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Spoiler: more to-do lists won’t solve your overwhelm. Jennifer Musser, former corporate exec turned consultant, discovered that peak productivity star...
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village calle...
About the book: You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps you’ve made a pile of notes—even written several c...
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions...
Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce debate over academic freedom and ...
Introducing “Fenix and the Firework Fliers” by Once Upon a Dance, Christine Herbert and Scott Partridge Embark on a thrilling adventure with Fenix, a ...
About the Book: Seven infants, conceived artificially aboard a rotating space habitat as an experiment to populate the solar system. A fugitive mother...
About the Book: Escape to Tasmania they said … But what was supposed to be a dream for Ric Peters and Elaina Williams has turned into a nightmare. The...
About the Book: After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next ...
About the Book: "Lonely Riders" is a gripping novel by Michael D. Dennis set in Los Angeles, following the tumultuous life of Kyle Whalen. Kyle, a hus...
About the Book: Rowen Hart has been raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Caroli...
About the Book: Ride The Snake Road is a science fiction novel that tells the story of scavenge man Beamo Roamer. Beamo gets his eyes on an ancient mi...
Book Summary: Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his pain—except for the one thing that might work. Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the s...
This delightful and humorous book will engage young readers as they begin to sound out words on their own and help make a lazy cat get some exercise. ...
Stephanie Plum counts on her routine while Lula counts on her morning doughnuts, but when they arrive at the office, they’re shocked to find that it h...
Learning that people are different is an important intangible that young children will learn, and this book approaches the subject up front and in an ...
Do you want to learn more about Asian American culture? Do you like Chinese food, K-pop, or Japanese anime? Read this book to learn more about the his...
Meet Marya Khan. Marya is turning eight and she really, really wants a big henna party for her birthday. Her rich neighbor, Alexa, always throws big p...
Albie on His Way is the story of a mouse named Albie who is called to the king to deliver an important message to another king because his king had he...
The prolific and relevant poet J.R. Solonche has given me the gift of writing “how I read poems.” The sense of playfulness is evident in all his writi...
January 1942 marks the beginning of Avis Montgomery’s term as librarian of the town library, pressed into service by her brother, who is heading off t...
In 2003, the Oakland Police Department was placed under a Consent Decree wherein the department was subject to the supervision of a third party acting...
Sam’s mom has A House with Good Bones. It also has a beautiful rose garden and possibly a ghost. Vultures are watching the house and clearly her mom i...
Cleopatra Selene was the only surviving daughter of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII and Roman Triumvir Marc Anthony. In Cleopatra’s Daughter, Jane Drayco...
When tragedy strikes the Dickinson family, teenage Isabel runs away from their small apartment in San Francisco to Yosemite. There, she expects to fin...
Linh is just a little girl looking for some blueberries to have her friends and family over for some yummy food. She explores her entire garden and re...
In New Orleans, an anti-magic city, twins Chris and Clem are stuck caring for their ill mother in a place that despises who they are. The twins are th...
How would a town without punctuation sound? The sound might make you scream! Well, the village of Babble couldn’t scream or ask why not before a young...
Known for its fertile soil and its abundant supply of natural resources, Ukraine is a nation inhabited by more than forty million people. The Ukrainia...
Ready…Set…Frog! is an adorable story that teaches young readers and listeners a valuable lesson. Frog is a youngster who becomes very excited when his...
In Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, debut author Rita Chang-Eppig picks apart the legacy of power and examines it against the contexts of patriarchal ...
When Charlie meets Emily while on summer vacation, the young girls immediately bond over scary stories. Emily is afraid of her father, so Charlie make...
Can a fifty-two year-old woman be the central character in a coming-of-age novel? In skillful hands, she can. Claire is in desperate need of resolving...
Language has its own personality, one that adapts and evolves to meet the pressures of its time but has the binding power to attract and cohere its sp...
Bret Easton Ellis has been avoiding his past as if it were the plague. In his senior year at the Buckley School, friendships were tested, relationship...
Glitterland is hands down one of the best romances I’ve read this year. I don’t know how I went so long without reading any of Alexis Hall’s books! Th...
Norene Paulson writes picture books that celebrate friendship, acceptance, and inclusion, and Nila’s Perfect Coat exemplifies the generosity of helpin...
Children and adults of all ages will find great joy in reading this fantastic adventure story by author Steven Joseph. Snoodles in Space tells the sto...
Mighty Bad Land is an excellent memoir. Author Bruce Luyendyk, geologist and namesake of Antarctica’s Mount Luyendyk, writes of his and his team’s dan...
Could adolescent high school jealousy in South Bend, Indiana, be the catalyst for a vicious murder in Paris, France? After learning of the murder of a...
A lot of young people would love to be able to draw, but they are intimidated by the idea of it. They are afraid it is too hard and takes a very speci...
Acclaimed author Larry Alexander brings readers a riveting account in 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa. Told from the American and Japanese perspectives, c...
After her parents’ die in a car crash, Ivy Zimmerman travels across the country to stay with her father’s distant family before an international Menno...
Gemma isn’t a stranger to investigating mysteries but this is her first time investigating a potentially haunted house. Scarlet House has a long histo...
Readers who love complicated stories about parallel lives will be absorbed by these stories of two women who ultimately share the same destiny. I love...
Just a small hole, punched in the rock, enabled archeologist and eminent Egyptologist Howard Carter to glimpse the treasures soon to be revealed. And ...
With her new book, Pamela Billings Ewen brings us back to a time in France before World War I, when the lovers of wealthy and influential men went out...
Book Summary: Ms. Pretty Rickey: The Street Sweeper is a Force to Be Reckoned with, Infamous Poetry about Chief Officials, Freedom from War, Dirty Mon...
Book Summary: A lavish, snowy weekend in New Hampshire ends in tragedy – and, a few months later, one of the party-goers is found dead. As famed podca...
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Don’t run too fast. Don’t get your feet wet. Do what the “good” bea...
Book Summary: Captain Ethan Evans has been running from his for two years. Europe is a big place. He and his outlaw army of ex-soldiers are good at su...