In her brand new series 'Thrown Away Children', Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true...
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Author: Allen, LouiseSummary:
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Author: Levy, Debbie, Boyce, Jo Ann AllenSummary:
In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, 14-year-old Jo Ann Allen was one of 12 African American students who broke the color barrier and...
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A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes overlooks Black lesbian writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black...
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Author: George-Allen, SamSummary:
Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. In Witches, Sam George-Allen...
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Author: Allen, Mike, Schwartz, Roy, VandeHei, JimSummary:
Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its...
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Author: Burroughs, William S.Summary:
In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find yage, the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote...
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Author: Moonwalker, LukeSummary:
The Acts of the Compassionates: “The pleasures of this novel come from the absurd situations, the baroque language and the passing shots at everything from gay marriage to wardrobe malfunctions....
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Author: Creighton, DavidSummary:
Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers,...
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Author: Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:
Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve...
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Author: Winston-Macauley, MarnieSummary:
"The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." –Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra...
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Author: Winston-Macauley, MarnieSummary:
"To me, the Jews are funnier than any other group. Why? Because they have had more trouble. And trouble is often the heart of humor." — Steve Allen (who is not Jewish) from A Little Joy...
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Author: Lane, AmySummary:
In a perfect moment of cold November sunshine, pudgy accountant Kit Allen realizes Jesse, his new office assistant, is everything he's ever dreamed about in a man. Feeling supremely unworthy and...
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Author: McAllister, RowanSummary:
Lord James Warren, Viscount Sudbury, lives a quiet, safe and predictable life alone on his estate in Suffolk, only traveling to London once a year to visit family and satisfy his more forbidden...
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Author: Dunbar, HeleneSummary:
Five years after an unspeakable tragedy, Gordie Allen is living with his half-brother Kevin, the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track...
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Author: Schraff, AnneSummary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-...
Genre: Young adult fiction, Language learning