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Adult Summer Reading 2023: Historical Fiction
Adult Summer Reading: New England Based-Authors
New Books in a Bag: February 2024
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Adult Summer Reading: New England Based-Authors
New Books in a Bag: February 2024
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"New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing...
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Coming Soon Book Group Titles: February 2023
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Coming Soon Book Group Titles: February 2023
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"Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history. In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to...
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