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25.

Reading the waves : a memoir

Yuknavitch, Lidia, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

813.6 YUK

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SD_ILS:796447

26.

Talk to me : lessons from a family forged by history

Benjamin, Rich (Richard M.), author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

929.2 BEN

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SD_ILS:796462

27.

Written in the waters : a memoir of history, home, and belonging

Roberts, Tara, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

920.573 ROB

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SD_ILS:796473

28.

You are a star, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robbins, Dean, 1957- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

323 ROB

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SD_ILS:794132

29.

Antisemitism in America : a warning

Schumer, Charles E., author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

305.8924 SCH

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SD_ILS:795025

30.

Take my name but say it slow : essays

Dai, Thomas, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.6 DAI

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SD_ILS:794985

31.

This changes everything : a surprisingly funny story about race, cancer, faith, and other things we don't talk about

Merritt, Tyler, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

616.994 MER

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SD_ILS:794988

32.

One day, everyone will have always been against this

El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

819.36 ELA

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SD_ILS:795142

33.

The loves of my life : a sex memoir

White, Edmund, 1940- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

928.154 WHI

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SD_ILS:795120

34.

Ella Fitzgerald : the official graphic novel

Nwadiogbu, Ngozi, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

782.42165 NWA

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SD_ILS:795290

35.

One day, everyone will have always been against this [large print]

El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author.

Publication Date

2025

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Book

Call Number

819.36 ELA

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SD_ILS:795444

36.

Love and need : the life of Robert Frost's poetry

Plunkett, Adam, 1987- author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

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Call Number

811.52 PLU

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SD_ILS:799012

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