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CATS: True Tails And Life Lessons From A Furry Companion by Pamela Wallin
January 25, 2024
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CATS: True Tails And Life Lessons From A Furry Companion by Pamela Wallin

About the Book: Cats: Tails and Life Lessons from A Purring Companion is an affectionate and insightful exploration of the deep connections between cats and their human companions. Through a series of...

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These Things Happen: A Novel by Michael Eon
January 14, 2024
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These Things Happen: A Novel by Michael Eon

Book Summary: Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his pain—except for the one thing that might work. Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the shadow of his tyrannical father and against the bac...

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Clean Sweep: A Novel by E. B. Lee
December 12, 2023
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Clean Sweep: A Novel by E. B. Lee

Book Summary:  Retirement was supposed to bring her time to relax. Instead, she would find a purpose. Selling her Madison Avenue ad agency for billions, Carli Morris, the self-assured career woman, pu...

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Mary Whitcombe by Valerie Nifora
December 11, 2023
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Mary Whitcombe by Valerie Nifora

Book Summary: It's the turn of the 19th century, and Mary Whitcombe lives in blissful ignorance of the wider world. An orphan born into wealth, her guardian sends her away to a convent, where she grap...

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Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship by Julie Ryan McGue
December 10, 2023
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Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship by Julie Ryan McGue

Book Summary: Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the bound...

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The Advent House by Tim Jorgenson
December 9, 2023
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The Advent House by Tim Jorgenson

Book Summary: Gabriela never imagined her promises to a dying Adriana would entangle her with the state security service. But working at CubaTur she knew the ordinary could mask the extraordinary and ...

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Love: A Novel of Grief and Desire by Jefferson R. Blackburn-Smith
December 8, 2023
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Love: A Novel of Grief and Desire by Jefferson R. Blackburn-Smith

Book Summary: After the death of his wife, Ed Gideon survived the bone-numbing loss and loneliness by narrowing his focus to only work and his two college-age daughters, who are also struggling with t...

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The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric City by Robert Brighton
December 7, 2023
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The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric City by Robert Brighton

Book Summary: Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York—Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown...

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Who is Anna Stenberg? by Tracey Norman
December 6, 2023
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Who is Anna Stenberg? by Tracey Norman

Book Summary: When her murderous father escapes from an institution, a young girl is forced to flee to safety with secretive pickpocket Anna. Disguised as a boy called Viktor, and drawn into Anna's my...

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Lightning Bugs And Aliens: A Small Town Coming-Of-Age-Story by Daniel Babka
December 5, 2023
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Lightning Bugs And Aliens: A Small Town Coming-Of-Age-Story by Daniel Babka

Book Summary:  During the summer of 1960, five imaginative, adventurous 13-year-olds, free from computers, cell phones and social media, suddenly must grapple with the loss of childhood security in th...

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