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Life Clues

by Allison Janicki

Encouraging people to step back from the chaos and complexity of adulthood and renew their childhood senses of wonder, "Life Clues" is an exuberant self-help text that leads by example. Angela C. Santomero was fascinated with Mister... Read More

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Lost Grove

by Rachel Telljohn

Marked by supernatural intrigue, the mystery novel "Lost Grove" reveals a town’s misgivings and secrets. In Charlotte Zang and Alex Knudsen’s gripping novel "Lost Grove", a young woman’s death reveals a web of mysteries in her... Read More

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Journey to the Pacific

by Mary McNichol

In the historical novel "Journey to the Pacific", a dreamer influences the growth of his frontier community. Judith A. Perkins’s historical novel "Journey to the Pacific" is the story of one man’s dream of seeing the Pacific Ocean... Read More

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The Shochet

by Willem Marx

A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More

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Fog & Fireflies

by Isabella Zhou

In the eerie, suspenseful fantasy novel Fog & Fireflies, a brave girl confronts a relentless and mysterious force. The world is encased in fog that births dangerous phantoms and false voices and that spirits away anything that falls... Read More

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The Burying Point

by Leah Webster

Horrifying circumstances once more beset Salem, Massachusetts, in the thrilling supernatural thriller "The Burying Point". A detective and his new partner race to find a missing woman amid a series of strange events in Derik... Read More

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Look toward the Rising Sun

by Michele Sharpe

"Look toward the Rising Sun" is a striking historical novel about growing up Black and middle class in the Jim Crow era. In Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s historical novel "Look toward the Rising Sun", a Black girl comes of age in Jackson,... Read More

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