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  Amigas (Lights, Camera, Quince!)

  by Veronica Chambers

  Four friends. One sweet fifteen. Miami is heating up!     Miami, Florida, has it all--beaches, boys, sun, and fun. It also has quinceneras. Lots of them! The fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen are a staple of the Miami social scene. For Alicia Cruz and her three best friends--Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz--they are just part of the background of summer.   But this summer, things are going to... (more)
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  The Twelve Teas of Friendship

  by Emilie Barnes, Anne Christian Buchanan

  From the author who brought you If Teacups Could Talk and The Twelve Teas® of Christmas, Emilie Barnes offers a warm and exciting tea party theme for each month of the year. Delightful decorating ideas and delectable teatime recipes will inspire you to welcome friends into your home. Soft, quiet rooms, lush floral gardens, and peaceful ocean settings created by artist Susan Rios provide the perfect... (more)
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  Seven Candles for Kwanzaa

  by Andrea Davis Pinkney

  For more than 25 years, African-American families have celebrated Kwanzaa--a holiday, inspired by their ancestors, that celebrates the harvest season. With a rich, informative text and stunning four-color illustrations, this book will help young children to begin their own Kwanzaa celebration.
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  The Very First Thanksgiving Day

  by Rhonda Gowler Greene

  This is the food, gathered and blessed, the corn and sweet berries, and wild turkey dressed, shared on the very first Thanksgiving Day. Join author Rhonda Gowler Greene and illustrator Susan Gaber on a journey back to the very first Thanksgiving Day, when two societies came together to feast and honor the earth's bounty in peace.
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  The Twelve Teas® of Inspiration: Celebrations to Nourish the Soul

  by Emilie Barnes

  Participating in teatime is an act of connection, community, and pure inspiration. Bestselling author Emilie Barnes illuminates 12 themed teas that honor milestones, special people, and everyday moments— Words to Live By New Beginning Role Model Thankful Heart A Thing of Beauty Artist Susan Rios’ paintings transport readers to the place of possibility alongside each tea’s fresh ideas and... (more)
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  The Un-Wedding

  by Babette Cole

  From the creator of the hilarious Dr. Dog and Drop Dead and the refreshing Mummy Laid an Egg comes a lighthearted yet helpful introduction to the difficult topic of divorce for children. Demetrius and Paula Ogglebutt have problem parents who never agree about anything and play childish tricks on each other. After calling a meeting at school for anyone with problem parents, the beleaguered brother and sister... (more)
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  Love Is Forever

  by Joan Walsh Anglund

  It's been forty years since Joan Walsh Anglund's beloved book A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You was first published. In celebration, this charming new meditation on the wonders of love will delight readers of all ages with its cheerful perspective on life's many pleasures.
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  Naty's Parade

  by Gina Freschet

  Naty is so excited - this is the first year she gets to be one of the puppet people in the parade celebrating Guelaguetza, a July festival of folk dances in southern Mexico. At first the sights are overwhelming - the feather dancers, the pi-a (pineapple) girls, the fish-men who perform El Pescado, the dance of the fish. Then her father helps her into her mouse costume and sees her off to a safe start in the... (more)
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  Friday Nights of Nana, The

  by Amy Hest

  Jennie helps her grandmother prepare for a family Sabbath celebration.
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  The Call to Shakabaz

  by Amy Wachspress

  Wachspress sidesteps many of the usual conventions and offers original resolutions to a variety of sticky situations. When the recently orphaned Goodacre children are transported to the land of Faracadar, they must discover and develop their special gifts and talents, which require that they exercise ingenuity, creativity, and compassion. Fourteen-year-old Doshmisi and her younger siblings Denzel, Maia, and Sonjay... (more)
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  Telling: A Loving Hagadah for Passover (Nonsexist Yet Traditional Judaism: Fast and Feast)

  by Dov Ben-Khayyim

  From the Introduction: "The Pesakh story has been told for several thousand years, but its lessons and magic continue to provide meaning to this very day. It is especially relevant today, when so many of us are alientated, pessimistic, fearful and in need of spiritual sustenance." The late Dov Ben Khayyim, changed very little of the traditional Hagadah, when he first edited the book in 1983. He said "I simply... (more)
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  Rubber Houses

  by Ellen Yeomans

  Typical teenager Kit lives a happy, normal life of friends, boys, and loving family. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are incredibly close despite their eight-year age difference, bonded by a shared love of baseball and math. But when Buddy is taken suddenly by cancer, Kit and her parents struggle to survive. Told in spare, lyrical verse, Rubber Houses is a powerful novel that perfectly captures the... (more)
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  Phryne Fisher: Book 16

  Murder in the Dark

  by Kerry Greenwood

  It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly decides to accept the invitation. No one tells Phryne Fisher what to... (more)
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  Peter Spier's Christmas

  by Peter Spier

  A wordless picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning artist of Noah's Ark contains more than ninety full-color paintings capturing the spirit and joy of Christmas through the delights of three young children. Reprint. SLJ. AB.
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  A Quiet Night in (Large Family)

  by Jill Murphy

  For Mr Large's birthday the family plan a quiet night in. But, when Mr and Mrs Large fall asleep the little Larges put themselves to bed - and take the food with them. Jill Murphy has also written the "Worst Witch" series and "Five Minutes' Peace", winner of the 1987 Best Books for Babies Award.
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  HEAVENLETTERS - Love Letters From God - Book 1

  by Gloria Wendroff

  "The heart is the cord that binds together the spiritual and the physical, the soul, and the fi nite world. Heavenletters is like that cord." ~Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., Author, Help Me to Heal "Each letter reads like a beautiful, inspired meditation ... and leaves you wanting more." ~Dick Sutphen, Author, You Were Born Again to Be Together "I am honored that I can receive this treasured guidance. What a... (more)
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  Eli the Good

  by Silas House

  In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family. Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan. Yet for ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his family apart. There is his... (more)
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  Inventing American History (Boston Review Books)

  by William Hogeland

  American public history—in magazines and books, television documentaries, and museums—tends to celebrate its subject at all costs, even to the point of denial and distortion. This does us a great disservice, argues William Hogeland in Inventing American History. Looking at details glossed over in three examples of public history—the Alexander Hamilton revival, tributes to Pete Seeger and William F. Buckley, and... (more)
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  Thirst : poems

  by Mary Oliver

  Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet’s work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without... (more)
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  Bo's Café: A Novel

  by John Lynch, Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol

  High-powered executive Steven Kerner is living the dream in southern California. But when his bottled pain ignites in anger one night, his wife kicks him out. Then an eccentric mystery man named Andy Monroe befriends Steven and begins unravelling his tightly wound world. Andy leads Steven through a series of frustrating and revealing encounters to repair his life through genuine friendship and the grace and love... (more)