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December 18, 2024 Blog

Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank

Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in a village called Vereiteln Dorf. There, she b...

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July 18, 2023 Blog

Winterland: A Novel

As a child, Anya uses gymnastics to escape the stark, wavering darkness and cold of her remote Siberian outpost. Talented and driven, she is selected for a grueling gymnastics scho...

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July 18, 2023 Blog

Vespertine

Artemisia is a Gray Sister, working alongside fellow nuns as they prepare dead bodies for their final rest. If they fail to do so, the dead will rise again and attack the living. A...

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July 18, 2023 Blog

Through the North Pole Snow

Through the North Pole is an adorable story of a tiny artic fox that finds a nice warm house at the North Pole with food and a jolly old soul. The old man slept a lot and then fill...

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July 14, 2023 Blog

Central Places: A Novel

Audrey Zhou is living her dream life in New York. With a successful job and soon to marry her dashing fiancé Ben, she returns home to Illinois to introduce Ben to her parents. Upon...

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July 13, 2023 Blog

Into the West

A story about the founding of Mercedes Lackey’s most well-known world, Valdemar, Into the West is about an ethical leader, Baron Kordas Valdemar, guiding his people into the wilder...

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July 13, 2023 Blog

Shot Clock

The Sabres, two-time AAU National Champions, led by basketball phenom Dante Jones, are holding their annual tryouts. Recently, Dante was shot by a police officer in Oasis Springs, ...

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July 13, 2023 Blog

Kimchi, Kimchi Every Day

A cute little girl talks about how she likes to eat kimchi every day, and she lists out the different ways she will eat her kimchi during the days of the week. Whether it us eating...

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July 12, 2023 Blog

Beardstown

In the early 1800s, Thomas Beard bought a plot of land in what would later become Illinois. Over two centuries later, the town he founded still exists, having withstood many of the...

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July 12, 2023 Blog

Self-Portrait with Nothing

Self-Portrait with Nothing is a glance into the multiverse, an attempt to articulate the endless permutations of identity, loss, and love. The story follows Pepper Rafferty, a fore...

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July 7, 2023 Blog

The Sevenfold Hunters

Abyan Guled is a member of the Sevenfold, an elite squad of alien hunters training at Carlisle Academy. Her only goal is graduating with first place— but when one of her team membe...

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July 7, 2023 Blog

The Name Game

The Name Game is the story of a girl who is sitting at home, feeling bored. Soon she notices a bird outside her window, and she wants to know all about it. The bird talks to her an...

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July 7, 2023 Blog

Blue Box, Vol. 1

Reaching the nationals is going to be tough for badminton player Taiki Inomata. All he wants is to become better at badminton. Meanwhile, Chinatsu Kano from the girls’ basketball t...

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July 6, 2023 Blog

The Deluge

In 2013, scientist Tony Pietrus measures the rate of methane hydrates in the atmosphere. He is looking at the possibilities associated with the next extinction-level event. Shane i...

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July 6, 2023 Blog

The Hero of This Book

This strange and beautiful memoir follows the narrator on her path of grief and reflection as she walks around London. She last visited the city with her mother, who has since pass...

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July 6, 2023 Blog

Blood Circus

In a not-too-distant future, Ava lives in the North American Territory, on one side of a military fence. This fence separates humans from the Klujns, a humanoid species that every ...

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July 5, 2023 Blog

Blue Box, Vol. 2

Taiki Inomata has always loved badminton, and he really wants to go to the nationals. Then there’s Chinatsu Kano, a basketball player who shares the same dream as him. When a turn ...

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July 5, 2023 Blog

The Scroll of Chaos

The Scroll of Chaos is about a young Chinese girl named Astrid Xu who has always wanted to help her mother escape her depression. When she finds the Scroll of Chaos with her little...

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July 4, 2023 Blog

The Trackers: A Novel

Charles Frazier’s name is synonymous with sweeping historical fiction that brings seemingly lost worlds to life: Cold Mountain, Nightwoods, and more. His latest, The Trackers, has ...

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June 30, 2023 Blog

Izzy Paints

Izzy loves the art that she sees at an art museum. She decides that she would like to create her own art. So Izzy finds inspiration in the world around her to create her own art. I...

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June 30, 2023 Blog

Fox and Bear

Fox and Bear live happily in the forest. Bear wants to live a simple life, but Fox is very handy and creative. This leads to Fox creating more inventions, which Bear is unsure of, ...

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June 27, 2023 Blog

Gillespie Field Groove

Rolly Waters is listening to a story from his newest client, a nurse named Lucinda Rhodes. Rolly previously made Lucinda’s acquaintance when a previous case of Rolly’s nearly kille...

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June 27, 2023 Blog

Destiny Springs

Destiny Springs by Elliott Foster is the third fiction novel within his latest trilogy. This novel picks up from the award-winning Reckoning Waves and follows Corey Fischer after f...

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June 16, 2023 Blog

Finally Seen

Ten-year-old Lina Gao last saw her parents and little sister five years ago. Since then, she’s been living in Beijing with her grandmother. Until now. Her parents are finally ready...

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June 9, 2023 Blog

My Last Innocent Year: A Novel

Midway through her senior year of college, Isabel finds herself enmeshed in a sexual encounter that she feels, in hindsight, was not entirely consensual. Her activist roommate publ...

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June 9, 2023 Blog

A Touch of Moonlight: A Novel

Every full moon, Larimar Cintrón’s naturally curly hair straightens itself out. Her ankles twist themselves around until her feet face backward. She can run so fast that she’s flyi...

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May 21, 2023 Blog

Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall

Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the p...

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April 28, 2023 Blog

My Expansion by Nancy Manet

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” bears are doing. Never stray from...

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