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The national bestseller that inspires us to become who we always wanted to be
“Kwan’s debut is a
“The book is a Chicago fun, over-the-top EVERYTHING romp through the I NEVER TOLD YOU coming-of-age story; A Novel NATIVE SPEAKER a love story of a pair unbelievable world By Celeste Ng By Chang Rae-Lee of the Asian jet set. . . . “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a of opposites; and a this novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s true American—a native speaker. Park’s harsh Korean political saga by a A witty tongue-in- Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to cheek frolic about Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel woman who ultimately the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it transcended her what it means to be body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes AWARDS that has been keeping the family together is destroyed. that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his from really old worries to become one WINNER - NAACP Image Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his and a sensitive family portrait. coming to terms with his young son’s death. of the most popular first moneyAward for and Outstanding what it’s Literary Work READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE WINNER - Pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel ladies in history.” like to be crazy rich.” READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE —Publishers Weekly —Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, in the Pick of the Week New York Times Book Review
n a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, In her memoir, Michelle Obama invites readers into Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most her world, chronicling the experiences that have THEY CALLED US ENEMY I WHEN THE EMPEROR iconic and compelling women of our era. As First shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side By George Takei, Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott; WAS DIVINE Lady of the U.S.A.—the first African American to of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing Illustrated by Harmony Becker By Julie Otsuka serve in that role—she helped create the most the demands of motherhood and work, to her time George Takei is known around the world for his role as Otsuka’s commanding novel paints a portrait of the welcoming and inclusive White House in history, spent at the world’s most famous address. With Sulu on Star Trek and his commitment to equal rights. But Japanese internment camps unlike any we’ve ever read. while also establishing herself as a powerful unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her in 1942, he was a four-year-old boy forced from his home With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and abroad, triumphs and her disappointments, telling her when FDR ordered every person of Japanese descent to single family to evoke the deracination of a generation and standing with her husband as he led America full story as she has lived it—in her own words be rounded up and shipped to “relocation centers,” where of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each from a through some of its most harrowing moments. and on her own terms. Becoming is the deeply they would be held for years under armed guard. They different point of view—the mother receiving the order Called Us Enemy is Takei’s graphic memoir of the strains to evacuate; the son in the desert encampment; and the Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, personal reckoning of a woman who has defied and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, and the family’s return to their home;—she has created a novel of crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to- expectations—and whose story inspires us to do way those experiences planted the seeds for his future. unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. the same. TEACHER’S GUIDE COMING TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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The romantic comedy of manners that became the basis for the hit movie
“Jane Austen, or maybe “Kwan’s debut is a CANE Edith Wharton, goes to fun, over-the-top By Jean Toomer; Introduction by THE MARCH TRILOGY Singapore, turning in romp through the George B. Hutchinson; By John Lewis and Foreword by Andrew Aydin; this lively, entertaining unbelievable world Zinzi Clemmons Illustrated by Nate Powell novel of manners. . . . of the Asian jet set. . . . First published in 1923 and told through a series of Congressman John Lewis is an American icon and key vignettes, Cane uses poetry, prose, and play-like dialogue figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to Kwan’s characters are A witty tongue-in- to create a window into the varied lives of African- justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama urban sophisticates par cheek frolic about Americans living in the rural South and urban North sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a during a time when Jim Crow laws pervaded and racism segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, excellence . . . A diverse what it means to be reigned. While critically acclaimed at the time, the book to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African- wasn’t widely popular, probably because it portrayed American president. Now Lewis presents March, a graphic set of characters and a from really old African Americans in an accurate and entirely human way. novel trilogy and a vivid first-hand account of his lifelong light, unstrained touch money and what it’s struggle for civil and human rights. WINNER - move Kwan’s story like to be crazy rich.” 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE along. . . . An elegant —Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week comedy and an auspicious debut.”
—Kirkus (starred review)
READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE A MIGHTY LONG WAY My Journey to Justice hen Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer Uproarious and addictive, Crazy Rich Asians is at Little Rock Central in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas an insider’s look at the Asian Jet Set; a perfect High School W A DIFFERENT Young, she envisions a humble family home, depiction of the clash between old money and new By Carlotta Walls LaNier and DRUMMER Lisa Frazier Page; long drives to explore the island, and quality time money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland By William Melvin Kelley Foreword by Bill Clinton with the man she might one day marry. What she Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means Nearly three decades after its first publication, A Different When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home looks like to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, a palace, that she’ll ride in more private planes and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter she and 8 other black students only wanted to make it “A juicy, close anthropological read of Singapore than cars, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible struggle for African-American civil rights. This is the story to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they high society and its social and mating rituals . . . He bachelors on her arm, Rachel has a target on her of Tucker Caliban, a black Southerner who one day salts came to be known, would lead the nation on an even gets the idiosyncratic details right . . . and he does back. Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock and, longer and much more turbulent path, one that would a particularly good job of illustrating the divide . with his wife and child, sets off a mass exodus of his challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in . . between mainland wealth and establishment mythical state’s entire black population. forever change the landscape of America. the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, money—an uneasy tension that is very real.” TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE Nick’s formidable mother, who has strong feelings —Janice Y. K. Lee about who her son should—and should not—marry.
