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you are an animal

The Tusks of Extinction

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Library Professional Development

Effective Difficult Conversations

The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries

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2024 Favorites

A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World

Moon Soul

Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel

Hiroshima

Four Squares

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To Read 2024

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Blood of Assassins

A Desert Torn Asunder

The Desert of Souls

Samurai Wisdom Stories: Tales from the Golden Age of Bushido

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Romance

A Tall, Dark Cowboy Christmas

Cowboy Christmas Redemption

The Last Christmas Cowboy

The Devil You Know

Dance with the Devil

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True Crime

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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Animals

Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-Tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

All the Horses of Iceland

Making rounds with Oscar

Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

Owls of the Eastern Ice

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Cambodia

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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4 books

Earth Science

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver

Isaac's Storm

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

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Arc

Little Gods

The Shop Before Life

This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

The Book of Koli

Fifty Words for Rain

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10 books

Textbooks

The Organization of Information

Reference and Information Services: An Introduction

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The portable MLIS

Library and Information Center Management

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

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4 books

Video Games

The Legend Of Final Fantasy VII

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

You Have Died of Dysentery: The creation of The Oregon Trail - the iconic educational game of the 1980s

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Material Ultimania

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9 books

Medical

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When We Do Harm

Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

War Doctor

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Counting Backwards

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10 books

Short Stories

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

First Person Singular: Stories

All the Horses of Iceland

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

White Cat, Black Dog

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7 books

2023 Favorites

All Quiet on the Western Front

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone

Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Elder Race

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15 books

2022 Favorites

Crying in H Mart

After Dark

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

How High We Go in the Dark

Black Sun

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8 books

North Korea

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea

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13 books

Books About Books

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

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81 books

Manga And Comics

Ping Pong Omnibus

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Komi Can’t Communicate

The Magic Fish

Batman R.I.P. Unwrapped

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2 books

To Reread

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

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11 books

Science

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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How to Handle a Crowd

Letters from an Astrophysicist

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When We Do Harm

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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38 books

History

Legends of the Samurai

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Japan

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

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4 books

2017 Favorites

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

The Great Passage

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Still Life

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12 books

Random Library Finds

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

What She Ate

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

The one-in-a-million boy

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7 books

Western

Journal of the Gun Years

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Epitaph

True Grit

The Revenant

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