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• On Nostalgia

  Berry, David (Cultural critic)

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  "On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Micrographia

  Delisle, Jennifer Bowering, 1979-

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  "As Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medically-assisted death. The lyric essays in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eerie Edmonton

  Parrish, Rhonda, 1967-

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  More than forty stories about hauntings and paranormal activity in Edmonton, told from a combination of personal accounts, documented history, and the authors' own investigations. Also available as an eBook.

• Iyeri's Blood

  Gajda, Tyler

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  "We made a promise, remember? To save everyone. Back then, we were too young. When we were older, we were too weak. Now? Now there's nothing in my way and nothing left to lose." A young doctor exploring the world, a prodigy searching for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Specimen

  Fixsen, Jaima

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  "Based on true crimes, The Specimen is a mesmerizing story about one woman's search for truth and vengeance in the darkest of places -- where the deadliest secrets lie hidden in plain sight, on a freshly dusted shelf." Also available as an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nature Is An Artist

  Lavallee, Jennifer

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  "A group of children follow Nature and explore art found in the natural world while creating their own works of art."

• Unravelling

  Boxwell, Josephine

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  "Corruption connects the tales of two protagonists whose worlds are irreparably damaged. Ruthless octogenarian Vivian Lennox fights her deteriorating mind as she defends the catastrophic decisions she made decades earlier. Armed only with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Taking the Lead

  Spafford-Fitz, Karen, 1963-

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  "Following an angry outburst after their first track meet, captain of the track and field team Jonas is kicked off the team entirely. His principal later decides she will let him compete in the final track meet, but only if he agrees to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wildlife Crossing

  Giving Animals the Right-of-way

  Galat, Joan Marie, 1963-

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  "Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle-grade readers, this book explores the science of road ecology and what happens when highways, wildlife and habitats intersect. Illustrated with photographs throughout"

• What Inspires

  Hughes, Alison, 1966-

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  "In this buoyant picture book, three friends go to the park and their creativity spreads to everyone around them, into dance, chalk drawings, dramatic play and, when the day is over, inspirational dreams"

• Let Us Not Think of Them as Barbarians

  Midgley, Peter, 1965-

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  "Peter Midgley's let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Butcher of the Forest

  Mohamed, Premee

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  "At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn -- the only one to ever enter the forest and survive -- is forced to go back inside to retrieve the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winning Chance

  Stories

  Koller, Katherine, 1957-

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  "Stories that examine second chances and how we find the courage to take them." Also available as an eBook.

• Sistering

  a Novel

  Quist, Jennifer

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  "After her mother-in-law dies in a fall, Suzanne makes a monumentally bad decision and then must rely on her four sisters to keep her from ruin." Also available as an eBook.

• A Death of Cold

  Sellers, Jim, 1956-

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  "Sixteen year old Jacky wants to get out. He wants to get away from the endless gossip and social media chatter of his high school. He knows exactly what he wants to do. He loves science and tech, and he has a chance to get away and study…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inching Back to Sane

  a Memoir of Mental Illness

  Gregersen, Leif

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  "Leif Gregersen's memoir of his experiences with bipolar disorder."