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Series: Ami McKay's WitchesHalf Spent Was the NightA Witches' YuletideHardcover
Ami McKay9780735275669
$20.00FICTION
Oct 16, 2018
Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York. During the nights between Christmas and New Year’s, the witches of New York—Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest, Beatrice Dunn—gather before the fire to tell ghost stories and perform traditional Yuletide divinations. (Did you know that roasting chestnuts was once used to foretell one’s fate?)As the witches roast chestnuts and melt lead to see their fate, a series of o... + Read More
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Series: Blood Will OutHardcover
Jo Treggiari9780735262959
$21.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
Jun 05, 2018
Silence of the Lambs for young adults—Blood Will Out is a gripping YA thriller readers won’t be able to put down.Ari Sullivan is alive—for now.She wakes at the bottom of a cistern, confused, injured and alone, with only the shadowy recollection of a low-pitched voice and a gloved hand. No one can hear her screams. And the person who put her there is coming back. The killer is planning a gruesome masterpiece, a fairytale tableau of innocence and blood, meticulously designed.Until now, Ari was happy to spend her days pining for handsome, recent-a... + Read More
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Series: The Fitzgerald-TroutsKnock About with the Fitzgerald-TroutsPaperback
Esta Spalding9780735263192
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 29, 2018
The second book in a Dahl-esque middle-grade series by award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding, with illustrations by acclaimed artist Sydney Smith.Welcome to the further adventures of the plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings, who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless, but the kids can drive.In this second installment, the delightfully self-reliant siblings continue their search for a home. This time, their pursuit will bring them face-to-face with a flood, illegal carnivorous plants and the chance to win an extraordin... + Read More
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Series: Barometer RisingPenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Hugh Maclennan9780735252851
$22.00FICTION
Nov 07, 2017
Hugh MacLennan’s first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.In the winter of 1917, Penelope Wain is convinced her love, Neil Macrae, is dead—killed in action while serving overseas. That he apparently died in disgrace does not alter her love for the soldier who, unbeknownst to her, has returned to Halifax to clear his name, only days before a catastrophic explosion in the Harbour will forever change their lives.
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Series: The Long Way HomeA Personal History of Nova ScotiaHardcover
John Demont9780771025112
$32.00HISTORY
Oct 03, 2017
The province’s premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.For lovers of history, travel writing, and sharp social observation comes a finely etched portrait of Nova Scotia by one of the province’s most gifted writers. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales, and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and woof of humanity, geography, and history.This book is the summation of DeMont’s years of travel, research, and thought. It tells th... + Read More
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Series: SmootA Rebellious ShadowHardcover
Michelle Cuevas9780735263567
$22.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 12, 2017
A brave shadow finds a more colorful life in this joyous picture book by the acclaimed author of The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles and illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers.Smoot the shadow has been living a yawn-filled life for years. His boy never laughs and never leaps, so Smoot never does either…until the day he pops free, and decides to hit the road in search of the life he dreams about. And as he enjoys his first colorful day—singing, dancing and playing—other shadows watch him, and they become brave too. The frog’s shadow takes the shape of a prin... + Read More
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Series: Bit RotPaperback
Douglas Coupland9780345812155
$21.00LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Jun 27, 2017
Douglas Coupland’s latest collection, Bit Rot, is a gem of the digital age, exploring the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix…you can’t stop with just one.“Bit rot” is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, “Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones.” Bit Rot... + Read More
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Series: IslandPenguin Modern Classics EditionPaperback
Alistair MacLeod9780771059186
$22.00FICTION
Jun 13, 2017
Joyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of the experience of reading these stories: "that sudden feeling of insecurity that comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness."The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to viol... + Read More