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The Hilarious Coming-Of-Age Memoir from The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah
BECOMING NICOLE The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her LOT “[A] compelling new Born a Crime is not extraordinary family Stories memoir . . . By turns just an unnerving By Amy Ellis Nutt By Bryan Washington When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin In the city of Houston, the son of a black mother and alarming, sad and account of growing up boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn’t a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his funny, [Trevor Noah’s] in South Africa under long before they noticed Jonas liked many of the things family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, little boys were “supposed” to like, but Wyatt liked princess resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he book provides a apartheid, but a love dolls and dress-up. Confusion over Wyatt’s insistence likes boys. Bryan Washington’s viscerally drawn world that he was female began to tear the family apart. The vibrates with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people harrowing look, letter to the author’s Maineses came to question their long-held views on searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a through the prism of remarkable mother.” gender and identity, to accept and embrace Wyatt’s community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love transition to Nicole, and to undergo an emotionally in all its unsparing and unsteady forms. Mr. Noah’s family, at life —Michiko Kakutani, wrenching transformation of their own. The New York Times in South Africa under TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE apartheid. . . .
TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TOMORROW WILL BE revor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young MY BROTHER’S DIFFERENT Africa to The Daily Show began with a criminal boy who grows into a restless young man. It is HUSBAND Love, Loss, and the Fight for T Volumes 1 & 2 Trans Equality act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss also the story of his relationship with his fearless, By Gengoroh Tagame; By Sarah McBride; father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when rebellious, and religious mother. Whether eating Translated by Anne Ishii Foreword by Joe Biden such a union was punishable with prison. Trevor caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being Yaichi is a suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly Before she became the first transgender person to was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his thrown from a moving car during an attempted married to Natsuki, father to their daughter, Kana. Their speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the life, bound by the extreme and absurd measures kidnapping, or just trying to survive the pitfalls in lives change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the his mother took to hide him. Finally liberated by the high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, the widower decision to come out—not just to her family but to the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor with wit and honesty. His stories form a moving and of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. What follows is an students of American University, where she was student and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, funny portrait of a boy making his way through unprecedented and heartbreaking look at a largely still- body president. Four years later, McBride was one of closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the nation’s most prominent transgender activists. living openly and freely and embracing the a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed the West, and how the next generation can change the Informative, heartbreaking, and profoundly empowering, opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. McBride’s story of love and loss is a powerful entry point unconventional, unconditional love. WINNER - 2018 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights. International Material — Asia READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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The bestselling memoir about identity, love, and understanding
THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS A Story of War and What “The power of Conley’s Comes After By Clemantine Wamariya story resides not only in AMERICANAH and Elizabeth Weil By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the vividly depicted Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they Clemantine Wamariya was six when she witnessed the grotesqueries of the depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self- beginnings the Rwandan Genocide. In 1994, she and assured Ifemelu heads for America, where she is forced to her sister fled the massacre and spent the next six years therapy system, but in grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. migrating through seven African countries. They did not his lyrical writing about Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but after know whether their parents were dead or alive. At 12, they 9/11 he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented were granted refugee status in the U.S. Clemantine was sexuality and love, and life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly taken in by a Chicago family who raised her as their own. democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each She seemed to live the American dream, but the years of his reflections on the other and for their homeland. being treated as less than human could not be erased. Southern family and WINNER - National Book Critics Circle Award TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE culture that shaped READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE him.”
