Banned & Challenged Books 2023

1984 By George Orwell, Erich Fromm (Afterword by) Cover Image
By George Orwell, Erich Fromm (Afterword by)
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ISBN: 9780451524935
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Published: Signet -

Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...

• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •


Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Art Spiegelman Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780394747231
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Published: Pantheon - August 12th, 1986

The bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read&rdqu


Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Art Spiegelman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679729778
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Published: Pantheon - September 1st, 1992

The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Re


A Separate Peace By John Knowles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780743253970
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Published: Scribner - September 30th, 2003

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during t


Angela Davis: An Autobiography By Angela Y. Davis Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9781642595680
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Published: Haymarket Books - January 18th, 2022

"An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend."
--Ibram X. Kendi

This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis's classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.


Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition By George Orwell, Russell Baker (Preface by), Tea Obreht (Introduction by) Cover Image
By George Orwell, Russell Baker (Preface by), Tea Obreht (Introduction by)
$9.99
ISBN: 9780451526342
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Published: Signet - April 6th, 2004

75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”


Assata: An Autobiography By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Assata Shakur, Angela Davis (Foreword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781556520747
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Published: Lawrence Hill Books - November 1st, 1999

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J.


Being and Nothingness By Jean-Paul Sartre, Sarah Richmond (Translated by) Cover Image
By Jean-Paul Sartre, Sarah Richmond (Translated by)
$24.00
ISBN: 9781982105457
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Published: Washington Square Press - September 7th, 2021

Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation—the first in more than 60 years—of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal treatise on existentialism.


Beloved (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400033416
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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. 


Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out By Susan Kuklin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780763673680
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Published: Candlewick - March 10th, 2015

A 2015 Stonewall Honor Book

A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.


Black Boy By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
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ISBN: 9780062421050
Published: Harper Perennial - September 29th, 2015

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson.


Bless Me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780446600255
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - April 1st, 1994

From "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" comes a coming-of-age classic and the bestselling Chicano novel of all time that follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs -- now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" (Denver Post).


Blood in the Water: A True Story of Small-Town Revenge By Silver Donald Cameron Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781586422936
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Published: Steerforth - November 23rd, 2021

“Fascinating! [A] must-read for all concerned about how humans manage to live together. Or not.” Margaret Atwood

“Superb... an instant true crime classic.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)


Brave New World By Aldous Huxley Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780060850524
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - October 17th, 2006

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit

"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal 


Burned By Ellen Hopkins Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781442494619
Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - September 10th, 2013

Pattyn Von Stratten is searching for the love she isn’t getting from God or her family in this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.

It all started with a dream. Just a typical fantasy, but for a girl raised in a religious—and abusive—family, a simple dream could be the first step toward eternal damnation.


The Call of the Wild By Jack London Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781423646778
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Published: Gibbs Smith - March 7th, 2017

A classic novel reissued for contemporary readers.

Rediscover Jack London's beloved classic in this unique hardbound edition. First published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903, The Call of the Wild has never been out of print.


Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #6) By Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9781338864342
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Published: Scholastic Inc. - March 7th, 2023

George and Harold's nemesis Melvin Sneedly goes from snooty to snotty in the sixth book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!

George and Harold are up to their old tricks again, and when their latest prank makes a direct hit on school brainiac Melvin, he decides to get even!


Child of God (Vintage International) By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679728740
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Published: Vintage - June 29th, 1993

In this taut, chilling novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, Lester Ballarda violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.


Choke By Chuck Palahniuk Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385720922
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Published: Anchor - June 11th, 2002

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.


Class Act: A Graphic Novel By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780062885500
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Published: Quill Tree Books - October 6th, 2020

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize.


Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition: An Introduction (Critical America #87) By Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris (Foreword by) Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781479818259
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Published: New York University Press - March 14th, 2023

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory


Different Seasons: Four Novellas By Stephen King Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501143489
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Published: Scribner - March 29th, 2016

Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bou


Drown By Junot Díaz Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781573226066
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 1st, 1997

From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World.
 


Fahrenheit 451: A Novel By Ray Bradbury Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781451673265
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 10th, 2012

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman.


Feed By M.T. Anderson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780763662622
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Published: Candlewick - July 17th, 2012

A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection

The tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction — in a compelling paperback edition.


For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780684803357
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Published: Scribner - July 1st, 1995

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance.


