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Everybody Here Is Kin

by Karen Rigby

A precocious teenager finds a makeshift family among strangers in BettyJoyce Nash’s perceptive, sensitive novel "Everybody Here Is Kin". On their way to a promised Key West trip, Lucille, her stepsiblings, and their mother, Naomi, stop... Read More

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Beautiful Shining People

by Karen Rigby

In Michael Grothaus’s shimmering speculative novel "Beautiful Shining People", an American teenager encounters a Japanese woman whose fragile identity fuels her anguish—and a perilous search for answers about her origins. John is a... Read More

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He Should Have Told the Bees

by Karen Rigby

A beekeeper’s reclusive, grieving daughter and a small business owner in search of healing meet over the impending fate of an apiary in Amanda Cox’s delicate Christian novel "He Should Have Told the Bees", about reconciling past... Read More

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Meeru's Multan

by Karen Rigby

Bright art with whimsical embellishments enhances this nostalgic tale, which brings a mother’s memories of book-lined market stalls and constellation-filled skies to life. In Miral Azam Khalil’s sweet bilingual picture book Meeru’s... Read More

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