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A Guardian and a Thief: Oprah's Book Club
by Megha Majumdar
Megha Majumdar's electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning--longlisted for the National Book Award--is set in a near-future Kolkata ravaged by climate change and social disharmony, in which the lives of five characters collide and their fates become inextricably linked--a propulsive and shattering tour de force.
In a dystopic Kolkata beset by flooding and blight, Ma, her two year old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma's husband in the home he has been building for them in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited passports and visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning, they awaken to discover that Ma's purse, with all the treasured documents within it, has been stolen.
A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma and her family, their struggle to emigrate to America, and their devastation in the wake of the theft that changes their fate to one of implacable tragedy; and the story of Boomba, the thief, whose hunger and desperation to care for his family drive him to commit a crime whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families whose destinies become inexorably entangled, wresting compassion from each narrative as the complexities of each character's circumstances--their helplessness in the face of poverty and corruption, and the need to stave off encroaching catastrophe--are captured with clarity and piercing empathy.
A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation.
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Wild People Quiet
by Tara Gereaux
A taut, exquisitely rendered story exploring the repercussions of a woman's decision to hide her Métis identity while living in a small, predominantly white prairie town in the 1940s, for readers of The Berry Pickers, Tommy Orange, and The Vanishing Half. Torduvalle, Saskatchewan, 1946. Florence has created a beautiful life for herself. Her home is immaculate; she is a model employee at Pratt's Insurance, where she works as a secretary. Her hair is the perfect shade of movie-star blonde--never once does she allow her brown roots to show. She dyes them every other Saturday night, without fail. But one morning, everything changes. Florence notices a new group of men at the local diner, Métis workers from out of town, hired on for the season at a nearby farm. And one of them has a connection to the past that Florence has spent her entire life outrunning. He has one simple request for her. Suddenly, Florence is thrown back into memories of her life before. Suddenly, the line between who she once was and who she has chosen to be feels very thin. And when Florence learns of the government's plans for the Métis community on the fringes of town, she will be faced with a choice--one that will shatter her carefully constructed life forever. This extraordinary novel asks us what we will do for our community, for our families, for our friends, even at our own expense. It examines the harrowing effects of choosing to live as someone else--and the radiant peace that comes from finally living one's truth. Gripping, wrenching, and utterly immersive, Wild People Quiet is a stunning achievement by a remarkable literary talent.
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Wild dark shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
On a remote island near Antarctica, the Salt family's fragile existence is upended by the arrival of Rowan, a mysterious woman who washes ashore during a storm, forcing them to confront rising dangers and the hope of rebuilding trust amidst isolation and loss.
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The Girls Before
by Kate Alice Marshall
From the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, and A Killing Cold, a new novel about a search & rescue expert, a kidnapped woman, and the lost girls who haunt them both. There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone. Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But if the door opens at last, will it mean salvation, or only the beginning of her fight to survive? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there's always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town's most prominent family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.
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The Restoration Garden
by Sara Blaydes
A landscape architect unearths the tangled history of a once-celebrated English garden--and all its mysteries--in a captivating novel by the author of The Last Secret of Lily Adams.Julia Esdaile is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor--the grounds of which are now an abandoned snarl of bramble and weeds--to their original splendor. For the enigmatic lady of the manor, ninety-two-year-old Margaret Clarke, the reason for the restoration is the deeply private story of a promise made a lifetime ago, and a vow to keep it before she dies.It's 1940, and Margaret's older half sister, Irene, an aspiring artist, dreams of an exciting world beyond Havenworth. Her only escapes are James Atherton, a handsome officer in the RAF, and her sketchbook of flower drawings. Bonding over their disdain for war, Irene follows James to London, where, irrevocably in love, she is forced to make a choice she never imagined. With that, Irene vanishes from Margaret's life forever.Now, with the help of Margaret's godson, Andrew, Julia is determined to uncover both the long-buried secrets of the past and the truth behind a heartbreaking mystery that only restoring the gardens of Havenworth can solve.
