March 22, 2017

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"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself." 

--Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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Magazines

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Books

The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas

Call Number:  FIC Thomas
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.  -- Goodreads

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Mooncop (2016) by Tom Gauld

Call Number: GRA Gauld
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"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. 
-- Goodreads

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Every Day  (2012) by  David Levithan
 
Call Number:  FIC Levithan
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Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. "A" has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

It's all fine until the morning that "A" wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which "A" has been living no longer apply. Because finally "A" has found someone he wants to be with-day in, day out, day after day. --
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