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Mark Allen Baker, author of Title Town USA: Boxing in Upstate New York (History Press)
Discussion & signing
 Canastota, New York, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and has produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists. From early legends like Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus to modern greats such as Mike Tyson, the sport's most famous figures fought in and around this Upstate New York town. Title fights and epic ring rivalries were battled here. In Title Town, Baker tells the story of these "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town USA."
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 South of Broad – Pat Conroy (Dial Press)
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered – and shadowed – by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.
Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.
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FICTION
 Island Beneath the Sea – Isabel Allende (Harper)
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, T’t’ is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father’s plantation, he finds it neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride – but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of T’t’, his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruelest of circumstances.
 My Name is Mary Sutter – Robin Oliveira (Viking)
Mary Sutter is a brilliant, head-strong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine - and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak - Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Her courage, will and stubbornness in the face of suffering find her able to pursue her medical career in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital. Rich with historical and full of the tragedies and challenges of wartime, My Name Is Mary Sutter is an exceptional novel, in which Oliveira has created a truly unforgettable heroine.
 Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok (Riverhead)
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life – like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition – Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
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 52 Loaves: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust – William Alexander (Algonquin)
William Alexander is determined to bake the perfect loaf of bread. He tasted it long ago and has been trying to reproduce it ever since, without success. Travel with Alexander to Morocco, to Paris, Normandy and elsewhere as he traverses dangerous back alleys and even bakes for monks. 52 Loaves explores the nature of obsession, the meditative quality of ritual, the futility of trying to re-create something perfect, our deep connection to the earth, and the mysterious instinct that makes every single person on the planet, regardless of culture or society, respond to the aroma of baking bread.
 Passages in Caregiving – Gail Sheehy (William Morrow)
No one expects it, but at some time or another, just about everyone has been - or will be – responsible for giving sustained care to someone close to them. Gail Sheehy takes you by the hand and shows you that you will get through this, and you will do the right things. She identifies eight crucial stages of caregiving and offers insight for successfully navigating each one. Passages in Caregiving is sure to help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.
 Birdology – Sy Montgomery (Free Press)
Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she's a rock star. From a cockatoo whose dance video went viral on YouTube and who's now teaching schoolchildren how to dance, to baby hummingbirds who hatched from eggs the size of navy beans, you’ll thoroughly enjoy Montgomery’s adventures with seven birds – wild, tame, exotic, and common.
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TEEN LIT
 The Dreamer – Pam Munoz Ryan, illust. by Peter Sis (Scholastic)
Neftali prevails against a father’s cruelty and his own crippling shyness to become one of the most widely read poets in the world, Pablo Neruda. Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Munoz Ryan and Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination.
 Goth Girl Rising - Barry Lyga (Harcourt)
In Goth Girl Rising, Kyra is back! After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she's about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time. Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who's ever appreciated her for who she really is. But then she sees him. Fanboy. Transcended from everything he was into someone she barely recognizes. And the anger and memories come rushing back.
 Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins (Hyperion)
Sophie is a witch who has a little problem with using her magic conspicuously, and each time she does, she’s forced to move. She’s currently working on State #19 when she casts a love spell that goes terribly wrong. This is the last straw; she’s sentenced to Hecate Hall, a juvee version of Hogwarts. Between her impossible crush on a gorgeous warlock and the mysterious attacks on other students, Sophie’s adventures at her new school will keep you captivated.
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KIDS CORNER
 City Dog, Country Frog – Mo Willems, illust. Jon J. Muth (Hyperion)
If there is such a thing as a perfect picture book, this is it. The exquisitely simple text (a departure from Willems’s customary inspired wackiness) tells the story of a city dog reveling in the joys of country life and his friendship with a local frog. The story is amplified and enriched by Muth’s stunning, evocative watercolors. Touches of sadness and ambiguity add a depth unusual in picture books. Please: take a few minutes to savor this book.
 The Junkyard Wonders – Patricia Polacco (Philomel)
Polacco’s Thank You, Mr. Falker told the autobiographical story of a child with dyslexia and the wonderful teacher who got her the help she needed. This new book tells the next chapter in her story – being placed in a class of kids with special needs and challenges, a class other students label “The Junkyard.” Another exceptional teacher inspires the kids, and another exceptional book will inspire countless more teachers and students.
 The Firehouse Light – Janet Nolan (Tricycle Press)
This fascinating book tells the true story of a four-watt lightbulb that’s been burning in a Livermore, CA, firehouse nonstop since 1901. It’s an amazing story, and Nolan charts the changes in the town and the lives of its people over the century-plus the bulb has been burning. If you doubt her veracity, an afterword gives you a Web site to visit; you’ll see the bulb in action via its webcam!
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