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Series: The Fitzgerald-TroutsLook Out for the Fitzgerald-TroutsPaperback
Esta Spalding9780735263185
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 02, 2017
The first adventure in a rollicking, brilliantly imagined new middle grade series by award-winning poet and screenwriter Esta Spalding, with illustrations by rising new talent Sydney Smith.Kim Fitzgerald-Trout took to driving with ease—as most children would if their parents would ever let them try. She had to. After all, she and her siblings live in a car.Meet the Fitzgerald-Trouts, a band of four loosely related children living together on a lush tropical island. They take care of themselves. They sleep in their car, bathe in the ocean, eat f... + Read More
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Series: Capturing JoyThe Story of Maud LewisPaperback
Jo Ellen Bogart9781770492622
$10.99JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 10, 2011
This picture book biography of a beloved Canadian folk artist, is a great introduction to biography as a genre, and to folk art. It is a celebration of an indominable spirit, and will sell particularly well through schools and libraries, and galleries. Originally published in hardcover in 2002, this is the first paperback edition.A picture book biography of Maud Lewis, a beloved Canadian East Coast folk artist. Available for the first time in paperback.Story Locale: Nova Scotia, Canada
A two-time National Book Award finalist delivers a stirring tale of the passions—tender, obsessive, even murderous—that are unleashed by a wartime love triangle. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle,... + Read More
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Series: Pluto's GhostPaperback
Sheree Fitch9780385665902
$14.95YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Sep 28, 2010
“Murderer. It’s one kick in the belly of a word isn’t it? Has a taste, too. It tastes like barbed wire and has wild hyena eyes. Murderer. Murder-her. Did he? Did I? That’s when I remember what I want to forget.”Jake Upshore has loved Skye Derucci since before he can remember. Volatile, complex and frustrated (he’s got a label disorder from all the labels he’s been given) at the best of times, Jake’s on a desperate quest to find Skye before she aborts the baby he believes is his. As he hurtles headlong toward certain tragedy, Jake relives the fa... + Read More
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Series: New Canadian LibraryEach Man's SonPaperback
Hugh Maclennan9780771093593
$19.95FICTION
Aug 04, 2009
In Each Man’s Son, his fourth novel, Hugh MacLennan returns to his native Cape Breton to present life in a small mining community.Dr. Daniel Ainslie, who ministers to the rough miners, yearns for a son, which he can never have. He comes to love young Alan MacNeil, the son of Mollie MacNeil and her absent husband, Archie, who deserted his family several years before to seek his fortune as a professional fighter. Now Archie returns, bitter and defeated, to wreak tragedy on his community.Originally published in 1951, Each Man’s Son, a stunning acc... + Read More
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Series: Ragged IslandsPaperback
Don Hannah9780676977929
$19.95FICTION
Feb 12, 2008
“Dark, nothing but darkness, thick and deep, and it wasn’t home, she could sense that, it was somewhere else. Susan Ann was trying to think, trying to remember the last thing she remembered — what day was this?” (p. 2)It is September 11, 2001, and eighty-five-year-old Susan Ann Roberts is coming to the end of her life. In and out of consciousness, she is bedridden in a Toronto hospital, confused as to what has brought her to this place. Her daughter, Lorraine, and beloved granddaughter, Meg, are by her side but they seem unable (or unwilling) t... + Read More
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Series: Scotch RiverA NovelPaperback
Linda Little9780143052678
$22.00FICTION
Apr 03, 2007
Cass Hutt, bull rider, has nothing left to lose. The bulls should have killed him by now. Instead, it is his rodeo partner who has died, severing Cass’s only ties to his world. With nothing and no one to hold him, Cass is led back East by the sudden arrival of a mysterious land deed, back to Scotch River, Nova Scotia, and the sketchy boyhood memories he left to die there. In this dark and beautifully written novel, acclaimed author Linda Little introduces an unforgettable cast of characters bound together by the mysteries of blood and the burd... + Read More
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Series: The Birth HousePaperback
Ami McKay9780676977738
$22.00FICTION
Mar 06, 2007
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, The Birth House is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women ... + Read More
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Series: The GravesaversPaperback
Sheree Fitch9780385660730
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10
May 10, 2005
