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• The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

  a Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street

  Tidwell, Mike,

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  The devastation happening on Willow Avenue is representative of similar changes happening throughout North America and the rest of the world. But it’s never too late to make meaningful changes. Mike Tidwell started writing this book in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving Five

  a Memoir of Hope

  Nguyen, Amanda, 1991-

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  Amanda's story, detailing the aftermath of a sexual assault and the brave pursuit of passing a law that will help survivors, is told by different versions of herself at different ages to show what happens when you push through the pain and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holy Ground

  on Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope

  Flowers, Catherine Coleman,

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  This book, really a collection of essays, explores the often overlooked and underserved impact that climate change has on Black rural communities from someone who grew up in Alabama. Catherine Coleman Flower's mother was an activist who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

  Weisman, Alan

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  An engineer, Azzam is advised by friends to leave Iraq, but he asks "Who will protect Basra for my son's generation?" Basra is the third largest city in Iraq and part of what was once called The Fertile Crescent and the "cradle of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hope

  the Autobiography

  Francis, Pope, 1936-

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  Even many who are not Catholic, or even Christian, have a fondness for Pope Francis mostly because of his insistence on hope for our shared future. "Hope is the virtue of a heart that doesn't close itself in the dark, doesn't stop at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ocean Speaks

  a Photographic Journey of Discovery and Hope

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  This is a stunning book with of photographs and stories from ocean experts and protectors around the globe. Hopefully, this book can bring even more attention to the plight of oceans and its millions of sea creatures so that the earth will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let's Make Things Better

  a Holocaust Survivor's Message of Hope and Celebration of Life

  Lev, Gidon, 1935-

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  Gidon writes as if he is sitting across the table. Some of the events he shares are heartbreaking , but his hope is contagious and uplifting.

• One Year in Uvalde

  a Story of Hope and Resilience

  Quiñones, John,

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  Uvalde, Texas was the location of a mass school shooting in 2022 at an elementary school, but this is not a story of the tragedy. This is the story of the community. An ABC News team got permission to stay for a year to tell the story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chasing Hope

  a Reporter's Life

  Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-

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  Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, tells his story of chasing (and often finding) hope - even in war zones. His argument for finding hope in difficult places is persuasive and cogent and his stories about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sky Was Falling

  a Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

  Griggs, Cornelia,

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  This is the emotional story of a young pediatric surgeon and mother on the front lines at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic at a NYC hospital. It's a story of bravery and hope of our essential workers, and all of us. “Bravery is feeling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Piano Player of Budapest

  a True Story of Hope, Survival, and Music

  De Bastion, Roxanne,

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  By piecing together her grandfather's cassette recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne tells her grandfather's story of music and hope through his suffering in the concentration camps in WWII to his ultimate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Glimmer

  a Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

  Murphy, Kimberly Shannon,

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  A heroic and hopeful story of stolen innocence, pain, courage, and survival, Glimmer is an emotional roadmap for others who have suffered abuse and childhood trauma, offering them hope, healing, and inspiration.

• Heart to Heart

  a Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet

  Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

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  The Dalai Lama invites us to meditate with him on the health of the planet, which he believes can be a hopeful journey out of our current perilous path, if people accept his message of compassion and responsibility. He shares his belief…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World Central Kitchen Cookbook

  Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope

  Andrés, José, 1969-

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  This is not just a cookbook. World Central Kitchen is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that has been providing food relief since it was founded in 2010. Each section represents a part of the WCK mission statement: EMPATHY,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brighter by the Day

  Waking Up to New Hopes and Dreams

  Roberts, Robin, 1960-

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  The Good Morning America anchor, Robin Roberts, offers the life's lessons she has learned focusing positivity, joy, and hope. She talks about embracing joy and that we can’t just sit back and expect it to run automatically. We choose our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Art Is Life

  Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

  Saltz, Jerry, 1951-

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  "This work reminds us that the contemporary museum, long revered as an elite sanctuary, now beckons as a new commons: a town square, a venue for community building, even an agent of change. A major factor in this is the influence of social…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lily's Promise

  Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--a Story for All Generations

  Ebert, Lily, 1923-

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  Lily's story is very tragic, but even after the terrible things she experienced in Nazi concentration camps she was able to stay optimistic and hold onto hope. This extraordinary woman found the strength to speak out in the hope that such…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Freedom Writer

  Stories of Hardship and Hope From the Next Generation

  Freedom Writers,

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  The Freedom Writers Foundation is a non-profit organization created to "inspire young, underprivileged students to pick up pens instead of guns." In this book, students from all over the world write letters to the original Freedom Writers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Graceland, at Last

  Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

  Renkl, Margaret

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  Margaret Renkl says it best. "Maybe being a Southern writer is only a matter of loving a damaged and damaging place, of loving its flawed and beautiful people, so much that you have to stay there, observing and recording and believing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival & Hope in An American City

  Elliott, Andrea,

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  This book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2022. Incredibly well written and researched, it follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a young child with a huge imagination growing up in the Brooklyn…Read moreRead more of this annotation