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Fall Reading List

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

Centered around the twists and turns of a Mississippi family, 13-year old Jojo navigates life with his younger sister, through his mother’s drug abuse, his father’s incarceration, and a harrowing journey through the South. Looking Ahead: Reread A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle before it hits theaters March 2018!

Oct 65
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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

I went on buying trips to New York for the fancy ladies wear shop run by one aunt (they used to model the dresses at high end shops), learned the uniform business from another aunt, and was taught the basics of the Borscht Belt hospitality business by a great cousin. After dinner, Dad went off to Schul with his brothers.