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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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‘Prelude’: A Summary of the Katherine Mansfield StoryInteresting Literature.comJul 16th 2019
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354: Mistakes Were Made

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Crazy GeniusWed, June 26th - 6:00 AM 2019
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