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I Have Danced With Angels: Selected Love Poems by Joe Giampaolo

A lush, luminous collection that explores love in all its beauty, complexity, and ache. Giampaolo gathers a life shaped by longing, beauty, and emotional intensity in his latest collection. Drawn from four earlier books, these poems trace the shifting landscapes…
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Legacy by The Chronicler

A gripping, character-driven saga of loyalty, power, and awakening. The arrival of a cosmic enemy forces an untrusted outsider into reluctant leadership in this assured fusion of epic fantasy and science fiction. Dark Angelus Everlast, feared as much as he…
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Bye-bye, Mama’s Milk by Elizabeth K. Arleo, MD

A gentle, reassuring story about growing up and letting go. Arleo’s Bye-bye, Mama’s Milk approaches the weaning process with sensitivity and clarity, giving voice to a milestone that children’s books frequently overlook. After nursing throughout her baby and toddler years,…
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Compulsory Figures by John Barton

A quietly devastating, deeply elegant poetry collection. A celebrated Canadian poet and former editor, John Barton turns to the terrain of his own past to examine how memory, loss, and lineage shape a life. Born in Edmonton during the early…
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All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly

A haunting, luminous poetry collection. Award-winning poet and essayist Streetly charts a life changed by loss, memory, and the magnetic pull of the Pacific Northwest in her compelling latest book. Six years after her adult stepsons vanished with their boat…
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Mortal Revenge by Ana Manwaring, Fernando León Torrens

Intense, harrowing, and profoundly gripping. Ana Manwaring and Fernando León Torrens deliver a taut, hard-hitting thriller that drops one man into a world where trust is dangerous and survival is never guaranteed. What should have been a simple visit home…
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The BIENNALE BOOK: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art by Desmond Daniels

A penetrating, ambitious look at the biennales that define modern art’s imagination. Daniels’s debut in The Biennale Book is a tightly argued, sprawling study that lays bare the machinery of global art exhibitions and why they still matter in a…
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Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and Recovery by Maura Casey

Genuine, unflinching, and quietly absorbing… In her debut, Casey delivers a steady, clear-eyed portrait of a childhood defined by poverty, alcoholism, and the relentless weight of chronic illness. The youngest of six in a working-class Irish Catholic family, Casey grows…
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Rise of the TechPals (A Boy and His D.O.G. Book 2) by Jordan Hines

A fast-paced, inventive sequel packed with humor, teamwork, and escalating stakes. In Hines’s hilarious, high-energy sequel to A Boy and His D.O.G. series, Blu and his loyal robot partner are thrust back into action when supposedly defunct TechPals begin glitching…
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Coldwire: The StrangeLoom Trilogy #1 by Chloe Gong

Gritty, clever, and gripping. Gong’s latest is a sharp, immersive dystopian thriller where loyalty fractures, rebellion brews, and two intertwined destinies race toward a collision that could upend their world. In a future divided between a pristine virtual realm and…
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The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

A sharp and spirited gothic delight. Meyers delivers a lively blend of gothic mystery and comedic horror. Though descended from a long line of powerful witches, Mallory Fontaine’s only real talent is seeing ghosts—a gift that rarely pays the bills.…
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FINDING GOD IN VEGAS: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening By Donald Harold Young

A candid, gracefully written memoir of faith, identity, and hard-won peace. Young’s debut is an intimate and deeply affecting memoir that follows one man’s fall into spiritual emptiness and his slow, hard-won rediscovery of love and faith. Young begins his…
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River Becomes Shadow (Taggak Journey, #2) by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak

A haunting, lyrical dystopia pulsing with faith, fury, and fragile hope. The second novel in Smith-Nochasak’s Taggak Journey trilogy finds River stepping beyond her grandmother’s world to fulfill her destiny of renewal. Having left her grandmother Flo’s swamp behind, River…
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A Bountiful Silence: & Other Poems by John Muro

Quiet, lyrical, and deeply reverent. Muro offers a luminous meditation on silence, memory, and the natural world in his latest book. Organized in three movements; The Seasons, The Sea and Sky, and The Heart and Hands, the poems move with…
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The Last Ghost: An Unexpected Occurrence by D.E. Ring

An elegant, haunting novel of quiet suspense, rich character work, and lingering philosophical depth. In Ring’s latest character-driven novel, everyday experience becomes a thoughtful exploration of loss, ambition, and the boundaries of reason. Joshua Stewart’s life seems to be perfect:…
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The Thirty-Fifth Page by Lya Badgley

Layered, moody, and deeply immersive. In Badgley’s taut literary thriller, an art conservator’s research draws her into a deadly game of history and myth. With war creeping toward Sarajevo, American conservator Miri Adler sets out to document the fabled Sarajevo…
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The Lie That Changed Everything: The Memoir of a Little Rascal (Confessions from the Silence Book 1) by Gary Trew

Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. In his compelling memoir, Trew delivers a blisteringly funny and unsettling portrait of a childhood forged from mischief, trauma, and a haunting lie. From the opening pages, when he describes his chaotic breech birth and…
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The Robe of Rainbow Feathers by Diane Arkenstone

Potent and beautifully told. Arkenstone crafts a luminous tale where nature, spirit, and perspective converge in a tender, deeply personal fable. The story traces a girl whose bond with the natural world shows her that love and gratitude outshine fear.…
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Matthew (A Los Angeles Quakes Hockey Series, #3) by Alisa Jean

A gritty, heartfelt, and unapologetically sexy romance that delivers both the sizzle of forbidden love and the ache of loss.  Jean’s third entry in her Los Angeles Quakes Hockey Series is a bruising, heartfelt romance that finds surprising tenderness beneath…
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Luka (Los Angeles Quakes Hockey Series, #2) by Alisa Jean

Equal parts heat and heart. In her second Los Angeles Quakes novel, Jean delivers a powerful story of scars, strength, and love’s ability to mend what’s broken. Once the dazzling golden boy of the L.A. Quakes, Luka Ribič is left…