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Karen Van Drie 🟧 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Global librarian. Exec Director @GlobalLitin. She/her. #IntlYALitMonth #WorldKidLitMonth #GLLI #Libraries #AntiRacist #Degrowth πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ώ πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬ πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡· πŸ‡²πŸ‡²

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Book Cover for: We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood, Jen Rubin

We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood

Jen Rubin
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

'We Are Staying': New Book Explores Desegregation Of NoVA Libraries A new book, "Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries," shows how public libraries in the region maintained exclusionary policies. https://t.co/GKIcmjBSJn #Segregation #Desegregation #CivilRights

Paperback, 2018

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, Huynh Quang Nhuong

The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam

Huynh Quang Nhuong
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

@GlobalLitin @Alice_Banks_ @mismaildonmez @abdullah71 @peshutwilliam @YishauOlukorede @VesnainLondon @Dbjfredriksson @marissa_b_davis @MarewadAtul @TheJoziBookClub Reading vintage #IntlYALit: The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, by Huynh Quang Nhuong, a book full of outdoor adventures, crocodiles, & can-do. His second middle grade read is below in the next tweet.πŸ‘‡ #VietnameseYALit #MGReads #YALit https://t.co/lvm6M3mWOp

Hardcover, 1986

$21.80$10.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
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She is a wonderful journalist of two wonderful books. Once you read her book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, you can't un-see it. The USA has a caste system. #Caste is now available in paperback. https://t.co/7iXxHlw452 #Racism #AntiRacism #CasteSystems

Paperback, 2023

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Forever..., Judy Blume

Forever...

Judy Blume
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Author Judy Blume is finally ready to tell her own story in new documentary, Judy Blume Forever https://t.co/8zIf9VhNmR #JudyBlume #MGReads #Bestsellers

Paperback, 2024

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats

The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Barack Obama's favorite childhood book! I guessed the title would be The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats. https://t.co/LZMawzjwK4

Hardcover, 1976

$23.80$11.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, Jason Hickel

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Jason Hickel
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Jason Hickle says our economy is a 'death cult.' I loved reading his book Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World last year because it offers a way out from certain death for our species from our endless obsession with growth. Listen (15 minutes): https://t.co/9vhwOBoBoo

Paperback, 2021

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete: A Halloween Lift-The-Flap Book for Kids, James Dean

Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete: A Halloween Lift-The-Flap Book for Kids

James Dean
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses, by Kimberly & James Dean urges young minds to find the good in every day. It's so fun to read aloud & the YouTube animated version is an extra special read aloud! https://t.co/FA9wQhQJ7M #Gratitude #KidLit

Paperback, 2017

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses, James Dean

Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses

James Dean
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses, by Kimberly & James Dean urges young minds to find the good in every day. It's so fun to read aloud & the YouTube animated version is an extra special read aloud! https://t.co/FA9wQhQJ7M #Gratitude #KidLit

Hardcover, 2013

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World, Allan Drummond

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World

Allan Drummond
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World, by Allan Drummond. If you need a vision of how a community could come together to solve our energy transition, let Allan Drummond's book be your guide. Ages K-adulthood. #GlobalClimateStrike, wk 171🧡 https://t.co/8bH2TNzbQR

Paperback, 2015

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson
Karen Van Drie 🟧Karen Van Drie 🟧

I'm starting Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry For The Future: A Novel today for @PaulEDawson's Climate Solutions Book Club. I've already been told the first chapter is a yowsa. 20 hours 42 minutes on audio, I best get started immediately. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange https://t.co/TjTrFuEMCo

Paperback, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book