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• The Mighty Red

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Set in the Red River Valley during the 2008 economic crisis, The Mighty Red follows the wedding between Kismet, a former Goth, and Gary, whose family owns a sugar beet farm. There's also: fracking, a love triangle, missing money, and a tragedy in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Orange Night

  My Journey to the Edge of Madness

  Bond, Melissa (Melissa A.),

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  A lot of attention has gone to the opioid crisis, but journalist and poet Melissa Bond brings attention to the overprescription and addiction of benzodiazepines (Xanax and Valium are two of the most prominent). She shares her personal story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hidden Yellow Stars

  Connolly, Rebecca,

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  Based on actual events, Hidden Yellow Stars follows the social workers of Belgium's Committee for the Defense of Jews who worked to hide over 3000 Jewish children during World War II.

• The Green Ages

  Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

  Kehnel, Annette,

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  What can we learn from our ancestors? Historian Kehnel explores how practices in the Middle Ages can teach us a way forward through some of today's biggest challenges.

• Blue Graffiti

  a Novel

  Skogman, Calahan

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  Twenty-nine-year-old Cash has spent all his life in Johnston, Wisconsin, his days an accumulation of odd jobs and evening visits to the local bar. It's at this same bar that Cash meets Rose, and life won't be the same. This tender debut has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigo Ridge

  Perry, Devney

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  New Quincy, Montana police chief Winslow Covington is trying to forge her own name in a town where her grandfather is the mayor. Complicating matters: her first night in town, she has a one-night stand with the son of the town's founding family, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dress of Violet Taffeta

  Arlen, Tessa,

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  Lucy Duff Gordon, desperate after her husband leaves her, turns to her eye for fashion to support her, her daughter, and mother. First, she must survive as a woman in the male-dominated world of haute couture, then she becomes one of the survivors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Purple Rising

  Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of The Color Purple

  Funderburg, Lise,

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  The Color Purple, first published in 1982, was a Pulitzer-winning novel, adapted for the screen by Steven Spielberg, turned into a Tony Award-winning musical, which was then adapted for film. Learn all about the legacy of this powerful story through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pink Slime

  Trías, Fernanda, 1976-

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  Uruguayan author Trias imagines a city in the midst of an environmental apocalypse caused aby algae. It has decimated the food supply, causing the people to rely on a manufactured pink slime for sustenance. In the midst of this chaos, the narrator…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Saturday

  An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza

  Yingst, Trey,

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  A correspondent who was on the ground reports on the October 7 Hamas attack on an Israeli music festival.

• White Holes

  Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-

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  Philosophy and physics combine in this tour through the world of black holes from theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, told with an infectious love and wonder for the marvels and secrets of the universe.

• The Universe in 100 Colors

  Weird and Wonderful Colors From Science and Nature

  Thrasher, Tyler,

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  What's even more wondrous and vibrant that colors on canvas? How about the ones found in nature, and specifically the colors in strange and hard-to-access places or those human-made.