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Our Amazing Minds: Celebrating Differences and Sharing the Adventure of Autism by Jeffery May, Laura May

Engaging, heartfelt, and authentically inclusive.  Jeffery May and Laura May offer a candid, heartfelt glimpse into the day four Autistic friends explore a children’s museum for the first time in their engaging debut picture book. Through Jackson’s voice, readers step…
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The Cutters by Brad Collis

Spare, unsentimental, and deeply resonant; a layered portrait of resilience. Collis’s latest is a quietly powerful novel of postwar survival set against the harsh beauty of rural Western Australia. Two years after returning from Vietnam, Matthew Walker is still caught…
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A Seal Upon the Heart by Arian Hatefi

Lyrical, emotional, and gripping. In Hatefi’s heartfelt middle-grade adventure, two siblings risk everything to save the person they love most. Eleven-year-old Leonardo and eight-year-old Leili’s lives change forever when they learn their father has a terminal illness. Rumors of a…
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At the Ragtag Hotel: The Elevator Ride by Freya Novak

A cheerful adventure crammed with giggles, greetings, and goofy charm… Novak makes her debut with this lively, laugh-filled ride that celebrates friendship, diversity, and the joy of squeezing in together. Who knew an elevator ride could feel like rush hour…
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To Save a Life by Larry Zuckerman

Visceral, moving, and unforgettable. Zuckerman’s latest captures the grit and hope of Jewish immigrants fighting to carve out new lives in the cramped tenements and unforgiving streets of New York’s Lower East Side. Malka Kaminsky slips out of Grodno with…
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Where the Mountains Whisper: A Novel by Jenny Cafaro

Atmospheric, evocative, and emotionally charged… Set against the rugged backdrop of Eastern Kentucky, Cafaro’s compelling novel follows a young girl’s fight to claim her voice.  Growing up under the weight of her father’s drinking, childhood in Coon Ridge for Flora…
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Confusion Has Its Cost by Jim Lively

Haunting, cerebral, and unsettling… Lively’s latest is a slow-burn psychological mystery that explores the blurry line between reality and delusion. When Dallas attorney Simon Steed is hired by a mysterious woman, Neva Storm, to probate her father’s will, he’s drawn…
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Lexi the Coonhound Visits Grandpa by Meg Martin

A charming, sound-filled adventure… Martin captures the quiet courage of trying something new in her tender tale of separation, trust, and unexpected joy. When Grandpa arrives for a visit, Lexi can hardly contain her joy. Her paws TAP, TAP, TAP,…
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Lexi the Coonhound Finds a New Home! by Meg Martin

A gentle, heartfelt story of big feelings and new beginnings… Martin’s tender debut in the Lexi the Coonhound series traces the emotional journey of a rescue pup. Shy and soft-eyed, Lexi the coonhound spends her nights curled up on her…
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Attraction and Repulsion by Robert Scott Leyse

Playful, poetic, and unexpectedly intense. Leyse charts the emotional fallout of first love in Paris in his playful novel. Three twenty-somethings, William, Christina, and Pascale, land in Paris for six unfiltered weeks of rooftop parties, cemetery crawls, and wine-soaked debates…
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Memoir of an Innocent Brat by Aaron Wang

Bracing, darkly funny, and deeply felt. In Wang’s blistering debut, a queer millennial’s search for freedom spirals into chaos, fame, and a murder charge. When Pete Chan, a self-aware and pop-savvy Chinese American in his late twenties, impulsively quits his…
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Parker the Homeless Dog: My First Ever Home by Bob Merz (Author), Debbie Hefke (Illustrator)

Tender, playful, and deeply moving… It’s not easy being the new pup on the block. Merz captures the quiet courage of a rescue dog navigating rejection and kindness in this heartfelt story. Parker’s got a big heart and a bumpy…
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An Ocean Life: An oceanic thriller  by T.R. Cotwell

Quiet, introspective, and elegantly written. Cotwell’s striking debut blends emotional intensity with psychological insight, tracing a man’s physical and emotional drift toward reckoning and renewal. Mark, a middle-aged tech entrepreneur, has spent years chasing the elusive promise of startup success,…
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Elisabeth’s Miracle by Vanessa Siso

Whimsical, heartfelt, and faith-filled… Siso weaves scripture and real-life emotion into a tender story about embracing what makes us unique. Elisabeth loves her sock puppets and the pretend worlds she creates with her best friend, Samuel. But when a puppet…
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Of Wind and Wolves (The Steppe Saga Book 1) by J. M. Elliott

Brutal, poetic, and unforgettable… A warrior princess, a scarred prince, and an ancient oath intersect in Elliott’s myth-drenched story of survival, selfhood, and sacrifice on the Scythian frontier. Anaiti, a hamazon trained in the ways of her mother’s people, is…
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Can Pandas Be Koalas Too?: A Story About Identity, Belonging, and Self-Acceptance by Jane Xu (Author), Sang Oh (Illustrator)

Quietly powerful and wonderfully wholesome. In Xu’s heartfelt story, a young panda must decide for herself who she is. Pandy has always felt like a Koala—she plays koala games, sings koala songs, and fits right in at her koala school.…
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Betrayal of Trust (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 9) by Geoffrey M. Cooper

A tense thriller with bite and brains… Cooper’s ninth Brad Parker and Karen Richmond thriller blends scientific intrigue with a chilling revenge plot. Dr. Eric Salton, praised for a breakthrough lung cancer drug, is savagely murdered. Another dies in a…
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Summer Solstice by Kelly Williams

Thoughtful, compassionate, and quietly profound… A lonely boy and a broken bird find their way forward in Williams’s graceful, moving middle-grade novel. After a car crash kills his father, twelve-year-old Elliot Blake retreats into silence, burdened by guilt he can’t…
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Thorns in the Rose by Rebecca Torrellas

Powerful and intimate… Torrellas charts nearly thirty years of emotional survival, raw heartbreak, and eventual healing in this poignant collection. The book unfolds in thematic chapters, each capturing a stage in the poet’s emotional evolution. The early poems, filled with…
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She Who Hunts: The Tale of T’lejhánka by David Tocher

Beautifully told, thematically rich, and quietly devastating; a stunner. A soul-hungry spider-spirit stalks the forests of Gitlu’quam Island in Tocher’s elegant, elemental dark fable. A group of children, orphaned by the monstrous T’lejhánkha, a creature who feeds not only on…