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MRLS Newsletter — March 2025 |
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How to Catch a Leprechaun
by Adam Wallace - Picture Book
Kids are invited to start a St. Patrick's Day tradition with this fun-filled, lively book in verse that offers advice on how to craft the perfect trap to catch a leprechaun.
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The Great Leprechaun Chase
by James Dean - Picture Book
When Pete the Cat opens a leprechaun catching business on St. Patrick's Day, his efforts are complicated by Clover, a leprechaun who's full of tricks.
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Legends & Lore: Ireland's Folk Tales
by Michael Scott - Juvenile Fiction
The author combines mythology and magic in a high-action collection inspired by nine Irish legends, from a competition to become King of the Leprechauns to a trick designed to fool the Queen of the Fairies.
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The Missing Thread : A Women's History of the Ancient World
by Daisy Dunn
Reconceiving our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it, from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless others, an award-winning classicist documents how women of antiquity are undeniably woven through the fabric of history, and in this monumental work, finally take center stage. Illustrations.
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Women's Suffrage
by Duchess Harris - Juvenile Nonfiction
Discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the United States, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well.
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
by Pamela D. Toler - Adult Nonfiction
Women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities.
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
by Danielle Dreilinger - Adult Nonfiction
Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a maligned subject to its rightful importance.
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Harlem rhapsody
by Victoria Christopher Murray
In 1919 Harlem, literary editor Jessie Redmon Fauset is at the forefront of a Black cultural renaissance, discovering talents like Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen, but her ambition and a secret affair with W.E.B. Du Bois threaten her legacy.
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Order of Swans
by Jude Deveraux
Kaley Adams travels to friend Jobi's island home, but she awakens on the plane in the birthplace of fairytales, and when the king asks Kaley to find the prince, she must rely on fairytale knowledge and her handsome guide to survive this new world. (fantasy).
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The note : a novel
by Alafair Burke
May Hanover, always the rule-following“Little Sheriff,” reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
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Beautiful ugly
by Alice Feeney
A year after his wife Abby mysteriously disappeared, author Grady Green, still consumed by grief, retreats to a remote Scottish island only to encounter a woman who looks exactly like the wife he lost. 150,000 first printing.
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Lawrenceville, Virginia 23868
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