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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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The Best Charlotte Bronte Poems Everyone Should ReadInteresting Literature.comNov 21st 2019
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The Best Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems Everyone Should ReadInteresting Literature.comNov 20th 2019
What Tweets and Emojis Did to the NovelNew York Times BooksNov 20th 2019
‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of HopeNew York Times BooksNov 19th 2019
When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen OriginalNew York Times BooksNov 19th 2019
10 of the Best Poems about Heroes and HeroismInteresting Literature.comNov 19th 2019
A Tiny Brontë Book Comes HomeNew York Times BooksNov 18th 2019
Random House Names a New Publisher and Hires a Top Editor From KnopfNew York Times BooksNov 18th 2019
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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!

688: The Out Crowd

This American LifeSun, November 17th - 6:00 PM 2019
Episode 152: Let it Snow

Memory PalaceThu, November 14th - 8:08 PM 2019
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Snap JudgmentThu, November 14th - 12:00 PM 2019
687: Small Things Considered

This American LifeSun, November 10th - 6:00 PM 2019
Dolly Parton's America: Neon Moss

RadiolabThu, November 7th - 9:46 PM 2019
The Lamb, the Lion, and the Fox

Snap JudgmentThu, November 7th - 12:00 PM 2019
239: Lost in America

This American LifeSun, November 3rd - 5:00 PM 2019
Godsend - Snap Classic

Snap JudgmentThu, October 31st - 12:00 PM 2019
Songs that Cross Borders

RadiolabTue, October 29th - 9:53 PM 2019
Spooked - Sharp Tooth Boy

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