Staff Picks

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German Heritage Month

Welcome to Germany with Sesame Street
Christy Peterson
I Can Be All Three
Salima Alikhan
Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
In Search of Your German Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in the German Areas of Europe
Angus Baxter
Waltraut
Gabriele Goldstone
The German Canadians, 1750-1937: Immigration, Settlement & Culture
Heinz Lehmann
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
Samuel Graydon
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
Katja Hoyer
The Lemon Apron Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for the Curious Home Cook
Jennifer Emilson
Beer Hiking Berlin: The Tastiest Way to Discover Berlin
Daniel Cole
I Am Left-Handed: What I Love About Being a Lefty
Dagmar Geisler
The Lost Writings
Franz Kafka
New Selected Stories
Thomas Mann
Albert Einstein
Ma Isabel (María Isabel) Sánchez Vegara
Oktoberfest Cookbook
Julia Skowronek
Danger at Dead Man's Pass
M. G. (Maya Gabrielle) Leonard
Proud Pink Sky
Redfern Jon Barrett
Just for Nice: German-Canadian Folk Art
Fox and Bear
Miriam Körner
The Ribbon Leaf
Lori Weber
Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas
Anja Forrest Dunk
Mina Belongs Here
Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert
Beyond A Reasonable Stout
Ellie Alexander
Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans
Edwin Miller Fogel

Islamic Heritage Month

The Book Won't Burn
Samira Ahmed
The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community
Ibtihaj Muhammad
If You're Not the One
Farah Naz Rishi
Honk, Honk, Beep Beep, Putter Putt!
Rukhsana Khan
Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution
S. K. Ali
Dreamer: My Life on the Edge
Nazem Kadri
Muhammad's Recipe for Something
Maidah Ahmad
Four Eids and a Funeral
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
We Are Big Time
Hena Khan
Brown Boy: a Memoir
Omer Aziz
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
Salma Hussain
Jameela Green Ruins Everything
Zarqa Nawaz
Is There Bacon in Heaven?: a Memoir
Ali Hassan
Khadija and the Elephant Toothpaste Experiment
Farah Qaiser
The Ramadan Cookbook: 80 Delicious Recipes Perfect for Ramadan, Eid, and Celebrating Throughout the Year
Anisa Karolia
Dear Muslim Child
Rahma Rodaah
Much Ado About Nada
Uzma Jalaluddin
Grounded: a Novel
Aisha Saeed
Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday : A Novel
Jamaluddin Aram
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
Sara Khan
Aisha's Colors
Nabila Adani
Land of No Regrets: a Novel
Sadi Muktadir

Hispanic and Latin American
Heritage Month

Brownstone
Samuel Teer
Seventh Veil of Salome
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Circuit: Graphic Novel
Andrew Rostan
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Mariana Enriquez
The Street Belong To Us
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
The Great Divide A Novel
Cristina Henríquez
Squawk of Spanish
Gabriella Alderman
Pink Slime : A Novel
Fernanda Trias
Each Tiny Spark
Pablo Cartaya
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: a Novel
Julia Alvarez
Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter
Zoraida Córdova
Catalina: a Novel
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Susan Hood
How We Named the Stars
Andrés N. (Andrés Nicolás) Ordorica
The Perfect Place
Matt de la Peña
The Country of Toó
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Areli Is a Dreamer
Areli Morales
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
John Paul
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Anika Denise
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Juana Martinez-Neal
Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez
Frida Kahlo
Ma Isabel (Maria Isabel) Sánchez Vegara
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull
Familia: 125 Foolproof Mexican Recipes to Feed Your People
Marcela Valladolid
This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story
Julio Anta
Ordinary Girls: a Memoir
Jaquira Díaz
Where We Come From
Oscar Casares

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