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MRLS Newsletter — February 2024
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How to catch a Loveosaurus
by Alice Walstead
It's prehistoric pandemonium as the Catch Club Kids search for an escaped dinosaur that is spreading love and kindness, in this sweet story that combines adventure with STEAM concepts. Illustrations.
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Bad Kitty does not like Valentine's Day
by Nick Bruel
With the help of Puppy's paw-some surprise, Kitty realizes that Valentine's Day isn't so bad after all. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Little Blue Truck's valentine
by Alice Schertle
Delivering Valentine's Day cards to his farm animal friends, a diligent Little Blue Truck wonders if he will receive any cards of his own, in a holiday entry in the best-selling series that incorporates foil accents and an oversized gatefold spread. 150,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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The Mystery of the Love List
by Sarah Glenn Marsh
While creating a love list--a list of all the things that take up room in her heart--for school, Pippa discovers she has a secret admirer and sets out to find the identity of the person she hopes will be her new friend.
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Niche Academy Niche Academy is an online learning platform that offers video tutorials on: - Computer & Internet Basics
- Library Resources (databases, ebooks, etc.)
- Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
- Google Products (Gmail, Google Drive, etc.)
- Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, etc.)
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Universal Class Universal Class offers online continuing education courses that you can take at your own pace! Subjects offered include: - Business
- Computer training
- General education
- Health and medicine
- Social work
- Special education
- Web development
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Celebrate Black History Month
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A Black women's history of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry
Centering around Black women's stories, two award-winning historians offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the US to African American women of today. Original.
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Brown girl dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
Using the life stories of five major American intellectuals, including Thomas Jefferson and W.E.B. Du Bois, an award-winning historian chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history and offers the tools for exposing racist thinking, giving us reason to hope.
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Black women taught us : an intimate history of Black feminism
by Jenn M. Jackson
This collection of eleven original essays from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to Audre Lorde explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders and repositions their intellectual and political work at the center of today's liberation movements.
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We must not think of ourselves : a novel
by Lauren Grodstein
In 1940, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, Adam Paskow joins a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls, which leads to unexpected love, but when he discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice.
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The spy coast
by Tess Gerritsen
Retired CIA operative Maggie Bird, when a body turns up in her driveway, turns to a“Martini Club” of former spies who have useful skills they're eager to use again, but their efforts are complicated by the town's acting police chief as Maggie tries to save the life she's built. (suspense).
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The frozen river : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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