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Little Bear and the Big Hole by Jennifer Seal (Author), Mirjam Siim (Illustrator)

A quiet, achingly powerful story of loss, recovery, and the comfort of simply being there. Grief is a big hole. At least, that’s how it feels for Little Bear, whose Papa Bear has died, leaving behind a vast, invisible absence…
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Dark Elf’s Snare by Armanis Ar-feinial

An emotionally charged, morally complex fantasy that blends passion with pathos and seduction with sorrow. In Ar-feinial’s brooding dark fantasy, an elven bodyguard’s mission spirals into a battle with grief, desire, and supernatural forces. Haunted by the disappearance of his…
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Domesteaders: Cloud 8.5 by Curtis Palmer

Ambitious, unwieldy, and unforgettable… Palmer’s wildly ambitious novel is a literary experiment brimming with wit, rage, memory, and socio-political critique. In a future buckling under the weight of climate collapse, Beavan Broderick, once a fringe beaver ethologist and now a…
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Reciprocity: A Third JD Cordell Action Thriller by D.C. Gilbert

A taut, morally complex story that hits with precision and heart. In Gilbert’s third JD Cordell novel, a team of former U.S. military operatives takes on a ruthless human trafficking network in the lawless underworld of Manila. When two young…
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The Best Worst Christmas Ever by Thomas J. Thorson

Deeply human and quietly magical; a triumph… Thorson turns a blizzard, a blackout, and a botched vacation into a warm, imaginative reawakening of what family and Christmas really mean in his compelling YA fantasy. The Natale family’s long-awaited tropical escape…
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The Wanderer’s Notebook Volume III by Christopher Emrys

Deeply rewarding and emotionally resonant… Emrys continues his thoughtful, low-key epic series with a collection of stories that favors intimacy over spectacle. In “Discovery,” a wood elf scout named Ymladdwr unearths a mind-reactive portal in the wilderness. Alongside Gwyddoniaeth, a…
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Lexi the Coonhound Does Yoga! by Meg Martin

A playful, zoomies-filled fun… Martin’s lively book blends movement, mindfulness, and family fun through the joyful chaos of a zoomie-prone dog and her curious human, Zoey. When Mom begins her backyard yoga session, Zoey and Lexi are all energy and…
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Shades of Yellow by Talia Orbach

A standout debut… Set in a quiet Connecticut town, Orbach’s heartfelt middle-grade novel follows three fourteen-year-olds as they face pressure, loss, and change—and discover that friendship might be the one thing they can count on. Cassidy is used to moving.…
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Switch by Lisa Towles

A taut, high-intelligence thriller with real emotional teeth… A wounded ex-CIA operative learns that healing, like espionage, requires ruthless precision in Towles’s explosive finale in the E&A Investigations series. Still recovering from a hit-and-run and holed up in her family’s…
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The Hypomanic Toolbox: A Business Parable to Revolutionize Your Business Using Bipolar-Inspired Strategies by Todd Hagopian

Bold, unconventional and raw… Hagopian’s business guide isn’t your typical business book. It begins not with vision, but with a confession. Hagopian, a high-achieving executive, lays bare the cost of his undiagnosed bipolar disorder, including arrests, burnout, near-suicide. Instead of…
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Colorsss by Deborah Hutchinson

Vibrant, educational, and fun… Hutchinson’s latest slithers in with a playful hiss and a bold mission: to turn fear into fascination. The book begins with a white egg, unfolding into a spectrum of snakes—red, orange, yellow, even pink—each real, striking,…
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Fanny Berk Strikes Back by Avi Luxenburg

Taut, tense, and emotionally charged… Luxenburg’s compelling coming-of-age novel dives deep into the complexities of trauma, resilience, and the painful loneliness of being different. Fanny Berk, 15, is a karate student, a self-taught intellectual trapped in a stifling high school…
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Journey to the Dark Galaxy (The Dark Galaxy Series Book 2) by Hannah D. State

A vivid, thought-provoking SF story with heart and high stakes… A telepathic teen faces interplanetary threats and internal reckoning in State’s emotionally charged sequel to The Dark Galaxy Series. Fourteen-year-old Sam Sanderson is drafted by GAIA, an interplanetary alliance, after…
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Chasing Czars: Book 3 of The Cleopatra Chronicles by Tina Sloan

A high-stakes romantic thriller wrapped in luxury, loss, and deadly secrets… A glamorous, unabashedly sentimental spy novel set in the glittering ski resorts of St. Moritz, Sloan’s third installment of The Chasing Cleopatra Chronicles offers danger, desire, and a heroine…
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LOSING AUSTIN by Michael J. Bowler

A raw and emotionally layered novel that blends psychological realism with speculative mystery. A troubled teen searches for his missing brother while grappling with guilt, grief, and the possibility of the impossible in Bowler’s compelling YA novel. Fourteen-year-old Colton Bowman…
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Fighting Gravity by Michael Godin

Raw, unfiltered, and tragically hilarious… Godin’s latest novel is a darkly funny, emotionally honest portrait of a man on the verge as he tries to find solid ground again. New Orleans plastic surgeon Nick Jordan seems to have it all—success,…
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The Manse of Chasconny by Gabbiano Gatto

Dark, cerebral, and unforgiving… Gatto’s latest novel is a haunting, richly imagined political gothic tale set in a Europe on the verge of collapse. Salbador, a repressed caretaker in an isolated coastal manse, grows increasingly unstable under the cruel authority…
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This Stops With Me: Recovering From the Abuse of a Narcissistic Mother and Making Sure You Don’t Become One by Louise Grayhurst

A deeply moving, intellectually grounded, and emotionally brave work… Grayhurst delivers a raw, searingly honest account of what it means to be raised by a narcissistic mother and the long, difficult path toward breaking free and healing. Grayhurst’s voice is…
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Time Travel Swap by Connie Lacy

Daringly imaginative and deeply rooted in human connection… Lacy offers a refreshingly grounded take on time travel, fusing emotional realism with speculative fiction to explore identity, ambition, and connection in her latest novel. The story follows Carly Munro, a rising…