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The Bear That Loved Pink by Susan Marie Chapman (Author), Maria Vyasene (Illustrator)

A charming, fun-filled, and pink-tastic adventure! Chapman’s latest picture book finds humour and heart in a young bear’s unwavering devotion to her favourite colour. Little Bear has a passion for pink, and her sunny Florida surroundings happily accommodate it. Pink…
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Glo-kids by Jane Haltmaier

A dazzling adventure with heart, humour, and cosmic intrigue. Haltmaier delivers a lively, imaginative science-fiction tale that finds extraordinary possibilities in the struggles of adolescence. Fifteen-year-old Ellie Wentworth is tired of starting over. Her military family’s latest move to Massachusetts…
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DO THE HARD THINGS: The Key to a Fulfilling Life by Garnet Morris

A bold, invigorating, and refreshingly honest roadmap to lasting fulfillment. In this insightful, practical guide, seasoned entrepreneur Morris makes a persuasive case for choosing the difficult road when it matters most. Drawing on more than five decades in business and…
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The December 1st Fairy by Karen Charlins and Megan Jordan

A festive, feel-good treat bursting with Christmas cheer. Nutmeg, a spirited little elf, has a problem with Christmas tradition in Charlins and Jordan’s delightful tale. Why should children wait until Christmas morning for all the excitement? Working in Santa’s workshop,…
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Lion’s Den by Dhan SG

A dark, propulsive, and thoroughly addictive tale of family, faith, and power. SG launches the Kingdoms of God and Men series with an ambitious political fantasy steeped in dynastic rivalry, religious tension, forbidden desire, and the complicated bonds of family.…
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All There Is to Know by Ron Schultz

Bold, irreverent, and fiercely imaginative. Schultz delivers a sharp, searching novel about art, belief, and the uneasy relationship between freedom and control. Artist Jake Elliot has spent much of his life looking for “Something Other,” a presence that might answer…
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The Suicide Council (Before God Decides) by Victer Hugo Basurco

An inventive, moving look at the questions suicide leaves behind. Basurco takes on suicide, grief, and divine judgment in this unusual work of speculative spiritual fiction. In his imagined Heaven, God creates the Suicide Council, a group of prophets and…
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Influenced: Serenity Acres: Where Secrets Barely Stay Hidden by Crystal Quast

Sharp, sinister, and savagely funny. Quast’s spirited novel blends social-media satire with domestic drama and a steadily darkening mystery. Brook Salinger has spent most of her young life in front of a camera, trapped on her family’s wildly successful social-media…
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The Hand Grenade Division by Michael A. Dorosh

Taut, gripping, and haunting; a searing tale of loyalty and survival. Dorosh delivers an immersive, morally complex portrait of an ordinary man caught inside an extraordinary historical catastrophe. In 1936, eighteen-year-old Henry Martens leaves Calgary for Germany, hoping to pursue…
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HOMES by Hayden Thompson

A thoughtful, deeply human journey through love, loss, and belonging… Thompson’s absorbing novel traces one man’s search for connection across continents and decades. The story follows Dr. George Harrington, a single father who leaves Paris with his twelve-year-old son, Hugo,…
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The Sassy Snapper by Adam Moryto (Author), Meritxell Andreu (Illustrations)

A colorful undersea caper with plenty of snap! Moryto’s compelling picture book takes young readers beneath the waves for a spirited adventure about courage, friendship, and the confidence to embrace what makes one different. When Curious Clam’s treasured pearl disappears,…
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Pareidolia: Illusions, Deceptions, and Murder by J. Herman Kleiger

A wickedly absorbing mind-bender where seeing is anything but believing. Kleiger delivers a dark, intricately plotted psychological thriller that makes uncertainty itself a source of menace. Disgraced former FBI agent Nicola Kitts is barely holding on. Haunted by combat trauma,…
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Echoes of Truth: A Jake Scott Mystery by Barry Finlay

A wickedly entertaining ride with plenty of psychological bite. Finlay’s compelling latest turns a decades-old double murder into a smart exploration of memory, art, and buried secrets. When artist Robin Underhill produces a disturbing painting of her parents’ Halloween murders,…
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Point First by Nannette Potter

Taut, twisty, and thoroughly absorbing. Potter’s gripping thriller brings a professional knife-thrower into a complex story of family secrets, political ambition, and corruption. Genevieve “Blade” Broussard arrives in Charleston searching for the truth about her newly discovered, powerful paternal family,…
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A Pigeon in the Pen (Marshall Morris Is at It Again) by Robert John DeLuca

A high-stakes romp with heart, humor, and nerve. DeLuca’s gripping, fast-paced novel takes a reckless but bighearted teenager deep into a dangerous world of drugs, deception, and difficult choices. Marshall Morris has a habit of rushing toward trouble before common…
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The Bear & Cat Chronicles by Kris Neely

A charming philosophical gem with plenty of heart. Neely’s delightful collection of brief, interconnected stories explores Zen and Taoist wisdom through the everyday experiences of two unlikely friends. In “The Buried Seed,” Bear’s impatience with a slow-growing seed becomes a…
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Fire’s Ally  D. M. Kannapan

A wonderfully strange, deeply immersive fantasy of discovery and survival…  Kannapan delivers an ambitious, richly imagined YA fantasy where science, survival, and social upheaval collide.. The story follows Eleg, a quiet young Urmettian scientist who has spent years studying the…
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Blueland by Robert Jaxx

A fierce, cinematic, hard-edged Western. In Jaxx’s sweeping historical Western, the end of the Civil War sends Union captain Alden Zur and three battle-scarred comrades toward an uncertain future. Reunited with his family, Alden heads west, hoping to put war…
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Cooking Up Magick: The Dell Chronicles Book One by HL Bernabe

A spellbinding fantasy feast with plenty of heart… Bernabe’s series opener in the Dell Chronicles serves up an ambitious blend of cozy fantasy, sprawling adventure, romance, and high-stakes epic fantasy, anchored by an endearing heroine whose greatest strengths are compassion…
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The Valhalla Project (A Dan Burnett Private Detective Mystery/Thiller) by Larry Terhaar

Taut, timely, and impossible to put down. Terhaar’s gripping latest pits a dogged investigator against a dangerous web of murder, money, and corporate power. Nineteen-year-old David Jacobs, an autistic accounting protégé, is walking his dog in Pelham Bay Park when…