In The Gravesavers, award-winning children’s author Sheree Fitch has fashioned a winning combination of the girls’ coming-of-age stories detailed in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and a gothic mystery involving a century-old shipwreck and a ghostly romance.Minn Hotchkiss is angry, homesick, smitten, and curious—in other words, she’s like any other thirteen-year-old girl away from her family for the summer. But unlike any other girl, this summer Minn will learn some painful lessons in the course of investigating the spooky aftermath of a... + Read More
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Series: HeavePaperback
Christy Ann Conlin9780385658089
$19.95FICTION
Dec 03, 2002
Bursting with wonder and delicate despair, Serrie Sullivan longs for the world, but she’s trapped, just like Dorothy in Oz. Serrie’s got a nasty secret. It’s festering inside her, because in the gothic Annapolis Valley, hey, that’s what you do—you never show and you never, ever tell.As she dashes from her wedding altar on the run of her life, ardently wanting to understand what has brought her to this moment, Serrie sweeps us up in an exhilarating and poignant journey from rural Nova Scotia to London bars, to strip clubs by the docks, through m... + Read More
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Series: No Great MischiefPaperback
Alistair MacLeod9780771055706
$21.00FICTION
Jan 25, 2001
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape ... + Read More
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Series: Fall on Your KneesPaperback
Ann-Marie MacDonald9780394281780
$24.95FICTION
Aug 26, 1997
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book * Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award * Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award * Winner of the CBA Libris People’s Choice Award * Winner of the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the YearThe stunning debut novel that established Ann-Marie MacDonald as one of Canada’s foremost literary talents, Fall on Your Knees is a story of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, and of miracles.Moving from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the b... + Read More
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Series: Laura Monster CrusherPaperback
Wesley King9780143197812
$11.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10
Apr 03, 2018
Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Duff in this funny, fast-paced tale of middle-school monsters, self-image, and, oh yeah, actual monsters that want to kill everyone.Laura Ledwick is…well…large. The kids at school don’t let her forget it, and call her by various names: Laura Largebottom, Laura Lardo, Lots of Laura—you get the idea. When Laura’s family moves to the next town over before eighth grade, she expects more of the same. What she doesn’t expect are the snake-like yellow eyes watching her from the forest. Or the... + Read More
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Series: Dragons vs. DronesDragons vs. DronesPaperback
Wesley King9781595147981
$11.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
Mar 14, 2017
A young computer genius is chased by sleek, high-tech drones into a land populated by Godzilla-size dragons, setting off a war that only he can stop. Part Eragon, part Transformers, with a magical beating heart at its center. Marcus Brimley was just four years old when his CIA analyst father went missing and the world branded him a traitor. Eight years later, searching for clues to find his father and prove his innocence, Marcus breaks a complex code that sends him shooting through a storm into an alternate realm . . . but he doesn't travel al... + Read More
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Series: Dragons vs. DronesEnemy of the RealmPaperback
Wesley King9781595147998
$11.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12
Mar 14, 2017
In book two of the series that's Eragon meets Transformers, Marcus and Dree prepare to set out on a quest to find the storied, magical Egg. But first they'll have to rally Dracone's rebels and dragons if they're going to have any chance of winning the war against Francis's army of drones. Having barely escaped the wrath of Prime Minister Francis Xidorne and his army of drones, Marcus Brimley finds himself back on Earth, this time with Dree and George in tow. The group's mission is clear: Find the Flames' ancient Egg and bring it back to Draco... + Read More
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Series: The VindicoPaperback
Wesley King9780142426562
$9.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Jun 13, 2013
X-Men meets The Breakfast Club in this darkly humorous adventure The Vindico are a group of supervillains who have been fighting the League of Heroes for as long as anyone can remember. Realizing they're not as young as they used to be, they devise a plan to kidnap a group of teenagers to take over for them when they retire--after all, how hard can it be to teach a bunch of angsty teens to be evil? Held captive in a remote mansion, five teens train with their mentors and receive superpowers beyond their wildest dreams. Struggling to uncover the... + Read More
