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Melissa Isaacson was the Chicago Tribune's first woman beat writer and was assigned to cover the Chicago Bears as well as Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls over their six NBA titles. Her book, State, is an engaging and inspirational story of an unlikely group of high school girls who pull together to win their state's high school basketball championship just after the passage of Title IX, and is timed to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the team's championship title. The fantastic athletes who gave review quotes for this book range from Steve Kerr to Billie Jean King to Mike Greenberg.
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This is the perfect read for the final days of summer. Delia Owens' debut novel has romance and mystery told against the lush setting of coastal North Carolina. Kya Clark's family has deserted her one by one, forcing her to live on her own at a very young age. While fending for herself, she learns to "read" the flora and fauna of the shore even though she only spent one day in school. Ostracized by almost everyone in the nearby town, Kya, known as The Marsh Girl, eventually forms a relationship with two young men, only to learn that humans are the least reliable life form in nature.
Nickel Academy is a reform school for boys in Florida. It is segregated-white boys on the west side of the institution, black boys on the east side. While Nickel calls itself an academy, it really is a house of torture. The Nickel Boys focuses on the life of Elwood Curtis. Elwood is a black youngster raised by his grandmother. He is bright, motivated and takes the inspirational words of Martin Luther King, Jr. to heart. Unfortunately, he is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Great Believers is a two part story that alternates between Chicago in the late 1980's and early 1990's and Paris in 2015. The Chicago part focuses on Yale Tishman, a gay young man-his job, his friends and how he and his community were affected by the AIDS epidemic. The main character in the Paris sections is Fiona Marcus. Her brother was one of the first of Yale's friends to die from AIDS, and because of this, she becomes a champion for gay equality. She is in Paris searching for her daughter and granddaughter.
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz (Hardcover)