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The bog wife : a novel
by Kay Chronister
In West Virginia, the Haddesley siblings confront long-buried family secrets and supernatural bargains linked to their ancestral cranberry bog when it fails to produce the expected “bog-wife,” leading them to question their traditions and face unknown futures amidst internal conflict and a troubled past.
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Blonde dust
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Pauline, a young chambermaid who works at the legendary Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada, is asked to step in for a colleague and clean Suite 614. Although she was told the rooms were empty, a dazed, sleepy woman appears before her. This is Mrs. Miller, aka Marilyn Monroe, whose stay in Reno coincides with the breakdown of her marriage to Arthur Miller and the filming of what was to be her last film, The Misfits. Set in the American West in 1960 where the mustang horses run wild, an unexpected friendship unfolds between the most famous movie star in the world and a young cleaning woman whose life will be changed forever through the course of a few weeks. A testament to the enduring power of female friendship and a reimagining of a side of Marilyn Monroe that has never been seen before.
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A woman in the wild : a novel
by Tad Crawford
A psychologist in crisis leaves her established practice in the city for an open-ended retreat in the mountains at the Institute for Healing and Transformation. Feeling lost, betrayed, and stricken by guilt not to have saved her daughter from sexual abuse, she hopes to find a new path to ease her pain and uncertainties.
Soon after her arrival, a “wild” man who roamed the forest with a bear is brought to the institute. When the man is given to her care, she performs a suspenseful balancing as she seeks to heal him as well as herself.
Hiking and meditating each day, she initiates an inner journey that shakes her free from the familiar. As the months pass, she engages her guilt and sorrow, confronts her failures, weighs the limits of therapy and self-forgiveness, and seeks to unleash the healing powers of the unconscious and of love.
Readers will find this an absorbing and dramatic novel of abuse, resilience, and the quest for transformation.
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Badlands
by Douglas J. Preston
In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found-and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands-lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or... sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found-exactly like the other-the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
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The lost book of first loves
by RaeAnne Thayne
From New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne comes a brand-new story about two women, a family secret and a lost manuscript that changes everything…
Raised by her literary icon father Carson Wells, Allison Wells always felt loved, even though her mother died when she was a teen. But when she takes a DNA test on a whim and discovers she has a sister that she’s never heard about before, it’s clear there are things her father never told her before he died. Determined to meet Juniper—her half sister—and unravel the truth of what happened all those years ago, Ali finds herself taking a job as Juniper’s intern. She’ll eventually figure out a way to tell Juniper the truth of their relationship. But she never could have imagined what would happen next…
Juniper Connolly has always been incredibly healthy…until she wakes up in the hospital after experiencing cardiac arrest, with her new—and recently fired—intern to thank for saving her life. It’s clear June needs to de-stress her life a little, so when Ali offers her the use of her family’s cabin in a small Wyoming town, June has no reason not to go. But when she arrives in the small town, her life will never be the same.
Under the wide-open spaces of the Wyoming summer sun, Ali and June will untangle the secrets and lies their lives were built on to discover who they really are and what family really means. But even more than that, they'll build a real relationship with one another and finally become sisters.
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The summer that changed everything : a novel
by Brenda Novak
She returned to prove her father's innocence, but there's no telling what she'll find…
It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three victims—all people she knew—which ruined her life at just seventeen. But now she’s back in Virginia to talk to him, wondering if there’s more to the story of what happened that fateful night.
