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SEASONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

AUGUST 2023

AUGUST 19 - WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
We Should All Be Feminists
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

AUGUST 19 - WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY

To The Bright Edge of the World
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Second Sight
Evidence of Things Unseen
Pictures of Hollis Woods

AUGUST 21 - NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZEN DAY

Killers of a Certain Age
The Thursday Murder Club
The Story of Arthur Truluv
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
A Man Called Ove
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Water for Elephants
Invisible
The Giver
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

AUGUST 24 - NATIONAL MARYLAND DAY

Well Met
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Breathing Lessons
Patriot Games
The Accidental Tourist
Jacob Have I Loved
Kindred
The Great Gilly Hopkins