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She's beautiful when she's angry
Amy
Documenting hate : Charlottesville & New American Nazis
I Am Big Bird.
Anita : Speaking Truth to Power.
Obit.

Documentaries to Check Out on Kanopy

Bond
The uninhabitable earth : life after warming
The end of ice : bearing witness and finding meaning in the path of climate disruption
Losing Earth : a recent history
The fate of food : what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world
Here : poems for the planet
On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal

Climate change

Candice
Bloody Genius.
A history of the world in seven cheap things : a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet
Augustown
The far away brothers : two young migrants and the making of an American life
A house on stilts : mothering in the age of opioid addiction, a memoir
After the flood : a novel

Iowa City Book Festival

Becky
El deafo
When you reach me
The giver
Midnight without a moon
The Watsons go to Birmingham-- 1963
The view from Saturday

My Favorite Middle-Grade Chapter Books Of All Time

Anne W
Grandma's purse
Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa
How to babysit a grandpa
Mango, Abuela, and me
Last stop on Market Street
I love my Glam-ma!

Picture Books that Celebrate Grandparents

Angie
Where the crawdads sing
Becoming
Educated : a memoir
The Tattooist of Auschwitz : a novel
An American marriage
Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch

Most Popular Books from the 2019 Adult Summer Reading Program

Beth
Keto cooking with your Instant Pot : recipes for fast and flavorful Ketogenic meals
The nutrient-dense kitchen : 125 autoimmune paleo recipes for deep healing and vibrant health
Cancer-free with food : a step-by-step plan with 100+ recipes to fight disease, nourish your body & restore your health
Meals that heal : 100+ everyday anti-inflammatory recipes in 30 minutes or less : gut health, brain health, cancer prevention, heart health
Made whole : more than 145 anti-inflammatory keto-paleo recipes to nourish you from the inside out
Gluten-free baking at home : 96 never-fail, totally delicious recipes for breads, cakes, cookies, and more

Cookbooks for special diets

Candice
Spacecraft : 100 iconic rockets, shuttles, and satellites that put us into space
Apollo to the moon : a history in 50 objects
Apollo's legacy : perspectives on the Moon landings
Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11
How to live in space : everything you need to know for the not-so-distant future
Spaceflight : the complete story, from Sputnik to Curiosity

New Space Exploration Books

Beth
Dear Martin
The end of our story
The Forgetting
The hate u give
Long way down
The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women

Iowa High School Book Award 2019-2020 Nominees

Brian
Backfield boys
Lily and Dunkin
Lumberjanes
One of us is lying
Refugee
Saving Red

Iowa Teen Award 2019-2020 Nominees

Brian
Dragon night
Bedtime for Yeti
Night animals
The moon inside
My new big kid bed
The darkest dark

Books to Help Kids Who Are Scared of the Dark

Angie
In the dream house : a memoir
How we fight for our lives : a memoir
Gentleman Jack
We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir
Fairest : a memoir
Save yourself

Celebrate Pride: Exploring identity through memoir and biography

Melody
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