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The Strength of the Few
by James Islington
This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many-one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels-follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history across alternate dimensions.
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The Primrose Murder Society
by Stacy Hackney
Witty, endearing, and wildly entertaining, this Southern cozy mystery is a little bit Gilmore Girls, a little bit Finlay Donovan, with a big helping of Only Murders In the Building.
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I Have a Love Story
by Natalie MacMaster
I have a love story shares Natalie's most profound and intimate thoughts about the love she has received throughout her life and the effects of that love. Join friends and fans everywhere as they discover Natalie's journey, musical evolution, love of family, and deeply personal spirituality. Simple, insightful and inspiring are words that best describe Natalie MacMaster's love story!
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The Invincible Brain: The Clinically Proven Plan to Age-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp for Life
by Majid Fotuhi
In just 12 weeks, you can take major steps to prevent and reverse cognitive decline, boost memory, and enhance mental sharpness at any age. A leading neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University unveils a groundbreaking glimpse into the remarkable, resilient brain, and offers a science-backed plan to unlock its true potential. Dr. Majid Fotuhi, MD, PhD, world-renowned neurologist and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, is leading the charge in revolutionizing how we understand human intelligence, brain health, and age-related cognitive decline. In this pioneering book, he reveals the true wonder of how the brain works and its infinite potential for growth and change. Supported by over 35 years of original research, The Invincible Brain demonstrates how targeted lifestyle changes can prevent, treat, and even reverse mild cognitive impairment, early Alzheimer's disease, dementia, ADHD, and concussion symptoms.Dr. Fotuhi's 12-week program is backed by extraordinary clinical results, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, showing that more than 80% of patients achieve exceptional improvements in memory, focus, and other cognitive functions. In elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment, MRIs show a 3% increase in the volume of the hippocampus, the key brain region for learning and memory.This actionable guide provides a step-by-step formula for unlocking your brain's hidden potential, building resilience, and maximizing mental acuity at any age. In this book, you'll discover: The Five Pillars of Brain Health: The most essential strategies to optimize fitness, sleep, nutrition, mindset, and brain training for lifelong cognitive vitality.A New Understanding of Alzheimer's: The truth about dementia and Alzheimer's, including the latest in testing and treatment.Customizable Brain Exercises: Fun, scalable techniques to enhance memory, problem-solving, and focus.A Brain-Boosting Diet Plan: A nutrient-rich plan that can reduce markers of Alzheimer's disease and keep your brain up to 18 years younger.Stress Management Tools: DIY biofeedback and mindfulness practices that can boost heart rate variability to build a calmer and more resilient brain.Sleep Optimization Techniques: Proven methods to boost deep sleep for overnight brain detoxification and renewal.The Invincible Brain delivers everything you need to empower your brain to thrive--in as little as 12 weeks. Your smarter, sharper future begins now.
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The First Survivor: Life with Canada's Deadliest Mass Shooter
by Maureen Banfield
An unflinching memoir that reframes a national tragedy and demands we reckon with the cost of ignoring intimate partner violence.On April 18, 2020, Lisa Banfield's life shattered.After nineteen years in a controlling and often abusive relationship, she escaped a violent assault by her partner, Gabriel Wortman-unaware he was about to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history. In The First Survivor, Banfield tells her story for the first time: of being groomed and surviving years of intimate partner violence, and of the horrific night she fled barefoot into the freezing woods as Wortman began a murderous rampage that left twenty-two people and an unborn child dead.Told with raw honesty and courage, Banfield's memoir is more than a personal account of life with a man she tried to heal-it's a call to action. With intimate reflections and her own transformation, she exposes the failures in how society sees, supports, and judges survivors of domestic abuse.This is a powerful story of trauma, survival, and one woman's journey reclaiming her voice and redefining her life.
