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2021 Finalist for Young Adult Fiction
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The Road Home
by Mari Carlson
In the evocative novel "The Road Home", a traumatized woman starts the long process of belonging. Set in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Laura Tonwe’s rich novel "The Road Home" is a story about healing. After college, Stephanie,...
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Fooled by the Winners
This digestible, compelling social science text reexamines the stories that people have been told by and about society’s winners. Former Stanford business lecturer David Lockwood parses a variety of survivor bias examples in his social...
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Good Psych, Bad Psych
by Aleena Ortiz
"Good Psych, Bad Psych" warns prospective patients to be critical of who is providing their care. Joshua Thomas dispels misconceptions about the Australian health industry in "Good Psych, Bad Psych", a self-help book concerned with the...
2020 Finalist for Religious
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Beloved Comrades
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Bixby Timmons and the Dragonthorp Riddle
A feisty teenager tries to solve the biggest puzzle of her life in order to bring a billionaire tech genius home in Dwight D. Karkan’s engaging novel Bixby Timmons and the Dragonthorp Riddle. When Bixby and her family move so her...
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The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory
by Mari Carlson
"The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory" is a legacy-driven, period biography of an Irish family. Julia Turner’s family biography, "The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory", covers professors, ministers, abusers, doctors, soldiers, and charmers...
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Shadowshine
by Carol Booton
"Shadowshine" is a rollicking adventure in which a poetic possum undertakes a quest for self-knowledge in his fantastical world of talking animals. In Johnny Armstrong’s eccentric novel "Shadowshine", a talking possum adventures in a...