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… go trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Spider in the Well Jess Hannigan 2024 Breaking News: Wishing Well Broken! The townspeople of Bad Göodsburg are up in … the most cursed school play ever. Dory Fantasmagory: Can't Live Without You Abby Hanlon 2023 Dory's separation anxiety …
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Contemporary | Historical | Mystery | Romance | Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror | Classics
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… reckon with his identity and desires and determine how to live on the so-called Cursed Continent. Patsy Nicole … ongoing conversations about race and identity politics, as well as the vulnerability of the black body. Available to … Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as his own slaves, but tragically fails to understand …
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… Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on … each of our nine library locations (and the Dream Bus), as well as to Go Big Read who provided the funding to create the …
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Thrival Tools: On Indigenous Winter Survival and Brilliance took place at the Central Library in downtown Madison on February 26, 2022, and included a series of speakers representing different Tribes…
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… for sharing cultural practices amongst Native peoples, as well as introducing non-Native people to the myriad methods … recipes, and more. Guests could also attend via a Live Stream provided by @GigiiGemin on Facebook. (link is …
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Art, Music, & Literature | Civil Rights & Social Justice | Economics, Business, & Leadership | Food, Health & Wellness | History | Humor | Memoirs & Essays | Sports
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… Anderson draws on economic research and social history as well as her personal story to show why the black economy … women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger. Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, … world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live. You Don't Know Us Negroes and other Essays Zora Neale …
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… banker’s Upper East Side. The women’s lives intertwine as well, in ways both professional and personal. Available to …
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Fiction | History | Biographies | Memoirs and Autobiographies
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… college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a … explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. eBook , eAudio The …
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Most Recommended | Solid Bets | Dark Horses
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… books are going to be talked about most this summer. Well over 200 books were mentioned. The best of the best are …
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July - September 2020 Issue
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… who is rescued by two Civil War veterans who take her to live on their farm in Tennessee. After she and another family … airplane, where they survive by stealing what they need to live. Bieker, Chelsea. Godshot . In a drought-stricken … who lived through the Japanese and French occupations, as well as the long war with the United States, recalled by a …
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Adjusting Making Justice in the time of COVID has meant learning a lot, but teen librarian Jesse Vieau has been leading the charge. The focus on relationships as well as the sense of safety,…
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… has been leading the charge. The focus on relationships as well as the sense of safety, ownership, and voice has always … just stopped by, and was captivated with the piece as well. Everyone is in love with it!” And we are too. If … a lot partnering with the Urban League of Dane County as well as Mike Ford’s Hip Hop Architecture Camp to provide …
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History, Biographies, & Memoirs | Fiction | DC & Marvel | Classic Comics
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… to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is … has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar … transported from Chicago to a very white suburban town to live with their grandfather, providing a caustically humorous …
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… resource. You can receive literacy tips in your inbox, as well, with our bi-weekly Library Kids email newsletter. Sign … Grand Prize, Runner Up, and Age Group winners, as well as 50 additional submissions selected by our panel of … Novels, Comics, and Manga History LGBT Library Kids Live Well @ Your Library MADreads Mystery and …
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In honor of Black History Month, Madison Public Library's music selector Guy Hankel pulled a list of five albums by notable Black artists that have had an outsized influence on American music.
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… learn more about each album and the artist who made it: Live at the Apollo by James Brown and the Famous Flames … you to say that you were present for one of the greatest live albums ever recorded. Brown had scored a string of hit … swing band brought more exposure to secular audiences as well as national success. Her 1944 single, "Strange Things …
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New | Murderers and Their Crimes | Thefts, Conspiracies, and Financial Crimes
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… IndieBound … A mix of current and classic selections, as well as the newest titles. … New The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: … including works by Goya, Gainsborough, and Rubens, as well as Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by the mysterious …
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July-September 2021 Issue
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… A Black woman who is desperate to have a baby contacts a well-known Harlem family to get a piece of caul (a baby’s … who share a love for film, literature and music, as well as a deep vulnerability due to the racism they’ve … Antiquities . In 1949, a retired lawyer returns to live in his old boarding school, which has been converted …
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Khurelbaatar and Erdentuya's first visit to Alicia Ashman Library was just over a year ago. The couple had recently moved to Madison from Mongolia and hoped to apply for asylum.
They were first…
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… connected them to some legal and financial partners, as well as a translator, to get them set up with regular income …
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February is Black History Month, an annual celebration of the achievements by African Americans and a time to honor the central role of black Americans throughout history and in the present day. Find…
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… shows how predatory governance invites complicity from well-meaning people, eviscerates communities, and widens the …
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"You think your pains and your heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things…
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… 1996- Money Magazine ranks Madison #1 as the best place to live in America in 1996 1996- Cosmopolitan included Madison … suggested that Madison was the best place in America to live. From the beginning of the twentieth century, Madison's … because its values are never in doubt and it "wears" well. "Popular songs rise and fall in popularity so rapidly …
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… chime of the music, Mina’s plastered-on grin fell. It was well past dark and the blindingly white lights of the dance … We meet in different homes where the mommies and the kids live. One day when the mommies said playtime was over, the … thing; a lot of invites but I always declined because, well, I had no parents. As always, I went home to my old, …
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Mending
Home Repair
Bicycles & Cycling
Recycling & Reuse
Interested in other DIY pursuits? Take a look at our Gardening, Cookbooks & Food Writing, and Birding …
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… not only the objects we are repairing, but ourselves as well. Hikaru Noguchi's Darning: repair, make, mend Hikaru … dirty guide to a clean home: housekeeping hacks you can't live without Melissa Dilkes Pateras Melissa Dilkes Pateras … for components, and where you can economize creatively. Live to ride: finding joy and meaning on a bicycle Peter Flax …
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Time Travel | Alternate Histories | Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities
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… funeral, Chloe finds her mother unaccountably alive and well. And it's no longer May; she's been transported back in … identity. Available to download: eBook and Audio How To Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu … valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "as his guide, Yu …
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January - March 2017 Issue
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… take part in an idealistic experiment in which they live for two years in a sealed artificial ecological system … novel is a fictional history of an English town, as well as a story about a brother and sister who grow up in a … despite being moved to a tiny attic room, he continues to live with grace, generosity, and dignity. Tremain, Rose. The …
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Best of the Best | Next Level | Another Level | Nonfiction
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… they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of … and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and … span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only …
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April - June 2025 Issue See also:
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… Johnson, Nancy. People of Means . The daughter of a well-off Black Chicago family, who begins college at Fisk … takes the opportunity to put her 14-year-old daughter, as well as a precious manuscript hidden in her suitcase, on a … citizens whose descendants are called Saints, and who live in luxury while other citizens struggle. The main …
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April - June 2022 Issue
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… life experiences who meet on an Amtrak train in 2019, as well as ancestors of those passengers, living in the 1850's. … protect him, but when he reaches adolescence, he goes to live with his uncle and cousin, and gradually comes to accept …
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