—Los Angeles Times
he son of a Baptist pastor and deeply when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Tembedded in church life in small town Garrard found the strength to break out in search Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was of his true self and forgiveness. HOMEGOING THINGS FALL APART terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When By Yaa Gyasi By Chinua Achebe By confronting his buried past and the burden of he was a college student, he was outed to his Ghana, eighteenth century: two half-sisters are born into Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex parents, and was forced to make a life-changing different villages, each unaware of the other. One will stories, both of which center on Okonkwo, a “strong man” relationships among family, faith, and community. decision: either agree to attend a church- marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo’s Boy Erased is a testament to love that survives Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid fall from grace within his tribal world. The second story, supported conversion therapy program that despite all odds. on her village and sold into slavery. Gyasi’s extraordinary which is as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo’s world losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to “Exceptionally well-written... This timely addition who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how through the arrival of European missionaries. Things Fall every day. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step to the debate on conversion therapy will build the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of Apart is the most illuminating and permanent monument Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed sympathy for both children and parents who avail our nation. we have to the modern African experience. to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, and stronger in themselves of it while still showing how damaging WINNER – Pen/Hemingway Award WINNER – Man Booker International Prize his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even it can be.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review WINNER – NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to Princeton
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s story is as compulsively readable as a novel, an AN AMERICAN FAMILY A Memoir of Hope and CALL ME AMERICAN all-American tall tale Sacrifice A Memoir that just happens to be By Khizr Khan By Abdi Nor Iftin In fewer than three hundred words, Khizr Khan electrified Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As true. From homeless viewers around the world when he took the stage at the a child, he learned English by listening to American pop shelter to Princeton, 2016 Democratic National Convention. But who was that and watching action films. When U.S. marines landed in man, standing beside his wife, extolling the promises Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered their Oxford, and Stanford, and virtues of the U.S. Constitution? An American Family arrival. But when a radical Islamist group rose to power in shows us who Khizr Khan and millions of other American 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. through the grace not immigrants are, and why—especially in these tumultuous Abdi was forced to flee, eventually ending up in Maine. only of his own hard times—we must not be afraid to step forward for what we Iftin’s memoir is a vivid reminder of why America still believe in when it matters most. beckons to those looking to make a better life. work but his mother’s TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE discipline and care, he documents the America we should still aspire to be.”
— Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President of the New America Foundation READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
an-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated two dream. As a boy, he arrived in the U.S. legally worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where D GREETINGS FROM with his family from Santo Domingo to seek medical he lived with his brother and his mother, and the BURY PARK THE KITE RUNNER care for his mother. Soon the family’s visas lapsed, ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, By Sarfraz Manzoor By Khaled Hosseini and Dan-el’s father returned home. But Dan-el’s where he rose to the top of his class. From Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely mother decided to stay and make a better life for Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton, where emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his family. friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his her sons in New York City. While Dan-el was only he made the momentous decision to come out He spent his teen years in a constant battle, trying to father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, in grade school, he lived in a homeless shelter as an undocumented student in a Wall Street reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in. The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a where Dan-el’s only refuge was the meager library. Journal profile before he gave the address at his But when his best friend introduced him to the music tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. At another shelter he met Jeff, a young volunteer commencement. Undocumented is essential of Bruce Springsteen, his life changed completely. Both A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power a tribute to The Boss and a story of personal discovery, of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck reading for the debate on immigration, but it is Greetings from Bury Park is a warm, irreverent, and redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers by Dan-el’s passion for books and learning. With also an unforgettable tale of a passionate young exceptionally perceptive memoir about how music over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. Jeff’s help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to scholar coming of age in two very different worlds. transcends religion and race. Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country.
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Two young lovers must escape their war-torn country for distant new lands
THE FAR AWAY “Hamid exploits fiction’s BROTHERS capacity to elicit empa- Two Young Migrants and the Making of an thy and identification THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN American Life AMERICANS By Lauren Markham to imagine a better By Cristina Henríquez world. It is also a possi- When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible Growing up in rural El Salvador, the United States was injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul ble world. Exit West Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States Flores—until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the does not lead to utopia, so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they region’s brutal gangs forces them to flee. In this urgent arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist but to a near future and of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who Markham follows the twins as they make their way across AWARDS sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of the dim shapes of Winner – 2018 Their love story sets in motion events that will have immigration authorities, and from there to their older strangers that we can Los Angeles Times Book profound repercussions for everyone involved. brother in Oakland, CA. Prize for Fiction READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILBLE see through a distant doorway. All we have to do is step through it and meet them.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times Book Review
n a country on the brink of civil war, two young struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to THE LINE BECOMES people meet— fiercely independent Nadia and the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate I A RIVER gentle Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable Dispatches From The Border MY BELOVED WORLD and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both By Francisco Cantú By Sonia Sotomayor by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, completely of our time and for all time. Francisco Cantú’s mother, a park ranger and daughter The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the turning familiar streets into a patchwork of “In spare, crystalline prose, Hamid conveys the of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the Southwest United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear experience of living in a city under siege with sharp, scrublands. As an adult, Cantú joins the Border Patrol, become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor whispers about doors that can whisk people far stabbing immediacy. He shows just how swiftly but his growing awareness of his complicity in a and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she dehumanizing enterprise causes him to quit. But when recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the away. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed ordinary life — with all its banal rituals and routines decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament — can morph into the defensive crouch of life in a mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the to her own extraordinary determination and the power of their homeland and their old lives behind, they find war zone. … [and] how insidiously violence alters border has migrated with him, and now he must know the believing in oneself. a door and step through. . . . the calculus of daily life.” full extent of the violence it wreaks. WINNER - Exit West follows these remarkable characters as —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE 2013 School Library Journal Best Adult Books of The Year they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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The award-winning debut novel that launched a major literary voice
LOOK ME IN THE EYE NOTES ON A NERVOUS “Powerful. . . . There There My Life with Asperger’s PLANET has so much jangling By John Elder Robison By Matt Haig Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds energy and brings so connect with other people, but by the time he was a ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered much news from a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him AWARDS distinct corner of five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)— a long time to work out the ways the external world could Winner - 2018 Nbcc had earned him the label “social deviant.” Look Me in the impact his mental health. Notes on a Nervous Planet American life that it’s a John Leonard Prize Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with collects his observations, taking a look at how the various Asperger’s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn’t exist. social, commercial and technological “advancements” can revelation.” Winner - 2019 - Pen/ TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE actually hinder our happiness. —The New York Times Hemingway Award for Best First Novel “An astonishing literary debut.”
