Erin Moon
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There is a world behind the canvas. Past the flat façade and the crackling paint is a realm where art lives, breathes, creates, and destroys.
Claudia Miravista loves art but only sees what is on the surface-until the Dutch boy Pim appears in the painting in her room. Pim has been trapped in the world behind the canvas for centuries by a power-hungry witch, and he now believes that Claudia is his only hope for escape. Fueled by the help of an ancient...
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Reminiscent of the stories and styles of Harper Lee, Sue Monk Kidd, and Jan Karon, Pam Webber's The Wiregrass is an extraordinary tale about a magical time in an ordinary place full of lovable and unlovable characters. Infused with laughter, tears, love, loss, and hope, the story follows fourteen-year-old cousins Nettie, J.D. Eric, and Sam as they navigate the summer of their discontent, struggle with the physical and emotional turbulence of...
43) Evening: a novel
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"Two sisters, lost youth, and youthful obsessions; organized by day as the family sits shiva, Evening unfolds the paradoxes of love, ambition, siblings, and the way the past continues to inflect the present, sometimes against our will. In her thirties, Eve is summoned home by her distraught family to mourn the premature death of her sister, Tam, a return that becomes an unexpected encounter with the past. Eve bears the burden of a secret: Two weeks...
44) Gone for gouda
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"Yarrow Glen's newest cheese shop, Curds & Whey, has a lot on its plate, but cheesemonger Willa Bauer relishes a challenge. The French-inspired cheese shop is playing host to celebrity vegan chef Phoebe Winston. But when photos surface that prove this vegan influencer is a carnivore, Phoebe is murdered. Willa's employee, the affable Archie, was the last one to see Phoebe alive and the first person the police suspect. To clear his name Willa must uncover...
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A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up.
Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the "application whisperer" is the golden ticket to success. Working one-on-one with burned-out, helicopter-parented kids, she can make Harvard a reality. Her phone number is a national secret. Her students
...46) Thunderlight
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Dragonian volume 2
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"Dragons, all this may seem like old news, but for seventeen year-old Elena Watkins the world of Paegeia is not finished revealing all its secrets. During a summer break intended for relaxation, she discovers that her harrowing adventure to retrieve the King of Lion sword wasn't the destiny foretold by the cryptic Viden, a dragon with the ability to see a person's true fate. The words inked onto the page of the mysterious Book of Shadows remains black...
47) Moonbeam
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Moonbeam follows Blake and Elena ten years later from where the last novel, Starlight, ended. What if your 'what if' becomes finally an option. Would you go and change the past...?
49) Y
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With her powerful debut novel, author Marjorie Celona has made a mark with critics and listeners everywhere. In Y, Shannon is abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of a local YMCA. Taken into the foster-care system, she endures years of abuse. But her luck finally changes when she's sent to live with a kind single mom named Miranda. Even so, Shannon remains haunted by a burning question: why did her birth mother leave her on the very day she was...
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"Designed specifically for women, this is an introduction to Ayurveda - one of the most ancient and holistic forms of medicine in human history. Developed in India over 5,000 years ago, Ayurveda is a complete system for healing and rebalancing the body. This fascinating guide features an A-to-Z of herbs with their description, history, and uses, and easy-to-prepare home remedies. There is also an A-to-Z section of ailments that details symptoms and...
51) Moonbreeze
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Dragonian volume 4
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"The life of a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as his rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. But she has made a promise to her father, King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan. Elena has promised to never truly fulfill her destiny. However,...
52) Firebolt
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Dragonian volume 1
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"Dragons. Right. Teenage girls don't believe in fairy tales, and sixteen-year old Elena Watkins was no different ... Until one night a fairy tale killed her father. Now Elena is in a new world, and a new school. The cutest guy around may be an evil dragon, a Prince wants Elena's heart and a long dead sorcerer may be waking up wanting to kill her. Oh and the only way Elena's going to graduate is on the back of her very own dragon. Teenage girls don't...
53) Mad magic
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Mad magic volume 1
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Mad Magic is a beautifully dark and rich Young Adult fantasy from Nicole Conway, bestselling author of the Dragonrider Chronicles. Josie Barton is a high school student living in terror. Invisible creatures torment her everywhere she goes, constantly getting her into trouble at school, and even haunting her apartment. But just when Josie thinks things couldn't get any worse . . . she meets the guy from across the hall. Zeph Clemmont is a changeling...
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A librarian. A spell book. And a terrorist organization set on enslaving the world.
Librarian Jayne Thorne enjoys her quiet life of tea and books. That is, until she finds a spell book in the Vanderbilt archives that accidentally gives her access to a magical dimension.
Now she's hunted by a magic-wielding terrorist group called the Kingdom, and the only way for her to survive is to team up with a secret branch of the CIA. Her first mission: Go...
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"Riveting...powerful...brilliant...necessary." (Kirkus Reviews)
For those drawn to both Tara Westover's moving account of a difficult childhood and Susan Cain's research on underappreciated traits...
Canaries Among Us reveals the exquisite joy and tender heartache inherent in raising a child who is undervalued by a community.
A lifeline to those struggling with learning differences, bullying, and anxiety, Canaries Among Us explores one of the most...
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An acclaimed grief educator and the author of Second Firsts teaches readers how everyday people can communicate with loved ones who have passed away in this groundbreaking science-driven guide to connecting with the afterlife. Christina Rasmussen has helped countless people break out of the "waiting room" of grief and rebuild their lives through both her "life reentry" program and her respected book Second Firsts. Yet, she discovered that even...
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Stop being "the strong one" and start being you.
You're doing it all, and it's too much. Between work, kids, parents, money, meals, and everything else on your plate, it's no wonder you're exhausted. You feel alone, misunderstood-and sometimes hopeless. Because let's face it, this idea of being a "strong woman" is highly overrated.
But what if there were another way? What if we put limits and boundaries around what it means to be a strong woman?...
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Loom saga volume 3
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A new rebellion rises from the still smoldering remnants of the five guilds of Loom to stand against Dragon tyranny, while on Nova, those same Dragons fight amongst themselves as age-old power struggles shift the political landscape in fateful and unexpected ways.
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Dowser volume 2
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Three months ago, I lost my foster sister, Sienna, to the darkness. As in blood magic and chaos and general mayhem. No one saw it until it was too late, but I should have. Now, I have a wounded heart and soul that I can't even reveal to anyone around me, because I'm supposed to hate Sienna with the fiery passion of the justified. And I do. I just wish I didn't feel so lost without her, so unsure of the path I thought I had carved for myself, and so...