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NEW books in the library...

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer
Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
Make Trouble
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
How Music Works
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The Sun and Her Flowers
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

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10 of the Best Poems about RegretInteresting Literature.comOct 20th 2019
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J.D. Salinger, UnboundNew York Times BooksOct 19th 2019
What’s in the Murder Book? Marilyn Stasio Wants to Know.New York Times BooksOct 18th 2019
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’New York Times BooksOct 18th 2019
Two Poets With Alert and Nimble Eyes on American LifeNew York Times BooksOct 18th 2019
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.New York Times BooksOct 18th 2019
How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink RaceNew York Times BooksOct 18th 2019
Eros in Dystopia: Fred Saberhagen’s Love Conquers AllInteresting Literature.comOct 18th 2019
Sara Danius, 57, Dies; First Woman to Head Nobel Literature CommitteeNew York Times BooksOct 17th 2019
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Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

RSS Feed of Podcasts to check out, recommended by your teachers!

686: Umbrellas Up

This American LifeSun, October 20th - 6:00 PM 2019
Spooked - Mrs. Hagstrom

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RadiolabTue, October 15th - 9:08 PM 2019
685: We Come From Small Places

This American LifeSun, October 13th - 6:00 PM 2019
Turncoat

Snap JudgmentThu, October 10th - 12:00 PM 2019
581: Anatomy of Doubt

This American LifeSun, October 6th - 6:00 PM 2019
Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean

Memory PalaceThu, October 3rd - 9:38 PM 2019
The Other Hand - Love + Radio

Snap JudgmentThu, October 3rd - 12:00 PM 2019
Revisionist History Presents: The Happiness Lab

Revisionist HistoryTue, October 1st - 12:00 AM 2019
684: Burn It Down

This American LifeSun, September 29th - 6:00 PM 2019
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