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811.6 Clark
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811.6 Clark
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"A stunning debut that "brims with the talent and generosity of a living classic" (Ilya Kaminsky), from an award-winning DeafBlind poet. Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the braille slate to sensuous prose poems to pathbreaking translations from ASL and Protactile, a language...
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Nestled against the backdrop of Seattle's flora, fauna, and cityscape, Luther Hughes' debut poetry collection wrestles with the interior and exterior symbiosis of a gay Black man finding refuge from the threat of depression and death through love and desire.
Hughes draws readers into a Seattle that is heavily entrenched in violent anti-Blackness, and full of vulnerable and personal encounters from both the speaker's past and present. With reverent...
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We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction-through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history.
The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising...
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811.6 Choi
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811.6 Choi
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811.6 Choi
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811.6 Choi
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"Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. They explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating...
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--
6) Golden girl
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J FARUQI Reem
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J FARUQI Reem
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J FARUQI Reem
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J FARUQI Reem
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
7) Moonwalking
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J ELLIOTT Zetta
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J ELLIOTT Zetta
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J ELLIOTT Zetta
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J ELLIOTT Zetta
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In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
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J CULLEY Betty
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J CULLEY Betty
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J CULLEY Betty
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J CULLEY Betty
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J CULLEY Betty
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J CULLEY Betty
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Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
9) Vinyl moon
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BROWNE
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BROWNE
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BROWNE
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BROWNE
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"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
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JB OGLE Ogle
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JB OGLE Ogle
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JB OGLE Ogle
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JB OGLE Ogle
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"Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him...
12) Time is a mother
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811.6 Vuong
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811.6 Vuong
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811.6 Vuong
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811.6 Vuong
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811.6 Vuong
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811.6 Vuong
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"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...
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811.54 Cisneros
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811.54 Cisneros
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811.54 Cisneros
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811.54 Cisneros
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"A bold new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street"--
14) Vinegar Hill
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821.914 Toibin
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821.914 Toibin
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821.914 Toibin
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821.914 Toibin
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"A wide variety of poems, ranging in setting and topic, Vinegar Hill deals with gay experience and with the experience of loss, with memory and a fading past as well as the present moment"--
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"An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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J ENGLE Margarita
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J ENGLE Margarita
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J ENGLE Maragrita
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J ENGLE Maragrita
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J ENGLE Margarita
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J ENGLE Margarita
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Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...
17) Balladz
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811.54 Olds
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811.54 Olds
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"A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds. "At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at itscenter boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: "she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence...
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ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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ELLIOTT
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text express a child's awareness of being filled with deep emotions, from joy to sorrow and anger to compassion, but above all, love.
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811.54
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811.54
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811.54
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811.54
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"Organized as a dictionary, entries in this book for middle-grade readers present words related to creating a better, more inclusive world. Each word is explored via a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, and a short personal anecdote from one of the co-authors, a prompt for how to translate the word into action, and an illustration"--
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HOPKINS
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HOPKINS
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HOPKINS
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HOPKINS
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HOPKINS
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HOPKINS
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Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.