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DRAMA
The Jack Plays

James Still
Format: Book

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FICTION
The life list of Adrian Mandrick : a novel

Chris White - Touchstone
Format: Print book

"H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the Thing with Feathers in this evocative debut novel about a pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to find one of the world's rarest species, allowing nothing to get in his way--until he's forced to confront his obsessions...
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NONFICTION
The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"Ross Gay's eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us." - Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays,...
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POETRY
Sightseer in This Killing City

Eugene Gloria
Format: Paperback


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EMERGING
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back

Melissa Stephenson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate...
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GENRE
Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel

Maurice Broaddus

SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PRICE FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUSTWarning: Don't Believe the Hype!All the poet called Sleepy wants to do is spit his verses, smoke chiba, and stay off the COP's radar - all of which becomes impossible once he encounters a professional protestor known as (120 Degrees...
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YOUNG ADULT
All the Things We Do in the Dark

Saundra Mitchell - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Sadie meets Girl in Pieces in this dark, emotional thriller by acclaimed author Saundra Mitchell.Something happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. Ava would rather keep that something hidden - buried deep in her heart and her soul.But in the woods on the outskirts of town,...
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CHILDREN'S
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

PHILLIP HOOSE - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece...
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Find the 2020 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Shortlist at https://tinyurl.com/f2een948