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Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years
by Mary Soderstrom
Safeguarding collective wisdom is a powerful tool for civilization to overcome the major upheavals ahead. Climate change, civil unrest, wars: How will we make it through the tough times looming before us? By remembering, Mary Soderstrom argues. Ours is not the first time in history when catastrophe has threatened societies, and using examples from China, the Roman Empire, and North American Indigenous cultures, Soderstrom shows how memory can lead the way toward the future. She begins by examining how memory works and then details how we store our collective memories in libraries and archives, as well as in the vastness of the digital universe. In part an entertaining history of knowledge and where we keep it, Before We Forget allays fears and encourages people to develop strategies for safeguarding collective and individual wisdom, which we will need to meet the challenges ahead.
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North of Ordinary: How One Woman Left It All Behind for Wilderness and Wonder in Alaska's Frozen Frontier
by Sue Aikens
When the wild strips everything away, what's left is who you are.In the raw, untamed wilds of Alaska--where the wind howls, predators hunt, and the sun disappears for months--only a rare few figure out how to survive. Sue Aikens, the breakout star of National Geographic's long-running TV show Life Below Zero, is one of them. At her remote outpost 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, she weathers more than just brutal winters and hungry bears. Sue battles isolation, injury, and the ghosts of a turbulent past, forging a life in a place most people wouldn't last a day.Left to fend for herself as a child, Sue's fight to survive began long before she ever set foot in Alaska. In North of Ordinary, she tells the unforgettable story of abandonment, grit, and fierce independence--from navigating deadly storms and surviving a horrific bear attack to learning how to build a life, a home, and a sense of self where most would see only desolation. With her trademark wit, fearless honesty, and an indomitable spirit, Sue proves that the toughest terrain isn't always on the map. It's the one we conquer inside.Unflinching and inspiring, North of Ordinary is a memoir of resilience, reinvention, and the extraordinary power of choosing your own way through the world.
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Judy Blume: A Life
by Mark Oppenheimer
The highly anticipated biography of one of the world's most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics--including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Deenie; and Summer Sisters--touched the lives of tens of millions of readers. For more than fifty-five years her work has done something revolutionary: it rewired the world's expectations of what literature for young people can be--frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona, and the unlikely journey of her literary ascension, until now. In Judy Blume, journalist, historian, and longtime Blume aficionado Mark Oppenheimer pens a beautiful, multidimensional portrait of the acclaimed author through extensive interviews with Blume herself, invaluable access to her papers and correspondence, and thoughtful analysis of Blume's beloved novels, including early, unpublished works that shed light on the pathbreaking writer she would become. Oppenheimer goes deep, exploring Blume's middle-class 1950s upbringing, complicated childhood, varied relationships and marriages, unabashed sexual experiences, bouts of heartache and loss, and enduring legacy as a champion of free speech and contemporary literature. Oppenheimer peels back the curtain to reveal the woman behind the literary empire in all her complex, multifaceted glory--a true gift for anyone who grew up reading and loving these extraordinary books.
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A Thousand Perfect Lies
by Monica Murphy
Welcome to the school of lies. From TikTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes her next smash hit YA series that mixes Bully and One of Us is Lying into an irresistibly addictive novel about taking on the king of the campus--the cruelest (and hottest) guy in school--with the only weapon that hurts...the truth.
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Werewolves Don't Keep Diaries
by Suzanne Sutherland
In this funny, partially illustrated early chapter book, Lou can't seem to do anything right. His body seems to be against him too--growing hair on his feet, sprouting claws and making him want to howl. But just as he thinks he has to run away, he learns about his family legacy and realizes he's exactly who he's meant to be.
Ages 6 to 8
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Fern and Newt and the Lost Loot
by Mireille Messier
In this illustrated early chapter book, Fern and her friend Newt help a neighbor with weeding and butterfly-egg collecting so they can earn money for a metal detector to help them find a jewelry box they lost at the beach.
