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From the Similars series , Vol. 2 by Rebecca Hanover ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 10, 2019 In this sequel to The Similars (2018), tensions rise as the villains reveal a ploy to exact revenge on the Ten and their families and ultimately take over the world. When Emma Chance returns to her elite boarding school,

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I devour Best Of lists because they help me keep up with what books people are loving, especially outside of my usual go-to genres. Just in time for summer reading, Amazon’s Book Editors released their list of Best Books of the Year So Far. The Top 20 list includes hand-picked titles released between January 2021

by John Grisham ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 27, 2021 Legal eagle and mystery maven Grisham shifts gears with a novel about roundball. What possessed Grisham to stop writing about murder in the Spanish moss–dripping milieus of the Deep South is anyone’s guess, and why he elected to write about basketball, one might imagine, speaks to

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by Lois Lowry ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1989 The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction—a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas’ Lisa’s War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at

As Marvel’s new Loki series makes plain, Loki is not restricted to one timeline like us mortals. Originating as a figure in Norse mythology, innumerable writers and artists have since created their own versions of the irrepressible pseudo-god. The most famous such adaptation is, of course, Marvel’s. Since his first appearance in 1962, Marvel Loki

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by Matthew McConaughey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 20, 2020 All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. “This is an approach book,” writes McConaughey, adding that it contains “philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality,

There is something absolutely magical about gardens. They come in various shapes and sizes, but are similar in the restfulness and proximity to nature they inspire in us. A lone basil plant on the window sill or a thriving green backyard — both have the potential to calm our frayed nerves. As the pandemic exposed

by Natalie Babbitt ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1975 At a time when death has become an acceptable, even voguish subject in children’s fiction, Natalie Babbitt comes through with a stylistic gem about living forever.  Protected Winnie, the ten-year-old heroine, is not immortal, but when she comes upon young Jesse Tuck drinking from a secret

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The history of Indian Residential Schools is foundational to understanding Canada as it is today. In British Columbia, learning about residential schools is part of the curriculum from elementary school onwards, but that is not the same across Canada or the U.S., who have their own history of American Indian Boarding Schools — or even

by Casey McQuiston ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 4, 2019 The much-loved royal romance genre gets a fun and refreshing update in McQuiston’s debut. Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American President Ellen Claremont, knows one thing for sure: He hates Henry, the British prince to whom he is always compared. He lives for their verbal sparring

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Locked room mysteries have found a new resurgence in pop culture thanks to blockbusters like Knives Out and new adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. And even if you know the basics of what locked room mysteries are, you may have wondered where exactly the term came from, how they grew in popularity, or even where

From the Captain Underpants series , Vol. 9 by Dav Pilkey & illustrated by Dav Pilkey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 28, 2012 Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Not that there aren’t

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I’ve been book blogging for more than a decade, and in that time, I’ve seen attitudes shift. In the early days of book blogging and BookTube, there was definitely some elitism in the reading community — which makes sense, because before the bookish internet, book media was mostly made up of critical reviews. Young adult