Best of 2020
Children's Books
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A girl like you
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All of a sudden and forever : help and healing after the Oklahoma City bombing
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Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel
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Consent (for kids!) : boundaries, respect, and being in charge of you
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Echo Mountain
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Feathered serpent and the five suns : a Mesoamerican creation myth
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Hike
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In a jar
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One little bag : an amazing journey
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Overground railroad
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Prairie lotus
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Show Me a Sign
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Snapdragon
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The blackbird girls
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
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The paper kingdom
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The time of green magic
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Three keys : a Front desk novel
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What will these hands make?
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You matter
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Your name is a song
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Your place in the universe
Teen
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A game of fox & squirrels
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A phoenix first must burn
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A song of wraiths and ruin
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All these monsters
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Aurora Burning
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Cemetery Boys
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Clap When You Land
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Date me, Bryson Keller
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Felix ever after
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Fighting words
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Hard wired
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Legendborn
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Raybearer
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Return of the thief : a Queen's thief novel
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The Inheritance Games
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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
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They went left
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This light between us : a novel of World War II
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Three things I know are true : a novel
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You should see me in a crown
Fiction
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A beautiful crime : a novel
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A deadly education : a novel
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A Star is Bored
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And their children after them
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Boyfriend material
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Breasts and eggs
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Come Tumbling Down
In the anticipated fifth installment of the Wayward Children series, Seanan McGuire returns to Eleanor West’s School for Wayward
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Conventionally yours
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Crossings : consisting of three manuscripts
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Fresh water for flowers
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Hurricane season
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Little constructions : a novel
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Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
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Oona Out of Order
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Our riches
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Please see us
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Saint X
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Simmer down
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Smoke bitten
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Straight from the horse's mouth : a novel
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Take a hint, Dani Brown : a novel
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The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning speculative fiction writer.
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The exiles : a novel
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The house in the cerulean sea
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
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The lying life of adults
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The pull of the stars : a novel
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The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
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The truants
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Trouble the Saints
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Utopia Avenue : a novel
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Writers & lovers : a novel
Non-Fiction
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A handful of earth, a handful of sky : the world of octavia butler
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A promised land
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Apropos of nothing
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Begin again : James Baldwin's America and it's urgent lessons for our own
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Caste : the origins of our discontents
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City at the edge of forever : Los Angeles reimagined
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Don't believe a word : the surprising truth about language
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First principles : what our first four presidents learned from the Greeks and Romans
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Happiness becomes you : a guide to changing your life for good
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Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoir
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Life on a string : the Yale Puppeteers and the Turnabout Puppet Theatre
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Make me rain : poems & prose
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Mastering bread : the art and practice of handmade sourdough, yeasted bread, and pastry
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Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
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On all fronts : the education of a journalist
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Our bodies, their battlefields : war through the lives of women
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Separated : inside an American tragedy
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Slouching towards los angeles : Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light
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Solutions and other problems
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Something that may shock and discredit you
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Spirit run : a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land
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Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between
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The chiffon trenches : a memoir
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The Compton cowboys : the new generation of cowboys in America's urban heartland
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The luckiest man : life with John McCain
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The man who ate too much : the life of James Beard
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The Undocumented Americans
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The Watergate girl : my fight for truth and justice against a criminal president
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The well-gardened mind : the restorative power of nature
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The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world -- and globalization began
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Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
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Undaunted : my fight against America's enemies, at home and abroad
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When time stopped : a memoir of my father's war and what remains /
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White tears/brown scars : How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
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Why we swim
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Wow, no thank you : essays
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Wuhan diary : dispatches from a quarantined city
Graphic Novels
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A man & his cat. 1
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Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
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Dragon Hoops
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Flamer
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Go With the Flow
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Long way down : the graphic novel
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Snapdragon
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Venus in the blind spot
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When Stars are Scattered