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In a tiny Beirut apartment, Raja and his mother live side by side. Raja relishes books, order and solitude, but his octogenarian mother views his desire for privacy as a personal affront.

This love letter to Black life in the United States highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes.

Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle-school life.

Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.

Feel the free wind blow through your hair on "Ventura Highway".

Marshall, a journalist, is sent to a small town to look into an improbable rumor that a horse has given birth to a human baby. As she investigates, she discovers evidence of a murder and becomes drawn into an even deeper and stranger mystery than she expected.

In a Brussels apartment building, an architect and his art-student daughter, an art dealer and his 18-year-old son, a seamstress, a maid, a widowed colonel and others must navigate fear, shifting allegiances and daily life just before and during the Nazi occupation.

Intertwines the author's account of her recovery from an eating disorder with her look into family secrets tied to Palestinian displacement, exploring how her personal trauma reflects generational struggles with colonization and patriarchy in a journey through memory, survival and self-discovery.

In this rhyming, life-cycle picture book, a pine cone becomes something new with each turn of the page.

Spend some time with these hilarious historical ghosts and their living landlords.

Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories a bead holds.

The sole survivor of a zombie apocalypse is immune to the zombie virus and chooses to live alongside the undead-- including his zombified husband and daughter. He tries to maintain a peaceful, everyday family routine while protecting those precious to him.

A 12-year-old Japanese American baseball superfan forced to spend his summer in Oregon with his grandfather instead of playing elite ball.

Danilo's baseball talent lands him the opportunity to train in the States and find his absentee father, who may be the key to saving the family he abandoned as they deal with the devastating effects of the U.S. military invasion of Panamá.

To go on an art club field trip, Miguel decides to ditch his responsibilities at his family’s bodega and hide the truth from his parents. When things come crashing down, he finds a friend in his newly adopted cat, Lolo.

This timeless tale gets the long-form PBS treatment and I, for one, am not complaining.

Promised safety outside of San Francisco, twelve-year-old Mei Mei travels by herself to Eureka, California where she navigates increasing violence against her community leading up to the expulsion of Chinese immigrants in 1885.

Lana Lee teams up with private detective Lydia Shepard to solve the murders of members of the secretive Eight Immortals order in Asia Village, navigating hidden connections, personal stakes and dangerous deceptions to prevent the killer from claiming their next victim.

In 1879, three women-- Lettie; her mother, Sylvia; and young teacher Philomena-- who are free from slavery but bound by poverty, access to opportunity and patriarchal social structures-- head westward on a perilous wagon journey that could cost them everything they have, including their lives.

In a series of essays, written as letters to his son, Coates confronts the notion of race in America and how it has shaped American history.

When a classmate is murdered during a traditional Blackfeet giveaway, Mara, Loren, Brody and Eli, the last people to see her alive, must take matters into their own hands and clear their names-- even though one of them may be the killer.

Clemi, a broke 26-year-old booklover, lands her dream job at a literary nonprofit only to face absent leadership, legal scrutiny and a collapsing gala, leading her to question whether the literary life is worth the chaos it brings.

In this fascinating STEAM-themed true story, the author highlights how the Apollo astronauts gave people a new way of looking at the world and inspired modern artist Alma Thomas.

Idris Elba broods while solving crimes, and broods while mourning his wife and broods while kinda falling in love with a murderer.

Pineda, a Cuban American boy, must join forces with his friends to help reunite an alien girl with her parents while their Texas town is swarming with military officers.

Holiday feasts can be contentious for vegans and their nonvegan family members. This cookbook addresses the issue head-on, uniting family and friends, vegan or not, over simply delicious, easy, healthy, seasonal food.

Maude scoops a jellyfish out of the water and embarks on more than a year of observation of the animal, accomplishing something countless other scientists were unable to do: trace the life cycle of a jellyfish and understand the creature's metamorphosis from larva to adult.

Miriam, a young Orthodox Jew, uses her detective skills to investigate and debunk the Tooth Fairy's existence, but her investigation takes an unexpected turn that leads her to question whether the Tooth Fairy might be real after all.

Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong, until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.

When Bob tells him a hair-raising story about a monster, Pete the Cat, totally scared, starts seeing the monster everywhere until he learns to overcome his fear.

Every year William's family sends a package of food, clothing and medicine to their family in Cuba, but this year they realize they have forgotten to include new shoes for Leo.

Join a childcare class during outside playtime as they discover the many colors around them!

Fifteen-year-old Nate plays soccer to meet his family's expectations, until Lucas Cawley moves in. Though an outcast, Lucas becomes Nate's basketball rival and friend, helping him discover his true passion.

Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world-- or just get to the next level-- in a videogame-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.

Piano-prodigy Isabella, 11, whose Black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

When Evander, a reclusive boy, inherits his guardian's estate-- which includes a sentient, carnivorous garden-- he must find out who killed his guardian before they come for him next.

A math teacher with cerebral palsy struggles to find confidence while dealing with his growing attraction to a talented dancer.

A seventeen-year-old uses baking to cope with her chronic illness and social anxiety but when her family forces her to join a support group she meets a cute classmate with the same juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis who understands her world. 

Every day brings a torrent of articles, videos and podcasts about health and longevity. The author, a health expert, offers simple, high-impact, evidence-based guidelines to which lifestyle changes are worth making and how to best implement them.

A collection of horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters-- both human and supernatural-- face down death and survive.

In the late 1980s, a coven of queer witches on New York's Fire Island strives to protect a young man facing a devastating tragedy.

The group's sixth studio album includes 12 new songs centering around healing, magic and the nature of performance.

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising.

A transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time.

Based on the true history of Operation Pedro Pan, a joint mission between the U.S. government and the Catholic Welfare Bureau to evacuate 14,000 children from Cuba between 1960 and 1962, this is the story of these children's lives.

"Empanadas" is cozy and warm, this is a perfect track to bump any time of day.    

Blending magic and science, a talented arcane engineer at NASA investigates two separate murder mysteries while balancing her career and raising two younger sisters.

From one sunset to the next, join a child and his family as they light a yahrzeit candle in remembrance of his grandfather and all the beautiful memories they have with him.

Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles and longing, these poems traveling from the corporeal to the cosmic, from life to death and back again.

An journalist's story of unexpected homecomings, familial hardship and fierce devotion to ancestry creates a new narrative about Hawaii, its native people and their struggle to hold on to their land and culture today.