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Children's & YANovember 2019Claire Malone Changes the World
by Nadia L. King / Alisa Knatko
Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg has captured the world’s attention as she campaigns to raise awareness of climate change and calls world leaders to account. All children can follow Greta’s lead. Claire Malone is the hero of Claire Malone Changes the World, a feisty character with boundless energy to change her world for the better. Armed with her typewriter and the determination to make a difference, Claire is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary desire to change things for the better. Writing letter after letter, Claire advocates for change. One day she notices that her local park needs upgrading and she commits wholeheartedly to the cause. This an empowering and inspiring picture book for young children but especially for girls. You will love the journey of Claire, a strong and ambitious girl, so much that you will want to read this book over and over again.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2021Where the Wind Is
by Lyubko Deresh
Max Tarnavskii is a young writer once recognized by the young audience for his debut novel about young counterculture but then scathingly criticized for his third novel "Where the Wind Is", — a philosophical parable about a hermit living in a lighthouse by the sea. Having fallen off the readers’ radar, he suffers through his inability to create any further. It’s the second half of the 2010s, Kyiv. On the New Year’s Eve Max gets an offer from Alisa, a first-year student, to go on a tour with a young rock band as a gonzo journalist to revive his counterculture icon status. Max balks at first, but an unexpected brawl on Facebook in which Max is reminded about his passivity during the Maidan and his uncertain ideological views in the days of the ATO and the war, and a critical review of Max’s new novel outline from his literary agent urge Tarnavskii to accept the offer after all. The rock band he joins for a tour from Western to Eastern Ukraine has turned up to be an inept group trip planner, so the protagonist has to take up the role of a leader capable of saving the band from a total fiasco. Traveling with the teenage freshmen becomes the young writer’s road to adulthood, forgiveness, and an attempt to forgive his own mistakes of youth in particular. Just to earn his living, Max agrees to perform with the rockers while on tour, flies in the face of his creative fears, and is forced to redefine himself as a writer once again. He faces the dangers of concert disruptions, the band split up, public disapproval, and threats of physical violence. Ability to write on the road becomes his only way to save and revive his own self, stand up to his hidden weaknesses, reconsider his role in a society that undergoes a war. A post-tour trip with Alisa to her grandmother who lives in a village on the liberated from the occupation territories becomes Tarnavskii’s hope for a renewal. On this trip Max gets a chance to full recovery, because in Tarnavskii’s mind these are the parts, where he will find the sand bar with the lighthouse where the hermit from his novel "Where the Wind Is" lives.
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March 2009Mütter, Männer und andere Katastrophen
Eine turbulente Komödie
by Coburn, Jennifer / Übersetzt von Imgrund, Barbara
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September 2009Ehemann günstig abzugeben!
Eine turbulente Komödie
by Coburn, Jennifer / Übersetzt von Imgrund, Barbara
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September 2019So duftet Glück
Natürlich durchs Leben mit ätherischen Ölen
by Keller, Vivien; Merbele, Julia; Leube, Alisa
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1979Die selbstsichere Frau
Anleitung zur Selbstbehauptung
by Bloom, Lynn Z; Coburn, Karen; Pearlman, Joan
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Picture books, activity books & early learning materialJanuary 2018Hello, Door
by Alastair Heim, Alisa Coburn
In this ode to the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, kids can follow a thieving fox as he greets everything he sees in a home that isn't his. He collects fine art and jewelry, practices his golf swing, and devours a tasty snack along the way. But just when he thinks he's in the clear to leave with all the goods, the owners of the house – a mama bear, papa bear, and baby bear – come home. They chase him through the house, and when the mama bear catches him, she promptly throws him out. But she throws him so far that he ends up in a much nicer neighbourhood – in front of a mansion, in fact – where he can begin his mischievous adventure again!
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January 2020A Prayer and a Pickaxe
A Legend about Saint Clement of Rome
by Written by Pamela Love; illustrated by Maggie Coburn
Retold here by Pamela Love, award-winning author of Brigid and the Butter, A Staircase for the Sisters, and The Sword and the Cape, this legend teaches children—especially boys—about faith, bravery, self-sacrifice, and perseverance. Clement’s story is filled with miracles, the power of prayer, and faith that prayers will be answered. It provides children with an example of being in a difficult situation and not losing hope, of reaching out through their own pain to help others.