Forever . . . By Judy Blume Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781481414432
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - April 29th, 2014

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Judy Blume’s groundbreaking novel about first relationships, first love, and…the first time.

The bed is brass, covered with a patchwork quilt, and “nice and firm,” Michael says, “in case you’re interested.”

Katherine is interested.

Katherine and Michae


Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 By Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593449349
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Published: One World - February 1st, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.


Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Alison Bechdel Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780618871711
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Published: Mariner Books Classics - June 5th, 2007

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER 
Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • 
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award •  Double finalist for the Lambda


Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition By Maia Kobabe Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781637150726
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Published: Oni Press - July 5th, 2022

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book


In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer.


Melissa (previously published as GEORGE) By Alex Gino Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781338843415
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Published: Scholastic Press - April 19th, 2022

BE WHO YOU ARE.

When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.

Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. Melissa really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte.


Girl with a Pearl Earring By Tracy Chevalier Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9780452287020
Published: Plume Books - September 1st, 2005

Celebrate Tracy Chevalier's modern classic Girl With A Pearl Earring, featuring a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of Vermeer's masterworks. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening.


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Girl, Interrupted By Susanna Kaysen Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679746041
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Published: Vintage - April 19th, 1994

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review).


How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781565129757
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Published: Algonquin Books - January 12th, 2010

From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents  is "poignant...powerful...


How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America By Clint Smith Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316492928
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - December 27th, 2022

This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are ho


I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck (Vintage International) By James Baldwin, Raoul Peck Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525434696
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Published: Vintage - February 7th, 2017

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.


Invisible Man (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) By Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson (Preface by) Cover Image
By Ralph Ellison, Charles Johnson (Preface by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9780679601395
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Published: Modern Library - June 14th, 1994

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read


Kaffir Boy: The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa By Mark Mathabane Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780684848280
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Published: Free Press - October 7th, 1998

The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.

Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years.


Lawn Boy By Jonathan Evison Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781616209230
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 19th, 2019

Recipient of the 2019 Alex Award​​

“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . .


Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies By Laura Esquivel Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780385420174
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Published: Anchor - October 1st, 1995

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes.


Looking for Alaska By John Green Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525556541
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Published: Dutton Books for Young Readers - April 4th, 2023

The award-winning debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.

Last words. 


Lord of the Flies By William Golding, Lois Lowry (Afterword by), Jennifer Buehler (Contributions by) Cover Image
By William Golding, Lois Lowry (Afterword by), Jennifer Buehler (Contributions by)
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ISBN: 9780399501487
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Published: Penguin Books - December 16th, 2003

Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
 
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.


Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media By Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780375714498
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Published: Pantheon - January 15th, 2002

A "compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions" (The New York Times Book Review) due to the underlying economics of publishingfrom famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.


Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition) By Jesse Andrews Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781419719608
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Published: Amulet Books - April 21st, 2015

The New York Times bestselling novel that inspired the hit film!
 
This is the funniest book you’ll ever read about death.
 
It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he’s figured it out.


Monday's Not Coming By Tiffany D. Jackson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062422682
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Published: Katherine Tegen Books - April 23rd, 2019

"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")


My Brother Sam Is Dead (Scholastic Gold) By James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780439783606
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Published: Scholastic Paperbacks - June 1st, 2005

This classic Newbery Honor Book joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!

All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion.


Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting By in America By Barbara Ehrenreich Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250808318
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Published: Picador - June 1st, 2021

The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted


Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780140177398
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Published: Penguin Books - September 1st, 1993

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
 
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.


Palestine By Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said (Introduction by)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781560974321
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Published: Fantagraphics - December 17th, 2001

A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction.


Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library) By Marjane Satrapi Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780375714573
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Published: Pantheon - June 1st, 2004

BEST SELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.


Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU By Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth (Illustrator)
$25.95
ISBN: 9781609806064
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Published: Triangle Square - July 28th, 2015

2016 Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction 

2016 ALA Stonewall Book Award, Honor Book

2016 ALA Notable Children's Book


Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda By Becky Albertalli Cover Image
$11.99
ISBN: 9780062348685
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Published: Balzer + Bray - June 7th, 2016

Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford!

William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist

"A remarkable gift of a novel."—Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle


The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases By Deborah Halber Cover Image
$19.80
ISBN: 9781451657593
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 28th, 2015

Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this “lively study that’s part whodunit, part sociological study…The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives” (Publishers Weekly).

Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted for.