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NEW books in the library...

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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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Fiction: An American Pilot, a Muslim Teenager and a Talking Dog All Caught in an Absurd WarNew York Times BooksMay 18th 2019
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Knopf Fires High-Profile Editor Over Policy BreachNew York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
Nonfiction: Singing the Praises of ‘Big Business’New York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
Fiction: Here Come the Brides: A Free-Spirited Fictional WeddingNew York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels. But His True Subject Was Moral Weakness.New York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
Nonfiction: What to Do When You’re a Country in CrisisNew York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
Book Entry: Review: ‘Power Trip’ Ably Guides Us Through the History of EnergyNew York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
The Book Review Podcast: Harper Lee’s Unwritten True-Crime BookNew York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
New in Paperback: ‘Florida,’ ‘Robin’New York Times BooksMay 17th 2019
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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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!

A Wives' Tale - Snap Classic

Snap JudgmentFri, May 17th - 12:00 PM 2019
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This American LifeSun, May 12th - 6:00 PM 2019
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Snap JudgmentSun, May 12th - 12:00 PM 2019
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Snap JudgmentThu, May 9th - 12:00 PM 2019
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RadiolabWed, May 8th - 1:30 PM 2019
172: 24 Hours at the Golden Apple

This American LifeSun, May 5th - 6:00 PM 2019
Dinopocalypse Redux

RadiolabThu, May 2nd - 9:50 PM 2019
Snap Classic - Tricknology

Snap JudgmentThu, May 2nd - 12:00 PM 2019
332: The Ten Commandments

This American LifeSun, April 28th - 6:00 PM 2019
Fu-Go

RadiolabThu, April 25th - 7:05 PM 2019
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