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My White
by Ksenia Burzhskaya
A sensational and highly anticipated novel by Ksenia Burzhskaya, a Russian renowned journalist, writer, and co-host of the YouTube channel White Noise, together with the famous Russian writer, Tatyana Tolstaya. Ksenia is also a speechwriter for Alisa (a voice assistant and Yandex’s alternative to Alexa) and the winner of the literary competition My First Pain (2008) organized by another great Russian author, Ludmila Ulitskaya. My White is set in the modern day. Throughout the book, the main character, sixteen-year-old girl Jane (Zhenya) is preparing for a New Year school performance. Zhenya was brought up by her two moms, artist Alexandra and doctor Vera. But despite that, she faces the same problems every other teenager does: she studies, meets up with friends, falls for a boy, and tries her best to get over an unrequited love and her parents’ divorce. Zhenya’s ultimate goal and destination in the novel, the concert, has two purposes: to gather her mothers and hopefully make them change their mind about the divorce, and to give her a chance to confess to Lyonya, head of their music club and the guy she is secretly in love with. The novel has two central story lines. The first is a constant rehearsal, anticipation and premonition, that may be more important than the event itself. The second is memories, regrets, attempts to find your own way and answer the eternal questions: what is love? can it last forever? why do we love at all?
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionApril 2014A Rough Guide to Afghan Youth Politics
by Gran Hewad, Casey Garret Johnson
This report builds on several initiatives by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to explore how a growing youth population and an increasing number of young political leaders are reshaping Afghan politics. Drawing on 160 interviews with politically active youth, university students, and young journalists in seven of Afghanistan’s thirty-four provinces—Kabul, Kandahar, Khost, Herat, Balkh, Bamiyan, and Nangarhar—from June to November 2013, this report complements a focused ethnographic study by Anna Larson and Noah Coburn of three communities in and around Kabul city published by USIP in January 2014.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionApril 2013
Informal Justice and the International Community in Afghanistan
by Noah Coburn
Every serious attempt to analyze the ongoing instability in Afghanistan recognizes the lack of justice in the country as a motivator of grievance and conflict. Despite millions of donor dollars spent on building the state judicial sector in Afghanistan since 2001, access to fair, equitable forums for justice in the country remains extremely poor, and few Afghans have confidence in the state’s ability to deliver justice. As the international community begins transitioning out of Afghanistan, international groups have begun to consider more deeply the informal mechanisms through which a majority of conflicts in Afghanistan are resolved. This report argues that many of these internationally sponsored programs have done as much harm as good or have simply wasted funds that have gone primarily to Afghan government officials and international contractors. In the worst cases, these programs have undermined the provision of justice. Given that Afghanistan’s formal justice mechanisms are seen to be expensive, corrupt, and slow, and that informal justice mechanisms are preferred by local communities, the international community must think more critically about the role of internationally sponsored programs and justice at the local level.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionAugust 2011
The Politics of Dispute Resolution and Continued Instability in Afghanistan
by Noah Coburn,
This report argues that the assumed formal–informal dichotomy between justice systems in Afghanistan misdescribes the way in which most cases in the country are resolved. In fact, analysis in late 2010 of data from ongoing research and pilot projects sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace shows that most disputes have been handled by a combination of the two justice systems, with actors in each assuming different roles depending on the location and context of the dispute as well as on the parties involved, which has serious implications for many of the international programs recently created to engage the informal sector.1 Furthermore, this report suggests that the greatest barrier to local dispute resolution in Afghanistan is the current lack of security and political stability, which has made it more difficult for those involved in either formal or informal dispute-resolution systems to interact effectively.
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ROGUE: UNTOUCHED
A MARVEL HEROINES NOVEL
by Alisa Kwitney
Rogue’s frightening new mutant powers keep her at arms-lengthfrom the world, but two strangers offer a chance tochange her life forever, in this exhilarating Marvel Super Heroadventure Young Rogue’s life is a mess: she lives alone in an abandoned cabin, worksa terrible diner job and hides from everyone. The powers she has startedto develop are terrifying her. When your first kiss almost kills the guy, it’shard to trust anyone – even yourself. Then two people arrive in town whocould change her life, and she finally gets a choice: follow a mysteriousbillionaire who says she’s scouting for gifted interns, or the handsomecard shark with eerie red eyes. Except they’re not the only ones watchingher… Rogue will have to trust in herself and accept the powers she’s tryingto suppress to decide her own fate – before someone else does.
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March 2020My Name is Konisola
by Alisa Siegel
In a land of strangers, a new family can be found. On a freezing cold winter night, nine-year-old Konisola and her mother step off a plane in North America. Their home in Nigeria is no longer safe for them, and they are taking the biggest chance of their lives to travel across the world in search of refuge. Soon after they land, disaster strikes, Konisola’s mother falls ill and they become separated. Konisola is forced to fend for herself in a strange country, with no family and no friends. Then she meets a remarkable nurse and things begin to change for the better. Will she be allowed to stay in Canada as a refugee, or will she be sent back across the ocean? This is a story of bravery and determination, of loss, and of generosity and good will that paved the way for a new family. Inspired by a true story.