An old flame, Ford Wagner, makes his own return to North Hampton Beach, fleeing a marriage that seems destined for divorce. He’s wary of Lucy and her digging into the past, but the more time they spend together, the closer they get and the more he finds himself reconsidering the truth behind the death of their mutual friend that summer. Problem is, there are plenty of those in this small coastal town who would prefer things stay quiet…
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The traitor of Sherwood Forest
by Amy S. Kaufman
A sultry, immersive, and heart-pounding historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the piercing eyes of one of his spies Jane Crow spends her long days working hard, trying to make ends meet for her family. When her mother takes a new man, abruptly abandoning Jane, her lover Bran offers to take her to the woods to walk a new path--that of the infamous Lord of the Greenwood: Robin Hood. While no one else has ever seen Jane for much of...well, anything, Robin sees her quiet, unassuming nature for all its potential. He needs a spy in the King's Houses; Jane accepts. At first, her work for Robin seems straightforward enough: observe and report on the various nobles who make their way through the King's Houses, including the new Sheriff of Nottingham, who would like nothing more than to see Robin Hood's head on a spike. But the more Jane is drawn into Robin's world, the more she's drawn to Robin himself: a man as charismatic as he is cunning, capable of plucking at her heart as easily as he notches an arrow. As his schemes get increasingly complex-and shockingly violent-Jane starts to suspect that Robin's good deeds have a darker edge: that he may care more about cementing his own legacy than he cares about the common people. And that, despite his declarations of affection, she might be just another game to him. Another object to be stolen. When Jane is caught spying, her life or Robin's on the line, she must decide: is she a prize to be won, a pawn to be used and discarded-or is she an equal player in the game between nobles and thieves?
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Albion : a novel
by Anna Hope
The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury their patriarch, Philip. Father, grandfather, husband, landowner, one-time hippy, long-time philanderer, Philip was the blinding sun around which the family has orbited their entire lives.
Eldest daughter Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, mother to a daughter whose future she fears for, dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn to create a better world. Each believes their father has given them his blessing and are set on a collision course with the other.
Isa, Philip’s estranged youngest child, only hopes to reconnect with her childhood love who still lives on the estate, to discover if her feelings for him are creating the fault lines in her marriage. Grace, bruised and diminished after fifty years in a loveless marriage, is at a crossroads, wondering whether she may finally have the strength to choose between freedom and duty. And then there is Clara, who arrives from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.
Beautifully layered and utterly compelling, Anna Hope’s multigenerational saga is a bold, brilliant, and deeply contemporary examination of family dynamics, colonial legacies, and class, set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
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Eat to Love : Where Health Meets Flavor: 115+ Nourishing and Adaptable Plant-forward Recipes from a Nutritional Chef
by Mikaela Reuben
Mikaela Reuben has spent over 15 years working with clients around the world, amassing essential knowledge and hands-on experience with food and nutrition. With all her clients, Mikaela takes a holistic approach to create healthy and flavorful meals to meet each person’s unique needs and dietary preferences.
In Eat to Love, she shares, for the first time, the recipes and insider tips she’s learned. The playful and creative recipes in this book are adaptable to any diet, and each includes nutritional information to help you make intentional and informed decisions that will support your specific health goals.
Inside the pages of this stunning cookbook, you’ll find:
Nutrient-dense recipes that can be adapted to any diet: Simple, whole-food, plant-forward, and gluten-free recipes offer maximum nutrition without compromising flavor. Recipes are clearly labeled when they are vegan, dairy-free, or grain-free.
Health benefits to match your unique needs: Nutritional icons on every recipe highlight those that are high in fiber or protein or low in carbohydrates, and a health benefit classification system shows those that are supportive of gut health, beauty and anti-aging, detoxification, and more.
Recipes for every day, all day: Mikaela’s accessible and easy-to-follow recipes are meant to mix and match, and she shares countless suggestions for how to combine them into delicious, balanced meals.Eat to Love is an invitation to show love to yourself and others through food. It’s a beautiful and inspiring cookbook for anyone ready to rethink what they’re putting into their body and why.
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So easy so good : delicious recipes and expert tips for balanced eating
by Kylie Sakaida
In this beautiful, comprehensive cookbook, Kylie has collected her best nutrition tips along with both fan-favorite and brand-new recipes. Whether you want to change your eating habits and mindset or are just looking for a healthy dinner recipe, So Easy So Good has you covered. Kylie simplifies complex concepts through simple lists, charts, and sidebars. Her recipes and tips emphasize a healthy, balanced mix of protein, carbs, healthy fats, and fiber so you can feel nourished and satisfied. Many of Kylie's recipes are inspired by the Asian flavors from her upbringing. Some recipes are designed to minimize prep time by using frozen veggies and nutrient-dense convenience foods, while others can be frozen in advance and reheated within minutes for a quick meal.