—Margaret Atwood
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here There is the story of twelve Urban Indians There There is a wondrous and shattering THE SOLOIST living in Oakland, CA, who converge on one portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. A Lost Dream, an Unlikely T Friendship, and the THINKING IN PICTURES fateful day. As we learn the reasons that each Its “masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating” (The Redemptive Power of Music My Life with Autism person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow, Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, By Steve Lopez By Temple Grandin momentum builds toward a shocking conclusion funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. Journalist Steve Lopez discovered Nathaniel Ayers, a Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her unique trying to make it back to the family she left behind grapples with a complex and painful history, with out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. empathy for animals has her create systems which are in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took humane and cruelty-free, setting the highest standards together after his uncle’s death. Opal Viola Victoria and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. it upon himself to change the prodigy’s life—only to find for the treatment and handling of animals. She also Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, This is a book destined to be a classic. that their relationship would have a profound change on happens to be autistic. Here, in her own words, is the story his own. what it is like to live with autism. Temple provides insight who will to perform in public for the very first time. into the autistic mind, as well as those of geniuses and There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle savants. of sacred tradition. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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Go inside the mind of a thirteen year old boy with autism
AMERICAN INDIAN “One of the most STORIES CANYON DREAMS By Zitkála-Šá; A Basketball Season on remarkable books I’ve Introduction by the Navajo Nation ever read. It’s truly Layli Long Soldier By Michael Powell Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grew up on the Yankton Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and moving, eye-opening, Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until isolated patch of the Navajo reservation, sits Chinle incredibly vivid.” Quaker missionaries arrived, offering the children a free High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from education. Curious about the world, Zitkála-Šá traveled grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show to Indiana to attend. But the missionary school was winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little strict, and she encountered racism and ridicule. Slowly, else to do. Journalist Michael Powell brings us a moving “This is an intimate Zitkála-Šá adapted to her environment, but the price of story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that book, one that brings success was estrangement from her cultural roots, and it shows the transcendent magic and painful realities that was a price she was not sure she wanted to pay. confront Native Americans living on reservations. readers right into an autistic mind.”
—Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice)
ou’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up CEREMONY Y WHERE THE DEAD SIT self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make By Leslie Marmon Silko; Introduction by TALKING boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the Larry McMurtry By Brandon Hobson demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year- perceives, and responds in ways few of us can jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt imagine. Parents and family members who never the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further family. Scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, thought they could get inside the head of their heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself. At least until he meets autistic loved one at last have a way to break through not only autism but life itself. His insights—into Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully lives with the family. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, their shared Native American background and tumultuous the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct Ceremony is a work of enduring power. paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah’s words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable strange, and so powerful that you will never look at feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the scars of their pasts to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most the world the same way again. threaten to undo them both. delicate questions that people want to know. FINALIST – 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
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The provocative essay that has become a world-wide bestseller
HALF THE SKY Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women EDUCATED Worldwide A Memoir By Nicholas D. Kristof and “Adichie makes her By Tara Westover Sheryl WuDunn
arguments quietly but Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara With Pulitzer Prize winners Kristof and WuDunn as our skillfully. A moving Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among essay that should find society that there was no one to ensure the children them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and received an education, and no one to intervene when one an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries its way into the hands of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined of all students and brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our kind of life. Her quest for knowledge took her over oceans world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. teachers to provoke new and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE conversation and University. awareness.”
