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Natalie Portman's Fables by Natalie PortmanFrom realizing that there is no "right" way to live to respecting our planet and learning what really makes someone a winner, the messages at the heart of Natalie Portman's Fables are modern takes on timeless life lessons. Told with a playful, kid-friendly voice and perfectly paired with Janna Mattia's charming artwork, Portman's insightful retellings of classic tales are ideal for reading aloud.
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Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliA family in crisis heads for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news about the thousands of children stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands. But as the family drives farther west, we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval N. HarariA narrative history of humanity's creation and evolution explores how biology and history have defined understandings of what it means to be human, detailing the role of modern cognition in shaping the ecosystem, civilizations and more.
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Weather: A Novel by Jenny OffillLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. Then her old mentor, a famous podcaster, asks Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience—but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks... And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in—funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
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