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  • Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

    Title:

    Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

    Author:

    Various Authors

    Genres:

    Folk Tales, Irish Mythology

    Summary (from publisher):

    The tales collected for Irish Fairy and Folk Tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back much further, to a time when they were part of a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling and had yet to be committed to the printed page. These are stories that passed down through the ages virtually unaltered in their telling. To those who told and listened to them, they expressed something fundamental about Irish culture and the Irish way of life. 

    Tea/Coffee:

    Niks Irish Tea Collection

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  • The Mindy Kim Food and Fun Collection

    Title:

    The Mindy Kim Food and Fun Collection

    Author:

    Lyla Lee and Dung Ho

    Genres:

    Korean American Fiction, Kids Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    Mindy Kim just wants three things:
    1. A puppy!
    2. To fit in at her new school
    3. For her dad to be happy again

    However, getting all three of the things on her list is a lot trickier than she thought it would be. Between classmates making fun of her seaweed snacks and celebrating the Lunar New Year without her mom, Mindy is faced with more challenges than she bargained for. With the help of her family and friends, Mindy can find the courage make her goals a reality, and even pursue new ideas like running for class president, visiting Korea, a pizza eating competition, and learning to swim—not to mention welcoming a new person into her family!

    Tea/Coffee:

    Upton Tea Imports, Peach Tea with Fruit Pieces

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  • Tikki Tikki Tembo

    Title:

    Tikki Tikki Tembo

    Author:

    Arlene Mosel

    Genres:

    Kids Fiction, Fairy Tales, Myths, Asian Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo is the full name of the firstborn son in the Chinese family of this story. As the firstborn’s, his name must be spoken completely and reverently. This old folktale of what happens when the boy falls into a well and his younger brother attempts to get help is nicely retold and should make excellent read-aloud material….Bright, active, and delightfully expressive.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Decaffeinated Lemon Black Tea

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  • Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

    Title:

    Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty

    Author:

    Tom Santopietro

    Genres:

    Biography

    Summary (from publisher):

    Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century.
    Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating and supplemented with incisive fashion commentary from award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks, Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertainty is a one-of-a-kind exploration of Audrey’s glamorous image and remarkable life. Always leading with her heart, Hepburn is shown here fully captured in all her complexity: an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman whose style and activism changed the world.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Twinings Heart Warming

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  • Things Fall Apart

    Title:

    Things Fall Apart

    Author:

    Chinua Achebe

    Genres:

    African Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Jebena Blend coffee

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  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    Title:

    The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    Author:

    Emily M. Danforth

    Genres:

    LGBTQ+ Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Blueberry Breakfast tea

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  • The Shadow King

    Title:

    The Shadow King

    Author:

    Maaza Mengiste

    Genres:

    African Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record. 

    Tea/Coffee:

    Gobena Coffee

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  • Difficult Women

    Title:

    Difficult Women

    Author:

    Roxane Gay

    Genres:

    LGBTQ+ Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. 

    Tea/Coffee:

    Whiskey Coffee

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  • The Vagina Monologues

    Title:

    The Vagina Monologues

    Author:

    Eve Ensler

    Genres:

    General Literature

    Summary (from publisher):

    …explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, vaginal care, menstrual periods, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Dong Quai tea

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  • Clap When You Land

    Title:

    Clap When You Land

    Author:

    Elizabeth Acevedo

    Genres:

    Teen Fiction

    Summary (from publisher):

    In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.

    Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.

    And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.

    Tea/Coffee:

    Red Honey Coffee

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