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Series: All Is Beauty NowPaperback
Sarah Faber9780771009358
$21.00FICTION
Jul 10, 2018
After the disappearance of their beloved eldest daughter, a once-glamorous family prepares to leave behind the seeming paradise of 1960s Brazil for the safer shores of Canada. But as the family counts down the days to their departure, secrets and betrayals surface, exposing the heartbreaking truths behind the family’s beautiful facade.Rio de Janeiro, 1962: A young woman walks into the waters off a crowded beach and vanishes. A year later, her family - the once-golden family of their privileged little community - prepares to leave behind the see... + Read More
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Series: The Only CaféA NovelPaperback
Linden MacIntyre9780345812070
$22.00FICTION
Jun 12, 2018
The Only Café is both a moving mystery in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father’s death—and an illuminating exploration of how the traumatic past, if left unexamined, shadows every moment of the present.Pierre Cormier had secrets. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn’t let anyone really know him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing... + Read More
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Series: Practicing PeacePaperback
Pema Chodron9781611806137
$17.50RELIGION
Aug 14, 2018
Inspiring teachings on what each of us can do to promote peace from the inside out.Can there be hope for a peaceful future in times like these? How can we overcome our sense of helplessness when problems seem so big and tensions so strong? Pema Chödrön here shows us how to look deeply at the underlying causes of these tensions and how we really can create a more peaceful world—by starting right where we are and learning to see the seeds of hostility in our hearts. She draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of anger, aggression, hatr... + Read More
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Series: The Wisdom of No Escapeand the Path of Loving-KindnessPaperback
Pema Chödrön9781611806052
$22.95RELIGION
Jul 31, 2018
The “down-to-earth, unsentimental, [and] high-humored” Pema Chödrön classic on learning to face our lives just as they are (Los Angeles Times) It’s true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves—and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms is simple but not easy: we must learn to open ourselves up to life in all its manifestations. Here, spiritual teacher and When Things Fall Apart author Pema Chödrön presents a uniquely practical approach to doing just ... + Read More
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Series: Start Where You AreA Guide to Compassionate LivingPaperback
Pema Chödrön9781611805970
$22.95RELIGION
Nov 06, 2018
The perennially helpful guide to transforming our pains and difficulties into opportunities for genuine joy and personal growth, from the beloved Buddhist nun and author of When Things Fall Apart We all want to be fearless, joyful, and fully alive. And we all know that it’s not so easy. We’re bombarded every day with false promises of ways to make our lives better—buy this, go here, eat this, don’t do that; the list goes on and on. But Pema Chödrön shows that, until we get to the heart of who we are and really make friends with ourselves, every... + Read More
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Series: The GravesaversPaperback
Sheree Fitch9780770429607
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10
Nov 28, 2006
“An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.”In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives, Minn discovers the skull of a human child on the beach. She is swiftly caught up in a mystery that reaches back more than a century, to the aftermath of the most tragic shipwreck in Maritime history before the Titanic.Over the course of this extraor... + Read More
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Series: The Unicorn Rescue SocietySasquatch and the MuckleshootHardcover
Adam Gidwitz9780735231764
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Nov 13, 2018
The third book in the fully illustrated, globe-trotting new middle grade fantasy-adventure series about mythical creatures and their cultures of origin, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale.Among the towering fir trees of the Pacific Northwest, a famously elusive creature is in serious trouble.All Elliot wants is a nice, normal day at school. All Uchenna wants is an adventure. Guess whose wish comes true?Professor Fauna whisks the kids—and Jersey, of course—off to the Muckleshoot territory in Washington, where film cre... + Read More
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Series: The Unicorn Rescue SocietyThe Creature of the PinesHardcover
Adam Gidwitz9780735231702
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Apr 10, 2018
