives birth to an unlikely family.
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The chosen
by Chaim Potok
A baseball game between two Jewish schools and its resulting injury is the catalyst for a bitter rivalry between two boys from Hasidic and Zionist families that gives way to an important friendship in a story that spans World War II and the creation of the state of Israel.
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
In 1956 Kansas, as the Reverend John Ames approaches his death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three generations of their family, stretching back to the Civil War and revealing long-buried secrets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and Oprah's Book Club pick.
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The safekeep
by Yael van der Wouden
In postwar rural Netherlands, Isabel lives by routine and discipline until her brother leaves his graceless new girlfriend on her doorstep for the season. As Eva, the antithesis of Isabel, disrespects her house and ways, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession that gives way to infatuation and threatens to unravel her completely. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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Dear Medusa
by Olivia A. Cole
This intense and intimate novel-in-verse follows 16-year-old Alicia, isolated and withdrawn after being sexually abused by a teacher and dealing with the presumption that she asked for it. But when she receives mysterious letters hinting at another victim, she is forced her to confront her trauma and fight back.
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The house in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, Linus, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, finds himself falling for Arthur, the enigmatic caregiver whose possibly world-ending children Linus is supposed to be investigating.
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Somewhere beyond the sea
by TJ Klune
In this sequel, Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of a strange orphanage, and the other inhabitants of Marsyas Island must fight to save the dangerous and magical children of the orphanage or risk the entire island falling apart.
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Heir
by Sabaa Tahir
Told in alternating voices, three teens whose fates intertwine to stop the murder of innocents journey across two warring nations to ensure a better future for their people. By the author of the National Book Award-winning All My Rage.
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Please be my star
by Victoria Grace Elliott
In this reimagining of the Phantom of the Opera, Erika, obsessed with a cute boy in her theater class, hopes it will lead to friendship and romance when he agrees to star in her play, but soon she wonders what he sees in a girl like her—and if he might have his own agenda.
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No rules tonight
by Hyun Sook Kim
Set in dictatorial South Korea in 1984, a group of teens experience the thrilling taste of freedom on a winter retreat without parental supervision.
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Pearl
by Sherri L. Smith
When her great-grandmother gets sick, Japanese-American teen Amy leaves Hawaii to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941, and when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, she can't go home. Conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese forces, Amy struggles with questions of loyalty and fears for her family amidst rumors of internment camps in America.
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Milk without honey
by Hanna Harms
This poignant illustrated book is an urgent call to protect honey bees as pesticides and climate change are causing the collapse of bee colonies, with dramatic consequences for ecosystems everywhere. As we destroy insect populations, honey is just one of many foods that will no longer be available to us unless we learn to respect nature before it's too late.
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