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THE COMPLETE RECIPE WRITING GUIDEThere’s a lot more to creating a recipe than jotting a list of ingredients onto a notecard—even if that’s the form in which many of us...
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HIGH TEA AND THE LOW DOWNAfter finishing law school, the author, who lived in Illinois, found herself approaching the age of 30 feeling “sullen and wanting, mostly...
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GALLOP TOWARD THE SUNPopular historian Stark, author of Astoria and The Last Empty Places , offers a kind of thought experiment at the outset: What might have...
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IN THE DARK“They came in the dark and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that’s what they were.” A suspicious text laden with ill...
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THE INFINITY PARTICLEClementine Chang has been working with her SENA, or Sentient Emphatic Neurobonded Animatronic, a small robot companion, since she was a child....
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KISSING KOSHERAvital Cohen rarely experiences life without pain these days. Dealing with a condition known as interstitial cystitis while managing Best Babka...
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MONSTER BAKERGrandmonster makes the best desserts, like Key Slime Pie, Screech Cobbler, and Double-Sludge Brownies, and is teaching Tillie to bake. So when...
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ONE FRIDAY IN NAPAVene Winstonarrives at her parents’ estate to comfort her mother, Olivia, during the late stages of cancer, but the reunion is far from...
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ZEUSZeus, a chocolate Labrador puppy, enjoys a simple life of food, lying in the sun, chewing sticks, and playing with his mom and siblings. But one...
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ALL THE LOVELY BAD ONESTravis, nearly 13, and his sister, Corey, who’s a year younger, enjoy a good prank or 10. Having been banned from camp for all the pranks they...
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VIVIAN VAN TASSEL AND THE SECRET OF MIDNIGHT LAKETwelve-year-old Vivian Van Tassel has extraordinary fencing skills, a short temper, a passion for Harry Potter books, and a dead mother—for...
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THE SCARIEST KITTEN IN THE WORLDAfter a warning and a suggestion that readers find friendlier reading material about rainbows and such, the tale opens on a dismal, decrepit...
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THE SECRET SISTERSIda Bidson attended a one-room schoolhouse, but in September 1925, she says goodbye to her family. She won’t be home for two months. Ida dreams...
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MY FATHER, THE PANDA KILLERIt’s the summer of 1999, and 17-year-old Jane Vũ is resentful: Her mom left three years ago, and Jane wakes up before dawn to open her family’s...
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HOLLER, CHILDThe opening story, “The Mother,” carries an emotional wallop while setting up the collection’s theme through the voice of a self-proclaimed “old...
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HER RADIANT CURSEChanni was 2 the day Vanna was born. Adah, their father, tried to sacrifice Channi to the witch Angma in return for saving her mother’s life....
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THE OCTOBER WITCHESTold in the first person, present tense by 12-year-old Clem, youngest member of the Merlyn coven, this story loosely recasts the Morgana-Merlin...
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THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLDIn the near future, Owen (famous enough for one name only) is the biggest pop star in the world. Owen’s overwhelming appeal is something more...
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THE GREAT QUIETTeenage friends Ari and Natua’s beautiful South Pacific homeland in French Polynesia was used as a nuclear testing site by the French government...
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MOTHER TONGUENuttall, a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and the history of the English language, brings humor and a merry curiosity to her...
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AGENTS OF CHAOSIn 1963, Gary Goodson (1945-1978) left his home in Phoenix, Arizona, to study business at the University of Utah. Discharged from the Air Force...
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SECOND WIND: STORIES OF HOPEA Navy veteran and an entrepreneur, Klaas doesn’t “claim to be an expert on the subject” of suicide. But, as someone who attempted suicide, he...
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THE DUSTY ROAD TO HOMICIDEThis novel tells the somber story of Gaithersburg, Maryland–basedDusty Sampson, whose father abandons the family to live with a girlfriend when...
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CREEPING BEAUTYElizabeth “Bitsy” Roix is the plain princess of the Roix Kingdom whose fate, whether she wishes it or not, is to be married off to someone her...
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SAVAGE BREDFriends-turned-lovers Emme and Arn have been forcibly separated, and as the story opens, a newly healthy Emme believes Arn has willingly left...