—Kirkus
n this personal, eloquently-argued essay— “Sweden has distributed author Chimamanda adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the Ngozi Adichie’s feminist manifesto, We Should I THE IDIOT PRIESTDADDY same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award- All Be Feminists, to every 16-year-old student in A Novel A Memoir winning author of Americanah, offers readers a the country. ‘This is the book that I wish all of my By Elif Batuman By Patricia Lockwood unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first male classmates would have read when I was 16,’ The year is 1995. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Clara Berglund, president of the Swedish Women’s arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She befriends her have ever met—a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves Drawing extensively on her own experiences and Lobby, told The Guardian. ‘It feels so important to charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar her deep understanding of the often masked contribute to this project. It is a gift to all second- begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable grade high-school students, but it is also a gift to student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads author’s exploration of what it means to be a ourselves and future generations.’” —NPR writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious her and her husband to move back into her parents’ woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry meanings. Thus begins Selin’s journey that will lead to the rectory, their two worlds collide. for why we should all be feminists. ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love. WINNER - 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor FINALIST – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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The provocative essay that has become a world-wide bestseller
HALF THE SKY Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women EDUCATED Worldwide A Memoir By Nicholas D. Kristof and “Adichie makes her By Tara Westover Sheryl WuDunn arguments quietly but Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara With Pulitzer Prize winners Kristof and WuDunn as our skillfully. A moving Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among essay that should find society that there was no one to ensure the children them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and received an education, and no one to intervene when one an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries its way into the hands of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined of all students and brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our kind of life. Her quest for knowledge took her over oceans world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. teachers to provoke new and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE conversation and University. awareness.”
—Kirkus
n this personal, eloquently-argued essay— “Sweden has distributed author Chimamanda adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the Ngozi Adichie’s feminist manifesto, We Should I THE IDIOT PRIESTDADDY same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award- All Be Feminists, to every 16-year-old student in A Novel A Memoir winning author of Americanah, offers readers a the country. ‘This is the book that I wish all of my By Elif Batuman By Patricia Lockwood unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first male classmates would have read when I was 16,’ The year is 1995. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Clara Berglund, president of the Swedish Women’s arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She befriends her have ever met—a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves Drawing extensively on her own experiences and Lobby, told The Guardian. ‘It feels so important to charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar her deep understanding of the often masked contribute to this project. It is a gift to all second- begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable grade high-school students, but it is also a gift to student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads author’s exploration of what it means to be a ourselves and future generations.’” —NPR writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious her and her husband to move back into her parents’ woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry meanings. Thus begins Selin’s journey that will lead to the rectory, their two worlds collide. for why we should all be feminists. ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love. WINNER - 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor FINALIST – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Go inside the mind of a thirteen year old boy with autism
AMERICAN INDIAN “One of the most STORIES CANYON DREAMS By Zitkála-Šá; A Basketball Season on remarkable books I’ve Introduction by the Navajo Nation ever read. It’s truly Layli Long Soldier By Michael Powell Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grew up on the Yankton Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and moving, eye-opening, Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until isolated patch of the Navajo reservation, sits Chinle incredibly vivid.” Quaker missionaries arrived, offering the children a free High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from education. Curious about the world, Zitkála-Šá traveled grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show to Indiana to attend. But the missionary school was winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little strict, and she encountered racism and ridicule. Slowly, else to do. Journalist Michael Powell brings us a moving “This is an intimate Zitkála-Šá adapted to her environment, but the price of story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that book, one that brings success was estrangement from her cultural roots, and it shows the transcendent magic and painful realities that was a price she was not sure she wanted to pay. confront Native Americans living on reservations. readers right into an autistic mind.”
—Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice)
ou’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up CEREMONY Y WHERE THE DEAD SIT self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make By Leslie Marmon Silko; Introduction by TALKING boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the Larry McMurtry By Brandon Hobson demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year- perceives, and responds in ways few of us can jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt imagine. Parents and family members who never the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further family. Scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, thought they could get inside the head of their heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself. At least until he meets autistic loved one at last have a way to break through not only autism but life itself. His insights—into Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully lives with the family. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, their shared Native American background and tumultuous the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct Ceremony is a work of enduring power. paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah’s words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable strange, and so powerful that you will never look at feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the scars of their pasts to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most the world the same way again. threaten to undo them both. delicate questions that people want to know. FINALIST – 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
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The award-winning debut novel that launched a major literary voice
LOOK ME IN THE EYE NOTES ON A NERVOUS “Powerful. . . . There There My Life with Asperger’s PLANET has so much jangling By John Elder Robison By Matt Haig Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds energy and brings so connect with other people, but by the time he was a ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered much news from a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him AWARDS distinct corner of five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)— a long time to work out the ways the external world could Winner - 2018 Nbcc had earned him the label “social deviant.” Look Me in the impact his mental health. Notes on a Nervous Planet American life that it’s a John Leonard Prize Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with collects his observations, taking a look at how the various Asperger’s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn’t exist. social, commercial and technological “advancements” can revelation.” Winner - 2019 - Pen/ TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE actually hinder our happiness. —The New York Times Hemingway Award for Best First Novel “An astonishing literary debut.”
