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Bingo Did It!

by Catherine Reed-Thureson

"Bingo Did It!" shares a humorous and relatable story about a little girl and her pet dog. Wisteria Jane and Bingo play all kinds of fun, imaginative games, but Wisty likes to blame Bingo when things go wrong. The story offers a gentle... Read More

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Fire Angels

by Meg Nola

This is a heartbreaking and engrossing novelization of part of Chicago’s history. Elizabeth Kern’s "Fire Angels" is a novelization of the tragic 1958 fire that destroyed Chicago’s Our Lady of the Angels School and killed ninety-two... Read More

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Colonel Lágrimas

by Meg Nola

Knowledge is a form of both escape and imprisonment, in this intricate and prismatic novel. In beautifully detached prose, Carlos Fonseca Suárez’s "Colonel Lágrimas" weaves the past and present together in an intricate web of memory.... Read More

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Hindsight

by Amy O'Loughlin

This intriguing chronicle of past lives emphasizes the importance of acting in the here and now. Mindy Tarquini’s "Hindsight" is an evocative and inventive reincarnation tale that chronicles the past lives of an intriguing assortment... Read More

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A Most Singular Venture

by Karen Rigby

Winsome protagonists return in this novel that pays tribute to the classic, closed-society English mystery. Donna Fletcher Crow’s affable, problem-solving duo returns in "A Most Singular Venture", the fifth volume in a literary... Read More

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