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2023 Book Recommendations

Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay
Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay
By Cyndie Spiegel
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Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League Dad
Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League Dad
By Mark Braff, forward by Cal Ripken, Jr
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Solito: A Memoir
Solito: A Memoir
By Javier Zamora
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy
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Your Difference is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself - for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
By Kris Ferraro, forward by Tama Kieves
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Hygge: Discovering the Danish Art of Happiness
By Olivia Telford
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Study Like a Champ: A Psychology-Based Guide to "Grade A" Study Habits
By Regan A.R. Gurung & John Dunlosky
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10-Minute Mindfulness: 71 Simple Habits for Living in the Present Moment
10-Minute Mindfulness: 71 Simple Habits for Living in the Present Moment
By S.J.Scott & Barrie Davenport
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Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
By Sarah Stein Greenberg
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Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph, by Sheila Johnson, America's First Black Female Billionaire
Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph
By Sheila Johnson
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The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy), by Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired)
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
By Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired)
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Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel, by Gena Cox
Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel
By Gena Cox
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Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created, edited by Laura Miller
Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created
Edited by Laura Miller
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth, by Catherine McIlwaine
Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth
By Catherine McIlwaine
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The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests, by Shira Wolosky
The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests
By Shira Wolosky
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Step into Narnia: A Journey Through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, by E. J. Kirk
Step into Narnia: A Journey Through The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
By E. J. Kirk
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Mommy's Hair is Everywhere! by Radwa Ali and Christy Venarchick
Mommy's Hair is Everywhere!
By Radwa Ali and Christy Venarchick
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Something, Someday, by Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson
Something, Someday
By Amanda Gorman and Christian Robinson
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They Call Me Brave: A Children's Book About Cancer, by Shane Autumn Nebbia
They Call Me Brave: A Children's Book About Cancer
By Shane Autumn Nebbia
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Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote, by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts
Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote
By Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts Catalog Goodreads
Let Us Descend: A Novel, by Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend: A Novel
By Jesmyn Ward
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel, by Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead: A Novel
By Barbara Kingsolver
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Horse: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks
Horse: A Novel
By Geraldine Brooks
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Take My Hand: A Novel, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Take My Hand: A Novel
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey, and Butch Guice
Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets
By Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey, and Butch Guice
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, by Joss Whedon, Brian Vaughan, and Georges Jeanty
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8
By Joss Whedon, Brian Vaughan, and Georges Jeanty
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A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One, by George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One
By George R. R. Martin
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The Walking Dead: Compendium One, by Robert Kirkland, Charles Adlard, Tony Moore, and Cliff Rathburn
The Walking Dead: Compendium One
By Robert Kirkland, Charles Adlard, Tony Moore, and Cliff Rathburn
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I'm the Girl, by Courtney Summers
I'm the Girl
By Courtney Summers
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Gilded, by Marissa Meyer
Gilded
By Marissa Meyer
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The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera
The Last Cuentista
By Donna Barba Higuera
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Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
Children of Blood and Bone
By Tomi Adeyemi
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Reminders of Him: A Novel, by Colleen Hoover
Reminders of Him: A Novel
By Colleen Hoover
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Out Now: Queer We Go Again! Edited by Saundra Mitchell
Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
Edited by Saundra Mitchell
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Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney
Girl Crushed
By Katie Heaney
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
By Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The Outsider: A Novel, by Stephen King
The Outsider: A Novel
By Stephen King
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The Institute: A Novel, by Stephen King
The Institute: A Novel
By Stephen King
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Through the Woods: Stories, by Emily Carroll
Through the Woods: Stories
By Emily Carroll
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My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
By Emil Ferris
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Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane
Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane
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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments
By Margaret Atwood
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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture, by A.D. Jameson
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture
By A.D. Jameson
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 16 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends, Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 16 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends
Edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
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Ms. Marvel, by G. Willow Wilson et. al.
Ms. Marvel
By G. Willow Wilson et. al.
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel, by Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
By Fredrik Backman
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, by Stephanie Land, forward by Barbara Ehrenreich
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
By Stephanie Land, forward by Barbara Ehrenreich
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It Ends with Us: A Novel, by Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us: A Novel
By Colleen Hoover
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Above Ground: Poems, by Clint Smith
Above Ground: Poems
By Clint Smith
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Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, by J. Drew Lanham
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts
By J. Drew Lanham
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What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
By Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Poems, by Franny Choi
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Poems
By Franny Choi
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Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, by Mark Bittman
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By Mark Bittman
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Everyday Grand: Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments, by Jocelyn Delk Adams and Olga Massov
Everyday Grand: Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life's Big and Small Moments
By Jocelyn Delk Adams and Olga Massov
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family, by Madhushree Ghosh
Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
By Madhushree Ghosh
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After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made, by Ben Rhodes
After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made
By Ben Rhodes
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How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, by Barbara F. Walter
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
By Barbara F. Walter
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, by Margaret A. Burnham
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By Margaret A. Burnham
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On Juneteenth, by Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth
By Annette Gordon-Reed
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Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm, by Susan Crawford
Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
By Susan Crawford, forward by Annette Gordon-Reed
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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
By Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
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The Climate Book, edited by Greta Thunberg
The Climate Book
Edited by Greta Thunberg
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World, by Oliver Milman
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World
By Oliver Milman
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
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Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By Ruha Benjamin
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Gendered Places: The Landscape of Local Gender Norms across the United States, by William J. Scarborough
Gendered Places: The Landscape of Local Gender Norms across the United States
By William J. Scarborough
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The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever, by Jack Curry
The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
By Jack Curry
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Intelligent Influence in Baseball: Amazing Stories of Influence, Success and Failure, by Dr. Dale Caldwell and Robert V. Hurte Jr
Intelligent Influence in Baseball: Amazing Stories of Influence, Success and Failure
By Dr. Dale Caldwell and Robert V. Hurte Jr
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Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers, by Nicholas Smith
Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers
By Nicholas Smith
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Lebron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete, by Brian Windhorst
Lebron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
By Brian Windhorst
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Plant-Based Sports Nutrition: Expert Fueling Strategies for Training, Recovery, and Performance by D. Enette Larson-Meyer and Matt Ruscigno
Plant-Based Sports Nutrition: Expert Fueling Strategies for Training, Recovery, and Performance
By D. Enette Larson-Meyer and Matt Ruscigno
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Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health, 2nd ed., by Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton
Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health, 2nd ed
By Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It, by Dr. Alyson J. McGregor
Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It
By Dr. Alyson J. McGregor
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Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It, by Shantanu Nundy, MD
Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It
By Shantanu Nundy
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The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 75 Books to Cure What Ails You, by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 75 Books to Cure What Ails You
By Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
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The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page, by Maria Walther
The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page
By Maria Walther
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How to Raise a Reader, by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
How to Raise a Reader
By Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
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High Attention Reading: Preparing Students for Independent Reading of Informational Text, by Elizabeth Hale
High Attention Reading: Preparing Students for Independent Reading of Informational Text
By Elizabeth Hale
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The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears
The Woman in Me
By Britney Spears
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics, by Kevin Hazzard
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
By Kevin Hazzard
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The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate, 2nd ed., by Jeannie Gainsburg
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate, 2nd ed.
By Jeannie Gainsburg
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The Advocate Magazine
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Spirituality + Health Magazine
Spirituality + Health Magazine
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Equus Magazine
Equus Magazine
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