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MRLS Newsletter — March 2023
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St. Patrick's Day
by Gail Gibbons - Picture Book
Retells the life of St. Patrick, including six of the legends about the Irish saint, and offers facts about how St. Patrick's Day is celebrated today.
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How to Catch a Leprechaun
by Adam Wallace - Picture Book
Kids are invited to start a St. Patrick's Day tradition with this fun-filled, lively book in verse that offers advice on how to craft the perfect trap to catch a leprechaun.
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The Great Leprechaun Chase
by James Dean - Picture Book
When Pete the Cat opens a leprechaun catching business on St. Patrick's Day, his efforts are complicated by Clover, a leprechaun who's full of tricks.
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Leprechaun in Late Winter
by Mary Pope Osborne - Juvenile Fiction
Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.
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Legends & Lore: Ireland's Folk Tales
by Michael Scott - Juvenile Fiction
The author combines mythology and magic in a high-action collection inspired by nine Irish legends, from a competition to become King of the Leprechauns to a trick designed to fool the Queen of the Fairies.
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She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World
by Chelsea Clinton - Juvenile Nonfiction
Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. With vivid, compelling art, this book shows readers that no matter what obstacles may be in their paths, they shouldn't give up on their dreams. Persistence is power.
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Science Superstars: 30 Brilliant Women Who Changed the World
by Jennifer Calvert - Juvenile Nonfiction
Women scientists are not new, but they haven't always gotten credit for being so stellar. This book introduces 30 remarkable women whose passion and dedication to all things science led to groundbreaking discoveries, vital medicine, essential technology, and cutting-edge inventions that changed the world.
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Women's Suffrage
by Duchess Harris - Juvenile Nonfiction
Discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the United States, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well.
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
by Pamela D. Toler - Adult Nonfiction
Women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities.
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
by Danielle Dreilinger - Adult Nonfiction
Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a maligned subject to its rightful importance.
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Secretly Yours
by Tessa Bailey - Adult Romance
Returning home to his family's winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But there’s something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.
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Stone Blind
by Natalie Haynes - Adult Fiction
Attacked by Poseidon in Athene's temple, Medusa, the most beautiful of the Gorgon sisters, is punished and transformed into a monster whose gaze will turn any living creature to stone, forcing her into a life of solitude until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest.
Stone Blind brings empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman—injured by a powerful man—is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Delving into the origins of this mythic tale, Haynes revitalizes and reconstructs Medusa’s story with her passion and fierce wit, offering a timely retelling of this classic myth that speaks to us today.
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The House of Eve
by Sadeqa Johnson - Adult Fiction
1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William’s elite, wealthy family and grant her the life she’s been searching for.
With their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives..
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