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| | | Read-Alikes for Sooley by John Grisham | LibraryReads
By Janet Lockhart, Rollie Welch, and Brian Renvall
Sooley by John Grisham is the top holds title of the week (4/25/21). LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting for this buzziest book. Grisham offers steps away from thrillers with a basketball novel. It follows Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon who travels with his fellow South Sudanese basketball teammates to play exhibition games in the U.S. That journey is overshadowed by the civil war raging at home. Sooley is determined to save his family, and basketball seems to be the way. |
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SPONSORED BY MCFARLAND & CO. Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis
Examines the practice of family separation at the U.S. southern border and the confinement of migrant children that, in some cases, experts describe as torture. Often, the young asylum seekers have fled brutal violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America.
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SPONSORED BY ASTRA PUBLISHING Discover I'll Be Strong For You by Nasim Marashi
This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the three young women in Tehran as they pursue wildly different dreams and discover how friendship, family, ambition, and love can hold them together in all their humanity and complexity.
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| Social Explorer | Reference eReviews
By Rob Tench Social Explorer enables users to create maps, reports, and presentations from a wide range of national and international survey data. An excellent resource, with customization tools that make data easy to create, and excellent visualization options for interpreting and presenting data. |
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| The Turnout | Featured Review
By LJ Reviews "Abbott has a top-notch ability to reveal the dark undercurrents of women’s relationships and sexuality. Her taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases, and keeps the pages turning. This is clever, chilling psychological suspense at its best." |
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American Library Association (ALA) seeks an Executive Director to lead its Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) division |
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