Ages 6 to 8
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Unicornia: The Frozen Palace: (A Magical Chapter Book for Kids Ages 5-7 about Friendship, Teamwork, and Winter Adventures)
by Ana Punset
The next sparkling adventure in the shimmering Unicornia series, featuring a school trip to an incredible frozen palace. Claudia is going on a school field trip to the wintriest and most incredible place ever: the Frozen Palace. The walls are made of sparkling ice, there are penguins everywhere and you can fly with unicorns, or with reindeer! Without a doubt, this is the most magical place EVER. But when Claudia and her friends get lost, can they find the way out of the palace? Find out in this snow-dusted festive adventure packed with magic, snowflakes, and unicorns.
Ages 5 to 7
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Big Nate: Code Red!: Volume 34
by Lincoln Peirce
Mischievous, imaginative sixth-grader Nate Wright is a favorite of middle grade readers everywhere. Thanks to his hilarious schemes, grand ideas, and unusual approach to friendship, there's never a dull moment with Big Nate! Sixth-grade phenom Nate Wright is a force, whether on the soccer field, a master of pranks, or as the school newspaper's cartoonist, and now he's using his talents to launch a new podcast. Spring fever is in the air, both on the baseball field and school crushes, and Nate worries that the worst team name in history may hurt his mojo. Nate's friends do their best to keep him in check, but the star of Lincoln Peirce's bestselling series is determined to overcome any obstacle: surprise locker partners, a detention-happy teacher, or even cafetorium duty with Coach John. In Big Nate: Code Red, Nate and friends pull out all the stops!
Ages 8 to 12
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Table Titans Club: Sneak Attack
by Scott Kurtz
Table Titans Club members Val, Kate, Alan, Andrew, and Darius are psyched to spend the summer at a LARP camp, but conflict between friends might ruin the summer and their club.
Ages 8 to 12
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Box Tales: Super Terrific Showtime!
by James Burks
Fun, expressive, informative, and imaginative! I want a box full of these books! --Ben Clanton, New York Times bestselling author of the Narwhal and Jelly series. A trilogy of fun, charming, and how-to stories following the curious and spunky Beatrix and Box. Friends Bea and Box love to spend their time together dreaming up exciting new things to try, and Box's next dream is as big and glitzy as Hollywood itself--they're putting on a variety show! But before the curtain goes up and the entertainers take the stage, the two friends have a lot to do, like finding a curtain... And come to think of it, they're going to need a stage, and some entertainers.... There's a lot to do before their dreams of show business stardom come true, but they know that they can pull off anything together--especially with a little help from their grownups--once they make a plan. Come along for all the behind-the-scenes action as Bea and Box tackle the task of creating, advertising, casting, costuming, and finally staging their most ambitious adventure yet--Super Terrific Showtime!
Ages 5 to 9
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When You Find a Question
by Allie Millington
In a town that values answers above all else, a young boy bravely shares a question.
Ages 4 to 7
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Gotcha Day
by Deborah Kerbel
In this sweet rhyming picture book, a stray dog wanders through a neighborhood, dirty and hungry, until he's brought to a local rescue center where he gets fed, groomed and perfumed--and finally finds his forever home when a young girl and her family adopt him.
Ages 3 to 5
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Eco: The Little Electric Taxi
by Deb Adamson
Eco, a little electric taxi, leads a family of scared ducks that are causing a traffic jam safely to the park.
Ages 4 to 7
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The Lost Robot
by Joe Todd-Stanton
A heart-warming picture book about a lost, broken robot searching for their place in life, their family and their forever home by award-winning author and illustrator Joe Todd-Stanton. Deep in the heart of a rubbish dump, a little broken robot woke up . . . Mio can't remember where they came from or how long it's been, but they know they're not meant to be there. They go in search of their memories and the home they once knew, only to discover that everything has changed. A stunning picture book with a beautiful message about loving yourself and knowing there is always a place where you belong.
Ages 3 to 5
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Action Jasmine
by Kristen Mai Giang
A shy girl spends a special day with her grandfather discovering the action superhero inside her in a vivid celebration of imagination and play. When Jasmine spies a boy playing by himself, can she find the courage to break out of her shell, start some action, and make a new friend?
Ages 4 to 8.
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