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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barbara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Barbara DaCosta
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August 2008
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Nighttime Ninja
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2012
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Mighty Moby
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Resort to Murder
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Minnesota Not So Nice: Eighteen Tales Of Bad Behavior
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Nighttime Ninja
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Barbara’s Recent Updates
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Barbara DaCosta
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This is the most engaging, readable translations of Pinocchio that I've read. I could hardly put it down. The translators John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna take great care to preserve Collodi's nuances and style. Endnotes explain historical, language, an ...more |
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| “In Barbara DaCosta’s story, friendship and forgiveness emerge from the shadows to shine as warmly as Ed Young’s art. I found myself deeply touched by this tender, honest story, and mesmerized by the jaggedly beautiful, moody illustrations. This book ...more | |
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Barbara DaCosta
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The Memoir Engineering System: Make Your First Draft Your Final Draft
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| Wendy Dale's Memoir Engineering System strikes a nice balance between analytical and the deeply experiential, personal and typically emotion-laden genre of memoir. Full of practical information, this book will help novice and experienced writers alik ...more | |
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| A memoir about so many things—the elephants and his relationship to them are central to the story, but the book is also about his love for Africa and the Zulu people, and for nature. Written like a thriller, it is hard to put down. | |
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| Ezra is grappling with middle-school and is tormented by a bully. As well, Ezra is torn between worlds: life with his father in urban Minneapolis during the school year, and summers on the reservation with extended family. A crisis sends him even fur ...more | |
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| Ed Young's Pinocchio art is fascinating. He illustrated my Nighttime Ninja 16 years later, and I can see the threads of connection between the two. Both unique, but the ways in which he played with the paper and other materials he used, and the maste ...more | |
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