—Margaret Atwood
READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE here There is the story of twelve Urban Indians There There is a wondrous and shattering THE SOLOIST living in Oakland, CA, who converge on one portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. A Lost Dream, an Unlikely T Friendship, and the THINKING IN PICTURES fateful day. As we learn the reasons that each Its “masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating” (The Redemptive Power of Music My Life with Autism person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow, Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, By Steve Lopez By Temple Grandin momentum builds toward a shocking conclusion funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. Journalist Steve Lopez discovered Nathaniel Ayers, a Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart a designer of livestock holding equipment. Her unique trying to make it back to the family she left behind grapples with a complex and painful history, with out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. empathy for animals has her create systems which are in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took humane and cruelty-free, setting the highest standards together after his uncle’s death. Opal Viola Victoria and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. it upon himself to change the prodigy’s life—only to find for the treatment and handling of animals. She also Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, This is a book destined to be a classic. that their relationship would have a profound change on happens to be autistic. Here, in her own words, is the story his own. what it is like to live with autism. Temple provides insight who will to perform in public for the very first time. into the autistic mind, as well as those of geniuses and There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle savants. of sacred tradition. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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Two young lovers must escape their war-torn country for distant new lands
THE FAR AWAY “Hamid exploits fiction’s BROTHERS capacity to elicit empa- Two Young Migrants and the Making of an thy and identification THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN American Life AMERICANS By Lauren Markham to imagine a better By Cristina Henríquez world. It is also a possi- When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible Growing up in rural El Salvador, the United States was injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul ble world. Exit West Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States Flores—until, at age seventeen, a deadly threat from the does not lead to utopia, so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they region’s brutal gangs forces them to flee. In this urgent arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention chronicle of contemporary immigration, journalist but to a near future and of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who Markham follows the twins as they make their way across AWARDS sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, into the hands of the dim shapes of Winner – 2018 Their love story sets in motion events that will have immigration authorities, and from there to their older strangers that we can Los Angeles Times Book profound repercussions for everyone involved. brother in Oakland, CA. Prize for Fiction READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILBLE see through a distant doorway. All we have to do is step through it and meet them.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times Book Review
n a country on the brink of civil war, two young struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to THE LINE BECOMES people meet— fiercely independent Nadia and the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate I A RIVER gentle Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable Dispatches From The Border MY BELOVED WORLD and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both By Francisco Cantú By Sonia Sotomayor by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, completely of our time and for all time. Francisco Cantú’s mother, a park ranger and daughter The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the turning familiar streets into a patchwork of “In spare, crystalline prose, Hamid conveys the of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the Southwest United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear experience of living in a city under siege with sharp, scrublands. As an adult, Cantú joins the Border Patrol, become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor whispers about doors that can whisk people far stabbing immediacy. He shows just how swiftly but his growing awareness of his complicity in a and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she dehumanizing enterprise causes him to quit. But when recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the away. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed ordinary life — with all its banal rituals and routines decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament — can morph into the defensive crouch of life in a mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the to her own extraordinary determination and the power of their homeland and their old lives behind, they find war zone. … [and] how insidiously violence alters border has migrated with him, and now he must know the believing in oneself. a door and step through. . . . the calculus of daily life.” full extent of the violence it wreaks. WINNER - Exit West follows these remarkable characters as —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE 2013 School Library Journal Best Adult Books of The Year they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to Princeton
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s story is as compulsively readable as a novel, an AN AMERICAN FAMILY A Memoir of Hope and CALL ME AMERICAN all-American tall tale Sacrifice A Memoir that just happens to be By Khizr Khan By Abdi Nor Iftin In fewer than three hundred words, Khizr Khan electrified Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As true. From homeless viewers around the world when he took the stage at the a child, he learned English by listening to American pop shelter to Princeton, 2016 Democratic National Convention. But who was that and watching action films. When U.S. marines landed in man, standing beside his wife, extolling the promises Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered their Oxford, and Stanford, and virtues of the U.S. Constitution? An American Family arrival. But when a radical Islamist group rose to power in shows us who Khizr Khan and millions of other American 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. through the grace not immigrants are, and why—especially in these tumultuous Abdi was forced to flee, eventually ending up in Maine. only of his own hard times—we must not be afraid to step forward for what we Iftin’s memoir is a vivid reminder of why America still believe in when it matters most. beckons to those looking to make a better life. work but his mother’s TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE discipline and care, he documents the America we should still aspire to be.”
— Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President of the New America Foundation READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE an-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated two dream. As a boy, he arrived in the U.S. legally worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where D GREETINGS FROM with his family from Santo Domingo to seek medical he lived with his brother and his mother, and the BURY PARK THE KITE RUNNER care for his mother. Soon the family’s visas lapsed, ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, By Sarfraz Manzoor By Khaled Hosseini and Dan-el’s father returned home. But Dan-el’s where he rose to the top of his class. From Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely mother decided to stay and make a better life for Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton, where emigrated from Pakistan to Britain with his family. friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his her sons in New York City. While Dan-el was only he made the momentous decision to come out He spent his teen years in a constant battle, trying to father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, in grade school, he lived in a homeless shelter as an undocumented student in a Wall Street reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in. The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a where Dan-el’s only refuge was the meager library. Journal profile before he gave the address at his But when his best friend introduced him to the music tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. At another shelter he met Jeff, a young volunteer commencement. Undocumented is essential of Bruce Springsteen, his life changed completely. Both A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power a tribute to The Boss and a story of personal discovery, of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck reading for the debate on immigration, but it is Greetings from Bury Park is a warm, irreverent, and redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers by Dan-el’s passion for books and learning. With also an unforgettable tale of a passionate young exceptionally perceptive memoir about how music over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. Jeff’s help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to scholar coming of age in two very different worlds. transcends religion and race. Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country.
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The bestselling memoir about identity, love, and understanding
THE GIRL WHO SMILED BEADS A Story of War and What “The power of Conley’s Comes After By Clemantine Wamariya story resides not only in AMERICANAH and Elizabeth Weil By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the vividly depicted Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they Clemantine Wamariya was six when she witnessed the grotesqueries of the depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self- beginnings the Rwandan Genocide. In 1994, she and assured Ifemelu heads for America, where she is forced to her sister fled the massacre and spent the next six years therapy system, but in grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. migrating through seven African countries. They did not his lyrical writing about Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but after know whether their parents were dead or alive. At 12, they 9/11 he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented were granted refugee status in the U.S. Clemantine was sexuality and love, and life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly taken in by a Chicago family who raised her as their own. democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each She seemed to live the American dream, but the years of his reflections on the other and for their homeland. being treated as less than human could not be erased. Southern family and WINNER - National Book Critics Circle Award TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE culture that shaped READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE him.”
—Los Angeles Times
he son of a Baptist pastor and deeply when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Tembedded in church life in small town Garrard found the strength to break out in search Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was of his true self and forgiveness. HOMEGOING THINGS FALL APART terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When By Yaa Gyasi By Chinua Achebe By confronting his buried past and the burden of he was a college student, he was outed to his Ghana, eighteenth century: two half-sisters are born into Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex parents, and was forced to make a life-changing different villages, each unaware of the other. One will stories, both of which center on Okonkwo, a “strong man” relationships among family, faith, and community. decision: either agree to attend a church- marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first story traces Okonkwo’s Boy Erased is a testament to love that survives Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid fall from grace within his tribal world. The second story, supported conversion therapy program that despite all odds. on her village and sold into slavery. Gyasi’s extraordinary which is as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo’s world losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to “Exceptionally well-written... This timely addition who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how through the arrival of European missionaries. Things Fall every day. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step to the debate on conversion therapy will build the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of Apart is the most illuminating and permanent monument Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed sympathy for both children and parents who avail our nation. we have to the modern African experience. to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, and stronger in themselves of it while still showing how damaging WINNER – Pen/Hemingway Award WINNER – Man Booker International Prize his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even it can be.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review WINNER – NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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The Hilarious Coming-Of-Age Memoir from The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah
BECOMING NICOLE The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her LOT “[A] compelling new Born a Crime is not extraordinary family Stories memoir . . . By turns just an unnerving By Amy Ellis Nutt By Bryan Washington When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin In the city of Houston, the son of a black mother and alarming, sad and account of growing up boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn’t a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his funny, [Trevor Noah’s] in South Africa under long before they noticed Jonas liked many of the things family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, little boys were “supposed” to like, but Wyatt liked princess resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he book provides a apartheid, but a love dolls and dress-up. Confusion over Wyatt’s insistence likes boys. Bryan Washington’s viscerally drawn world that he was female began to tear the family apart. The vibrates with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people harrowing look, letter to the author’s Maineses came to question their long-held views on searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a through the prism of remarkable mother.” gender and identity, to accept and embrace Wyatt’s community, a family, and a life, Lot explores trust and love transition to Nicole, and to undergo an emotionally in all its unsparing and unsteady forms. Mr. Noah’s family, at life —Michiko Kakutani, wrenching transformation of their own. The New York Times in South Africa under TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE apartheid. . . .
TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE TOMORROW WILL BE revor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young MY BROTHER’S DIFFERENT Africa to The Daily Show began with a criminal boy who grows into a restless young man. It is HUSBAND Love, Loss, and the Fight for T Volumes 1 & 2 Trans Equality act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss also the story of his relationship with his fearless, By Gengoroh Tagame; By Sarah McBride; father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when rebellious, and religious mother. Whether eating Translated by Anne Ishii Foreword by Joe Biden such a union was punishable with prison. Trevor caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being Yaichi is a suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly Before she became the first transgender person to was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his thrown from a moving car during an attempted married to Natsuki, father to their daughter, Kana. Their speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the life, bound by the extreme and absurd measures kidnapping, or just trying to survive the pitfalls in lives change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the his mother took to hide him. Finally liberated by the high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, the widower decision to come out—not just to her family but to the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor with wit and honesty. His stories form a moving and of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. What follows is an students of American University, where she was student and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, funny portrait of a boy making his way through unprecedented and heartbreaking look at a largely still- body president. Four years later, McBride was one of closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the nation’s most prominent transgender activists. living openly and freely and embracing the a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed the West, and how the next generation can change the Informative, heartbreaking, and profoundly empowering, opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. McBride’s story of love and loss is a powerful entry point unconventional, unconditional love. WINNER - 2018 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights. International Material — Asia READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
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The romantic comedy of manners that became the basis for the hit movie
“Jane Austen, or maybe “Kwan’s debut is a CANE Edith Wharton, goes to fun, over-the-top By Jean Toomer; Introduction by THE MARCH TRILOGY Singapore, turning in romp through the George B. Hutchinson; By John Lewis and Foreword by Andrew Aydin; this lively, entertaining unbelievable world Zinzi Clemmons Illustrated by Nate Powell novel of manners. . . . of the Asian jet set. . . . First published in 1923 and told through a series of Congressman John Lewis is an American icon and key vignettes, Cane uses poetry, prose, and play-like dialogue figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to Kwan’s characters are A witty tongue-in- to create a window into the varied lives of African- justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama urban sophisticates par cheek frolic about Americans living in the rural South and urban North sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a during a time when Jim Crow laws pervaded and racism segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, excellence . . . A diverse what it means to be reigned. While critically acclaimed at the time, the book to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African- wasn’t widely popular, probably because it portrayed American president. Now Lewis presents March, a graphic set of characters and a from really old African Americans in an accurate and entirely human way. novel trilogy and a vivid first-hand account of his lifelong light, unstrained touch money and what it’s struggle for civil and human rights. WINNER - move Kwan’s story like to be crazy rich.” 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE along. . . . An elegant —Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week comedy and an auspicious debut.”
—Kirkus (starred review)
READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE A MIGHTY LONG WAY My Journey to Justice hen Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer Uproarious and addictive, Crazy Rich Asians is at Little Rock Central in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas an insider’s look at the Asian Jet Set; a perfect High School W A DIFFERENT Young, she envisions a humble family home, depiction of the clash between old money and new By Carlotta Walls LaNier and DRUMMER Lisa Frazier Page; long drives to explore the island, and quality time money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland By William Melvin Kelley Foreword by Bill Clinton with the man she might one day marry. What she Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means Nearly three decades after its first publication, A Different When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home looks like to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, a palace, that she’ll ride in more private planes and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter she and 8 other black students only wanted to make it “A juicy, close anthropological read of Singapore than cars, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible struggle for African-American civil rights. This is the story to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they high society and its social and mating rituals . . . He bachelors on her arm, Rachel has a target on her of Tucker Caliban, a black Southerner who one day salts came to be known, would lead the nation on an even gets the idiosyncratic details right . . . and he does back. Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock and, longer and much more turbulent path, one that would a particularly good job of illustrating the divide . with his wife and child, sets off a mass exodus of his challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in . . between mainland wealth and establishment mythical state’s entire black population. forever change the landscape of America. the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, money—an uneasy tension that is very real.” TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE Nick’s formidable mother, who has strong feelings —Janice Y. K. Lee about who her son should—and should not—marry.
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