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Dedham's AANHPI Heritage Month List (YA and Adult)
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Medfield Memoirs for Adults - Hollywood Stars
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Medfield Memoirs for Adults - Hollywood Stars
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors--two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties--on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour. Now Dear girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom...
3) Dear Girl
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English
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
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2024.
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English
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"From Olympic gold medalist and two-time professional basketball MVP A'ja Wilson comes an inspirational collection on what it means to grow up as a Black girl in America. This is a book for all the girls with an apostrophe in their name. This is for all the girls who are "too loud" and "too emotional." This is for all the girls who are constantly asked, "Oh, what did you do with your hair? That's new." This is for my Black girls. In this empowering...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From Emmy Award-winning journalist Elisa Boxer comes an inspiring YA anthology of thirty-five trailblazing women from all walks of life detailing their struggles and achievements and featuring a personal message from each woman written just for this book, telling their younger selves what they wish they had known growing up"--
7) Dear girl
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Clavis Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Ages 7 years and up.
"Something is different about Grandpa. He forgets things very easily--he even forgets what simple words mean. Grandpa can remember a lot from his childhood, but his granddaughter, Cathy, knows that something is wrong. Join Cathy and her family as they learn about dementia and find things that Grandpa will hold dear, just like his dear girl, Cathy."--
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On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to propose to the woman whom he deeply loves, despite intimations from friends and family that she may not be the wisest choice. To the north on this warm and gentle day, another man in love--a Scottish Highlander--shows his own dear girl the house he will build for her in September. While...
10) Plant a kiss
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English
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One small act of love blooms into something bigger and more dazzling than Little Miss could have ever imagined.
11) Ṣaghīrātī
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al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn
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2020.
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Arabic
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
13) Chère fille
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Français
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
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English
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"Filled with loving advice and encouragement, Dear Baby, reminds little ones that the world is big, bright, and ready just for them. There's no limit to what they can be, where they can go, or what they can do! With the same tenderness as Dear Girl, and Dear Boy, Paris's charming text and Holly Hatam's stunning illustrations beautifully come together to reassure babies everywhere that no matter how far they go, they are loved"--Amazon.com.
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"A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. 'Dear Ijeawele' is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality;...
16) Dear child
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English
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"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
17) Dear Mr. You
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English
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"A wonderfully unconventional literary debut from the award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker. An extraordinary literary work, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman's life through letters Mary-Louise Parker composes to the men, real and hypothetical, who have informed the person she is today. Beginning with the grandfather she never knew, the letters range from a missive to the beloved priest from her childhood to remembrances of former...
18) Local girls
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English
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A Jewish girl's adolescent years on Long Island are described in a collection of stories. In one, her father remarries, in a second her brother drops out of university, in a third her mother dies of cancer.
19) Dear John
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English
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When Savannah Lynn Curtis comes into his life, John Tyree knows he is ready to turn over a new leaf. An angry rebel, he had enlisted in the army after high school, not knowing what else to do. Then, during a furlough, he meets Savannah, the girl of his dreams. The attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah vowing to wait for John while he finishes his tour of duty. But neither can foresee that 9/11 is about to...
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Éditions Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Français
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"« Cher bébé, bienvenue dans notre vaste et magnifique monde. » Lettre d'amour aux tout-petits, cet album illustré charmant rassemble toutes les paroles de sagesse qu'un parent pourrait souhaiter dire à son enfant. Qu'il s'agisse d'être curieux ou de faire des erreurs, d'abattre des murs ou de construire des ponts, cette lecture sincère demande aux enfants d'apprécier tout ce qu'ils sont"--
"Filled with loving advice and encouragement, Dear...
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