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Colorful homes for the soul : bright ideas for sustainable homes
by Sara Bird
Color is a universal language and a channel for creativity and imagination. It taps into our minds, evokes emotions, and gets under our skin. In this book, Sara Bird and Dan Duchars share how to be inventive with color while making soulful and sustainable choices.
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A clean mess / : A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
by Tiffany Jenkins
After a brutal struggle with opioid addiction that landed her four months in prison, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. What she didn't expect was just how fast life would happen once she was out of prison. She went from felon to married, sober mom of three in just two years. But life doesn't stop happening; her marriage collapsed a few years later, a crisis that forced her reckoning with the foundations of her mental health and sobriety. As she forged her future, Tiffany learned to feel emotions and live life without numbing herself with drugs. She had to figure out how to be a mom, how to have a career, how to be married, how to get divorced, how to be an adult, and how to have feelings all at the same time. With dark humor and page-turning storytelling, she shows how she learned to survive when her crutches and band aids were taken away from her, and the gratitude and peace she found on the other side of addiction.
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Miniscapes : Create Your Own Terrarium
by Clea Cregan
Welcome to the wonderful world of terrariums. Miniscapes inspires and guides anyone who wants to create their very own mini indoor garden - green thumb not required.
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A place called Yellowstone : the epic history of the world's first national park
by Randall K. Wilson
It has been called Wonderland, America's Serengeti, the crown jewel of the National Park System, and America's best idea. But how did this faraway landscape evolve into one of the most recognizable places in the world? As the birthplace of the national park system, Yellowstone witnessed the first-ever attempt to protect wildlife, to restore endangered species, and to develop a new industry centered on nature tourism. Yellowstone remains a national icon, one of the few entities capable of bridging ideological divides in the United States. Yet the park's history is also filled with episodes of conflict and exclusion, setting precedents for Native American land dispossession, land rights disputes, and prolonged tensions between commercialism and environmental conservation. Yellowstone's legacies are both celebratory and problematic. A Place Called Yellowstone tells the comprehensive story of Yellowstone as the story of the nation itself.
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Serge & Roscoe
by Len Vlahos
Two mismatched rescue dogs, Serge, an otterhound on the verge of retirement, and Roscoe, a border collie fresh out of the academy, are forced to team up to save the day when a wildfire ravages a Colorado forest.
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The forest in the sky / : The Forest in the Sky
by Pari Thomson
Daisy and her friends set off to rescue her mother and the other Botanists held captive in the Amazon rainforest, but when their mission is thrown off course they must rely on the magic of Amazeria to defeat their enemies.
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The dragonslayers
by Bruce Coville
A brave squire, an earnest page, and a strong-willed princess set out, each for individual reasons, to try to slay the dragon created to carry out a witch's revenge.
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The war of the maps
by Jonathan Auxier
The War of the Maps is a breathtaking fantasy in the vein of His Dark Materials and The Last Battle that dares to give new answers to age-old questions—inviting readers of all ages to sail beyond the edges of the map into a world of magic, myth, and boundless adventure.
Since time before time, two opposing forces have been locked in an endless It is the war between magic and reason—between what if and what is. And the victor will not just shape the future but the very nature of reality.
Peter Nimble and Sophie Quire have spent the last four years fighting to protect a world of magic from the insidious, unstoppable forces of “progress.” But, every day, the wonders that once surrounded them are vanishing. Lurking behind this transformation is a mysterious group called The League of Maps that seems to hold the answers.
As Peter and Sophie fight to untangle this mystery, they find themselves thrown into opposing sides of a vast war that stretches from the very beginning of humanity and into our present age.
