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Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
With a highly rated insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood in the name of anti-terrorism, Copeland Cane V, entrapped in a reality that chews up his past and obscures his future, finds himself caught in the flood of history after a protest rally against police violence.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a troubled America, Hark Morner is an unwitting guru whose technique of "Mental Archery"-a combination of mindfulness, mythology, fake history, yoga and, well, archery-is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status.
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Farah Patel realizes that the butterflies have disappeared from her neighborhood, she discovers that it's likely because there aren't enough flowers to attract them. She can't help but think, "This isn't right." Luckily enough, Grove Hills is looking for ideas on what to do with the empty lot next door. And Farah has the perfect one -- make it into a community garden to bring back a little green to their block! But when Farah finds out that she...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the world," Mama says. "How will the whole world hear?" Mari wonders. "They'll hear," says Mama, "because love is powerful." Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women's March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer's simple and uplifting story, delightfully illustrated by LeUyen Pham,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father, Christopher, modeled - private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where she teaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...
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Language
English
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Politicians have brought the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males. Working-class men dream of burying the elites. Professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Into this dyspeptic time, a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Imagine there's no God; there is no Heaven or Hell; there is only your son and his son and his son and the world...
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