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DOWN THE WELLIn 2017, two hunters in Kentucky came across a dead town; ‘dead’ in the sense that all of the residents—hundreds of them— seem to have been...
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BAD KITTY DOES NOT LIKE EASTERBad Kitty and her friends are going on an egg hunt, but besides the usual dyed eggs, a golden egg holding “the best thing ever” is waiting to be...
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HOW MIGRATION REALLY WORKSDe Haas, a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and founding member of Oxford’s International Migration Institute, has spent...
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THE CORPSE BLOOMDr. Bradley Baker is a highly successful Boston surgeon specializing in kidney transplants. His team has developed a game-changing medical...
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LONDON & SYDNEY EXPLORE THE WORLDLondon is 12 and Sydney is 9, and both girls wear brown coveralls and have brown skin and black braids decorated with gold beads. There’s little...
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WHERE SECRETS STAYYou could say the story begins in 1962 in Savannah with best friends Marge and Dotty and the dark secret they come to share when they exact...
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THE CLIFFS OF SCHIZOPHRENIAWhile in preschool, at only 4 years old, Jake McCook displayed such remarkable focus his teacher noticed and recommended, to his parents’...
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CHURNJordan and her brother, Chung, live with their parents on a struggling Kansas farm that seems primarily composed of muddy fields and packs of...
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HANDS AND STRAIGHT LINESNotoriously difficult to render, hands and straight lines are considered by Edward Rawlinson to be the trickiest subjects and most important...
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ONLY FOR THE BRAVE AT HEARTNot only has America failed to adequately say “I am sorry” to the “descendants of Africa’s Eve,” writes Pettiway, it has also “never said,...
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THE LITTLE TIGEROllie, a small child with skin the color of the page, previously seen sporting rabbit, reindeer, bear, and kitten costumes, here takes on the...
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I AM HAPPY!“I am happy,” declares the pup. “I’m SO happy I…sing on a swing, swing as I sing, head in the sky, like a butterfly.” The pup chases after...
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KEYANA LOVES HER FRIENDThe protagonist, whom readers may remember from Keyana Loves Her Family (2022), is excited: Her best friend, Nia, who moved away last year, is...
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HER DARK WINGSSeventeen-year-old Corey has grown up on the Island, where Greek gods and their mythology pervade the community’s culture and serve as their...
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SELF-CARE RX FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSIn his nonfiction debut, the author, a nurse, examines the personal experiences of all kinds of caregivers in the health field and details the...
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VOYAGE DE GOURMETLayne Green and Jang-Mi Pipper discovered their love of cooking together as children. Now teenagers, they’ve each become social media stars with...
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IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEYPrivate Nathan (Nat) Daniel Luck, the upbeat, first-person fictional narrator of the author’s retelling of Lewis and Clark’s two-year...
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LION'S GAMEIn the year 1300, the king (or Mansa) of the Mali Empire is betrayed by the rival Keita clan; they attack, and only the king’s daughter, the...
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MONARCHSAided by his noisy humanoid cheetah best friend and hype-man, Pepper, Ja’Khari hopes his unexplained phenomenal strength will help him achieve...
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HIPPOS REMAIN CALMBoynton’s beloved hippos grace pages once more; this time their story is a play on the author’s debut, Hippos Go Berserk (1977). A cozy day at...
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CREEP, LEAP, CRUNCH! A FOOD CHAIN STORYShaffer and Neal follow a series of creatures: plants that create their own food with the help of the “glorious, life-giving, fiery sun,” a...
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MADAGASCARRamavo, who later becomes the queen of Madagascar, is a young girl in this work based on real events in Madagascan history. After the book...
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THE SAVAGE STORMHolland, the author of Brothers in Arms and Big Week , draws on a number of on-the-ground accounts by participants from all sides of the...
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OUR CURSED LOVERemy Kobata is in love with her childhood best friend, Cameron Yasuda, but she’s afraid of telling him and losing his friendship. But with the...
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WHO WILL MAKE THE SNOW?Beech Forest is, by and large, a friendly place. Animal residents gather at the Under the Oak Café to peruse the gossipy Daily Mole , which...
