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I Love You, Michael Collins

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I Love You, Michael Collins By Lauren Baratz-Logsted Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374303853
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - June 20th, 2017

Mamie starts writing to Michael Collins, the astronaut who's going to stay behind when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon, for a school assignment, but she keeps writing to him throughout the summer of 1969, as everyone seems to be leaving her behind.


Guidebook to Relative Strangers

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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History By Camille T. Dungy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393253757
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 13th, 2017

An absolutely brilliant essay collection covering race, motherhood, career, travel, and more. I don't usually take the time to appreciate individual lines in a book, but the sentences here had me stopping to savor each one.


Ginny Moon

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Ginny Moon By Benjamin Ludwig Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780778330165
Published: Park Row - May 2nd, 2017

13-year-old Ginny, autistic and newly adopted, is determined to reconnect with her birth mother, but she isn't able to make anyone understand why. So she plots her escape and goes off on her own to save the one person who depends on her.

Sarah


Lower Ed

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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy By Tressie McMillan Cottom Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781620970607
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Published: New Press - February 28th, 2017

A sociologist looks at why so many turn to for-profit colleges that don't deliver -- but it's so much more interesting than that sounds, because it's really an insightful and well-written critique of pretty much all of modern life.

Sarah


Things I Should Have Known

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Things I Should Have Known By Claire LaZebnik Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780544829695
Published: Clarion Books - March 28th, 2017

Chloe decides she needs to find her sister Ivy -- on the autism spectrum -- a boyfriend before she leaves for college. When Ivy connects with Ethan, Chloe finds herself spending a lot of time with his brother David, who she can't stand. But there are surprises ahead for all of them.

Sarah


The Education of Margot Sanchez

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The Education of Margot Sanchez By Lilliam Rivera Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781481472111
Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - February 21st, 2017

After a round of overspending on the parental credit card, Margot has to spend the summer working in her dad's Bronx supermarket, a different world from the fancy private school where she always feels like an outsider.

Sarah


We'll Always Have Casablanca

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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie By Noah Isenberg Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393243123
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 14th, 2017

Behind the scenes of one of the defining movies of the twentieth century, from the real refugees playing refugees on-screen to how the Brattle Theatre helped make it a classic.

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