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21) Invisible man
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Banned Books That Shaped America
Juneteenth for All Ages
Nashville Reads 2023: Celebrating Our Freedom to Read!
Juneteenth for All Ages
Nashville Reads 2023: Celebrating Our Freedom to Read!
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern college to New York's Harlem, an American Black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a Black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly...
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When the teacher challenges his class to try something new, Norbert refuses, even when the teacher sweetens the deal by offering extra recess and a pass on any homework assignment. However, Norbert still refuses, and hates the feeling of being pressured by his peers. In the end, Norbert and his friends learn something about peer pressure.
23) Bailey's Café
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In the aftermath of World War II, a New York City cafe and the nearby boarding house draw a variety of characters and provide a place for a group of women to come together, each with their own stories to tell.
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In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening...
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A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? Coelho dramatizes the struggle with every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles: to dare to follow our dreams,...
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Everyone knows that Hummingbird is the most popular bird at school. That is why Bluebird wants to be just like Hummingbird--so she starves herself to become thin so she can flutter. However, Bluebird makes herself sick doing so, so that mother Bluebird has to help her realize that she is just fine the way she is, no matter her body type.
33) Hurting time
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Abel Ruiz's life is seemingly coming together. He has a career path and a loving girlfriend. Then Claudia dumps him, and he is left to try to keep his self esteem alive, which is proving hard to do.
35) A scanner darkly
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Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam...
37) Grin and bear it
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Will stage fright prevent a very funny bear from becoming a stand-up comedian?
39) Soda pop head
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A boy named Lester struggles to control his anger and often explodes earning him the nickname, Soda Pop Head. Things get better when his father points out cues that his anger is building, and gives him practical ways to release the pressure before he explodes.