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The Second Chance Convenience Store
by Kim Ho-yeon
A heartwarming tale of community and redemption reminiscent of the bestselling novels of Matt Haig and Gabrielle Zevin.
Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. He can’t remember his past, and the only thing he knows for certain is that he could really use a drink. When he finds a lost wallet filled with documents, his life is drastically changed. Meanwhile, Mrs. Yeom, a retired history teacher and current owner of her neighborhood’s corner store, is distraught over the loss of her purse. When she receives a mysterious call from the person who found it, Mrs. Yeom impulsively invites him to stop by for lunch every day. The Second Chance Convenience Store is a moving and joyful story of a woman fighting for her community and a man who has lost everything except the will to try again.
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Among Friends
by Hal Ebbott
What begins as a celebration takes a sudden turn when a shocking betrayal shatters the trust between families.
It’s an autumn weekend at a comfortable New York country house where two deeply intertwined families have gathered to mark the host’s fifty-second birthday. This weekend, however, something is different. An unforeseen curdling of envy and resentment will erupt into an unspeakable act, the ramifications of which are enormous. Accusations, denials, and shattered illusions follow, driving wedges between friends, spouses, children and parents, and exposing the treacherous fault lines on which these families have dwelt.
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Women Like Us
by Katia Lief
Joni Ackerman was tired of being invisible.
It’s been one year since Joni Ackerman tipped the antifreeze into her husband’s cocktail. One year since he was found dead on the stairs. One year since she got away with murder. At first Joni feared the consequences of her transgression, but she’s learned to embrace the power of recklessness. It was that recklessness, after all, that took her to this rewarding new life. Joni now runs Sunny Day Productions alongside her daughter, Chris, and her best friend, Val. All is well in life and work until one day the balance is rocked when an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor appears.
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Palm Meridian
by Grace Flahive
A rollicking, big-hearted story of long-lost love, friendship, and a life well-lived, set at a Florida retirement resort for queer women.
It’s 2062 and Florida is partially underwater, but even that can’t bring down the residents of Palm Meridian Retirement Resort, a utopian home for women wanting to revel in their twilight years. For long-term resident Hannah Cardin, all that is about to change. Since receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, she has opted for a medically assisted death, and tonight, she and her raucous band of friends plan to throw one hell of an end-of-life party. Spanning the course of a single day and seventy years, and featuring vibrant and loveable characters you won’t soon forget, Palm Meridian is a joyful yet audaciously bittersweet celebration of aging and friendship that reminds us life is what we choose to make of it.
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Making Friends Can Be Murder
by Kathleen West
After unknowingly befriending a dangerous con artist, Sarah Jones becomes entwined in solving a mystery in her new neighborhood.
It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, gets invited to join a group of women who share her same very common name. What starts as a low-stakes meet-up called “The Sarah Jones Project” soon turns sinister when another local Sarah Jones is found dead, under suspicious circumstances. After fielding numerous calls from concerned loved ones ruling out their Sarah as the victim, the surviving Sarahs decide to take matters into their own hands. Can their team piece together where the deceptions lead before the killer silences someone else?
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You Deserve to Know
by Aggie Blum Thompson
A brand new suspense novel from "the master of the suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey), Aggie Blum Thompson.
Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. But when Gwen's husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. The seemingly idyllic world of the three close-knit mom friends becomes a web of deception, betrayal, and revenge.
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Life-Changing Salads: 100 Plant-Based Salads and Dressings Beyond Your Wildest Greens
by Danielle Brown
Say goodbye to boring salads with 100 unbelievably delicious plant-based recipes from Danielle Brown, the bestselling author of HealthyGirl Kitchen.
Life-Changing Salads is more than just a cookbook—it’s your ultimate guide to creating satisfying, plant-based salads that you'll crave. From crunchy chopped salads to cozy warm bowls, hearty salad wraps, quinoa powerhouses, and even no-lettuce salads (perfect for meal prep), every salad situation is covered! Discover how to create creamy, indulgent dressings using non-dairy yogurt or hummus, whip up nutrient-packed superfood blends, and master satisfying textures using nuts and seeds—all without compromising on flavor.
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
by Michael Grunwald
A groundbreaking piece of reportage about the fight to fix our food system.
By 2050, we’re going to need a lot more calories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies, but we can’t feed the world without frying it if we keep tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. We are eating the earth, an ingenious phrase coined by Michael Grunwald, and the greatest challenge facing our species will be to slow our relentless expansion of farmland into nature. In this rollicking, shocking narrative, Grunwald shows how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the center of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it even harder to grow more food with less land. It’s an often infuriating saga of lobbyists, politicians, and even the scientific establishment making terrible choices for humanity, but it’s also a hopeful account of the people figuring out what needs to be done—and trying to do it.
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Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
by Hannah Selinger
What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back?
As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible. At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York’s most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that folded your napkin while you were in the bathroom, the employee silently slipping into the night through a side door after serving meals worth more than her rent. But the thing about being invisible is that people forget you’re there, and most act differently when they think no one is looking. In Cellar Rat, Selinger chronicles her rise and fall in the restaurant business, beginning with the gritty hometown pub where she fell in love with the industry and ending with her final post serving celebrities at the Hampton’s classic Nick & Tony’s.
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What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
by John Birdsall
A celebrated food writer’s expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.
Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall propels readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses, and interior lives of James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, Esther Eng, and others who left an indelible mark on the culinary world from the margins. With cinematic verve and prose that dazzles, What Is Queer Food? is a monumental testament to food’s essential link to a modern queerness that reveals how, like fashion or tastes in music, food has become a language of LGBTQ+ identity.
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Easy Meal Prep: Save Time and Eat Healthy with Over 75 Recipes
by Erin Romeo
Conquer your healthy eating plan while saving time and money!
In Easy Meal Prep, nutrition coach and meal prep expert Erin Romeo, guides you through the essentials of meal prep, a key component to any diet—whether you’re high-protein, vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, low-carb, or just trying to eat healthy. This guide includes over 75 delicious and healthy recipes, five meal prep plans to get you started, tips and tricks for food planning, and more. So, skip the takeout and never be at a loss for a healthy meal again with this essential guide to easy meal prep.
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The 10-Minute Gardener: How to Have a Veggie Garden and a Life: 85 Time-Saving Tactics to Be More Efficient and Grow More Food in Less Time
by CaliKim
The 10-Minute Gardener is all about small efforts with a big impact. Learn quick-and-simple gardening tactics that let you have a garden and a life.
If you’ve ever uttered the words “I don’t have time to garden,” this is the book for you. The 10-Minute Gardener is filled with practical, surprising, and efficient strategies that enable you to grow the veggie garden of your dreams, one minute at a time. You’ll learn how to develop your own personal autopilot system, filled with little “cheats” to help you grow more food in less time. Broken down into the time required for each task, you’ll find to-dos that take 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 8 minutes, 10 minutes, and even a handful of 30-minute tasks for the weekend, all organized by the season. Complete beginners are welcome, but experienced gardeners will also glean plenty of useful time-saving strategies.
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