A fully illustrated, globe-trotting new middle grade fantasy-adventure series about mythical creatures and their cultures of origin, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale.Elliot Eisner isn’t exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he’d much rather stay at home and read a book. But things take an unexpected turn when he finds out his weird new teacher, Professor Fauna, has planned a field trip for Elliot’s very first day. Along with a new friend—brave, outspoken Uchenna Devereaux—Elliot ... + Read More
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Series: The Unicorn Rescue SocietyThe Basque DragonHardcover
Adam Gidwitz9780735231733
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Jul 10, 2018
A fully illustrated, globe-trotting new middle grade fantasy-adventure series about mythical creatures and their cultures of origin, from the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale.Elliot and Uchenna have barely recovered from their first adventure with the Unicorn Rescue Society when the mysterious Professor Fauna approaches them with an all-new quest. And this time, they’re going to have to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Basque Country. Elliot and Uchenna, with Jersey in tow, soon wonder whether their newest, fire-breathing re... + Read More
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Series: Notes for the EverlostA Field Guide to GriefPaperback
Kate Inglis9781611805505
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 18, 2018
Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.Inglis’s story is a springboard that can help other bereaved parents—and anyone who has experienced wrenching loss—reflect on emotional survival in the first year; dealing with family, friends, and bystanders post-loss; the unique survivors’ guilt, feelings of failure, and isolation of bereavement; and... + Read More
Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche.An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose... + Read More
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Series: The Waiting HoursPaperback
Shandi Mitchell9780143199007
$24.95FICTION
Apr 30, 2019
When you spend your life saving others…who will be there to save you?When tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work.Tough-as-nails Kate, when she’s not working with her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Zeus, is a trauma nurse who spends her off-duty hours trying to forget what she has seen. E... + Read More
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Series: I Talk Like a RiverHardcover
Jordan Scott9780823445592
$24.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
Winner of the Schneider Family Book AwardBoston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner What if words got stuck in the back of your mouth whenever you tried to speak? What if they never came out the way you wanted them to?Sometimes it takes a change of perspective to get the words flowing.A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the YearI wake up each morning with the sounds of words all around me. And I can’t say them all…When a boy who stutters feels isolated, alone, and incapable of communicating in the way he’d like, it takes a kindly father and a wal... + Read More
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Series: The Grey SistersHardcover
Jo Treggiari9780735262980
$21.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12
Sep 24, 2019
Two years after a deadly plane crash, best friends D and Spider head back to the mountains to uncover the truth. A gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Cheerleaders and Sadie.D and Spider have always been best friends, and they are further united in their shared grief: they both lost siblings in a horrific plane crash two years earlier. A chance sighting of a beloved cuddly toy in a photograph of the only survivor raises D’s hopes all over again that somehow her sister survived. She and Spider and their friend, Min, set off on a road... + Read More
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Series: Tell Me When You Feel SomethingHardcover
Vicki Grant9780735270091
$21.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14
Jun 15, 2021
The perfect after-school job turns deadly for teens working as “simulated patients” at the local med school. Everyone has something to hide and no one is safe in this contemporary YA thriller that exposes the dark reality of #MeToo in the world of medicine, for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson.It seemed like a cool part-time program—being a “simulated” patient for med school students to practice on. But now vivacious, charismatic Viv lies in a very real coma. Cellphone footage just leads to more questions. What really happened? Other kid... + Read More
Etty Darwin and her famous father go for a walk to ponder life, science…and fairies! Inspired by the real-life daughter of Charles Darwin.Etty loves make-believe.Her dad loves science.Etty believes in fairies.Her dad would need to see some proof that they exist.But they both love nature, conversation and each other.A gorgeous rumination on belief and imagination featuring Henrietta (Etty) Darwin and her famous father, Charles. Etty went on to become a valued and keen editor of Charles’s work and a thoughtful and intellectual being in her own ri... + Read More