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VANDEMEREAt 17 years old, Vandy Davidson (aka Vandemere Petruska) is the star trick rider in a traveling circus who feels a special bond with his horses;...
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THE FOOTPRINTThe feline arrives at a gathering of wild animals. The cat doesn’t feel like it fits in; in fact, it feels as though the others are afraid of...
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1789Allen (1929-2018) accepts the myth that Americans disliked the weak Articles of Confederation, which guided the Colonies through and after the...
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TAKE CREEK, FOR EXAMPLEThe narrator of Rugeley’s punchy debut is entering his senior year at Take Creek, a private art school in upstate New York. Something of a...
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BAD AGENCYRuby lives under a cloud of anxiety and depression. A successful real estate agent in the Bay Area, she refuses to give in to self-pity, even...
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MAMA SAIDAt the heart of the book is the often fraught relationship between mothers and daughters—always complicated but made especially so by the...
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OUR GREATEST GIFTPresented in the first-person plural and addressed to beloved caregivers, the narrated list runs adulatory. “You’ve shown us that home / is...
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THE HEARTBREAK YEARSGrowing up, Honey was obsessed with romance novels. “I fantasized about living in that serene, happily-ever-after moment when the girl and the...
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JINGLE BELL JOYThis charming homage to Christmas-preparation merriment is expressed through simple, four-line verses as various animal families, friends, and...
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LIVE NOT BY LIESZoya Zarubina and Irina Anokhin first meet when they are 5 years old in Harbin, China. Both girls live in the same building—Zoya, the daughter...
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TRAITOR'S RUNStevenson’s far-future SF series opener focuses on evil space invaders who happen to be human—an order called the Hegemony, which arose in the...
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HER: THE FLAME TREEMinh Tánh, a Vietnamese-American graduate student and writer, follows a lead about the adopted daughter of an elderly imperial eunuch serving...
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THE JOY OF CHRISTMASTiny tots shout gleefully from their beds: “Wake up! Wake up! / It’s Christmas day! // Santa’s been here, / and it’s time to play.” They scurry...
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HOW TO LIVE“For two years, I’ve been traveling to places I’ve never been before, where I know no one,” writes Groom, author of I Wore the Ocean in the...
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CATINAT BOULEVARDIn 1966, Mai is 13 years old, leading a pampered existence in a traditional Confucian household in Saigon. In spite of daily media reminding her...
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AUNTIE MAGGIE AND HER FIVE NEPHEWS AND NIECESAuntie Maggie has five nieces and nephews, with the delightful names of Timmy, Tammy, Tommy, Tummy, and Temmy. They are all going on an outing...
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HOW THIS BOOK GOT REDOne day, Red (an adorable red panda) and her friend Gee (an equally cute black-and-white giant panda) find a book about pandas. Red’s initial...
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WOKE UP LIKE THISCharlotte Wu might be a bit of a control freak, but she knows how to get things done. One of her last tasks before graduating from high school...
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THE HUNGER BOOKAs children, Brewer and her younger brother, Tomek, would peel sheets of skin off their fingers and palms—a sign of a vitamin deficiency—and...
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THE COUNTESS GAMEIn 1715, Elizabeth Hartwell is expelled from the court of the recently crowned King George I. After the death of her court physician father, she...
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FORCE OF NATUREIn 2004, celebrating her 50th birthday, the author, along with her best friend, Z, threw an “over-the-top party.” Only days later, Z was killed...
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A PARADE OF GRIEFIn 2016, the author received a Christmas newsletter from some friends in which he learned that the couple’s son, a college student, had been...
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YEARNING FOR THE LIGHTUniversity of Michigan senior Drew Owens cherishes his late-night walks across campus. Unfortunately, that’s prime time for vampires to stalk,...
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MURDER IN AN ITALIAN VILLAGETo the Positanesi, Bria Bartolucci, who grew up in neighboring Ravello, might as well have been from Australia. But when her husband, Carlo,...
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THE HEXOLOGISTSWhen the royal secretary interrupts the Wilbies’ teatime because the king is asking to be baked alive into a cake, it’s just a normal day for...