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There's Something Odd About the Babysitter
by Elayne Crain
Freddie has had many many babysitters over the years. And he’s never liked a single one.
So when a new one shows up, he’s sure he’s in for a boring night. Yet the babysitter seems nervous. Their table manners are appalling. And dinner is garbage. . . literally.
But after Freddie decides to team up with the babysitter to turn the evening around, what started out as boring becomes a night he won’t forget.
Humorous and heartfelt, this picture book full of delightful art is about letting new people (or raccoons) in...even when it's hard.
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The Day the Crayons Made Friends
by Drew Daywalt
The hilarious Crayons from the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit are back for another adventure – and this time they explore Duncan's playroom. Will they want to leave the crayon box for good after they make new friends?
Duncan’s crayons just can’t seem to stay put!
After convincing one group of crayons to go back to work after they wanted to quit and rescuing another group who got lost in the most inconvenient places, Duncan’s crayons have disappeared once more.
But this time they’ve gone into his room to make friends. From Red Crayon, who fulfils his dream of driving a fire engine, to Blue Crayon, who meets a fashion doll desperately in need of a head, to fan favourite Esteban, who is off to tame a teddy bear (or as he would call it, a wild beast), each crayon has an exciting story to share about the new objects they’ve met and the new adventures they’ve had.
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Wait 'til you're older
by Maria Marianayagam
A heartwarming picture book teaching children patience and to live in the moment. This clever, sweet story is about a girl named Reha who despises the present, because her brother says he won't let her play with his dinosaur toys until she's older. To solve this problem, she decides to build a time machine. But even though she does everything her time travel book says, she can't seem to get it right. Then in her last attempt to find what she needs, her brother asks if he can help. Perhaps the present could be okay after all? Information is included in the back matter on topics such as: concepts of time (past, present, and future) gravity black holes wormholes.
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Bob the Boo-Boo
by Mélina Schoenborn
A charming and funny story with an unexpected main character – a boo-boo!
An adorable boo-boo named Bob is looking for a cozy place to settle down when he spots a little boy who’s fallen off his bike and hurt himself. ”Can I be your boo-boo?“ Bob asks the boy. When the boy agrees, Bob eagerly jumps up onto his scraped knee. It’s a perfect spot, and Bob and the boy spend many glorious days doing everything together. That is, until the boy starts to realize what Bob has known all along. Boo-boos and little boys can’t stay together forever. Or can they?
This fun and original story is the perfect remedy for any child who’s got a boo-boo of their own, and a great choice for helping children navigate their emotions after getting hurt.
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Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses
by Randy Rainbow
In his first ever picture book, New York Times-bestselling author Randy Rainbow tells a fun, powerful story about embracing who you really are - even when it's easier to blend in,
Randy Rainbow is uniquely himself. He loves painting his nails and listening to old Broadway albums.
But when some kids at school tease Randy for being who he is, he goes to his beloved granny for a solution. And she has just the thing - a pair of sparkly pink glasses.
The moment Randy puts the glasses on, the drab world around him turns Technicolor in a blink! The town swimming pool? It's full of mermaids, including a mer-Randy!
Everything is more fun with the glasses - including Randy himself - and Randy's confidence grows and grows. But is the magic inside the glasses... or inside Randy.
Perfect for readers who live bright colors, pink sparkles and unforgettable main characters, Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses is destined to become a favorite.
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As the world goes by
by Jonathan Lambert
This story, just right for readers ages 3-7, celebrates finding stillness in a busy world, and appreciating the little things in life.
When Buttons the dog sees a beautiful blue butterfly, he is sure everyone will want to see it, too. But among the bustle of the busy street and the chitter-chatter of the café, no one notices the insect. He tries to encourage everyone he meets to stop and admire the wonder and beauty of the butterfly, but no one does. Is there anything he can do to get everyone to focus their attention on the beautiful insect? This inspiring story celebrates finding stillness in a busy world, and appreciating the little things in life.
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