Why I still love a book that knows how to be a little strange
Not chaotic strange. Not random-for-the-sake-of-it strange. I mean the kind of strangeness that gives a book flavor, posture, and memory.
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Align Your Business with the Real You: Connect with Yourself, Create What Matters Most, and Define Your Success by Jennifer Musser
Owning a business can quietly erode your mental health. Jennifer Musser gets real about that. In Align Your Business with
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Here Lyeth by Johanna Frank
Book Summary: In Here Lyeth, Lexxie, feeling angry and heartbroken, leaves her home after learning that her biological father lives in
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The One Week Writing Workshop: 7 Days to Spark, Boost or Revive Your Novel by Karin Adams
About the book: You've always wanted to write a novel and have been nurturing a great idea. Perhaps youâve made
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How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions
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Part 2: Interview with Ellenmorris Tiegerman, Author of Past Lives Denied
Professor Caitlyn Morrys, a passionate and vocal educator at a small college, finds herself at the heart of a fierce
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Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny by Jeremy Clift
About the Book: Seven infants, conceived artificially aboard a rotating space habitat as an experiment to populate the solar system.
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Part 9: Interview with Authors of âFenix and the Firework Fliers: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Storyâ
Introducing âFenix and the Firework Fliersâ by Once Upon a Dance, Christine Herbert and Scott Partridge Embark on a thrilling
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Part 9: Interview with Julie Ryan McGue, Author of Belonging Matters
Introducing âBelonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinshipâ by Julie Ryan McGue âBelonging Mattersâ is a book that addresses
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Tree Pose by Susan Rogers & John Roosen
About the Book: Escape to Tasmania they said ⌠But what was supposed to be a dream for Ric Peters
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Little Ships: A Novel by Sandra J Scofield
About the Book: After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their
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EDEN by Jamie Lisa Forbes
About the Book: Rowen Hart has been raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in
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Running with Grace: A Wall Street Insiderâs Path to True Leadership, a Purposeful Life, and Joy in the Face of Adversity by Lori Van Dusen
About the Book: Nothing about Lori Van Dusen's childhood indicated she'd become one of the nation's top independent financial advisors.
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Ride the Snake Road: Beamo Roamer's Hardcore Jaunt to the Wasteland by LeRoy Wow
About the Book: Ride The Snake Road is a science fiction novel that tells the story of scavenge man Beamo
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Soulscapes by Lee Woodman
About the Book: Soulscapes, the fifth volume in Lee Woodman's âscapesâ series, is an exploration of the way we reach
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Tick
Book Summary: In a moment of desperation, Brad Hughes made an impassioned promise to God, but when should his responsibilities
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These Things Happen: A Novel by Michael Eon
Book Summary: Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his painâexcept for the one thing that might work. Growing
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Little Echo
Little Echo searches for sounds. Too afraid to speak, she simply echos what she hears: the cacophony of owls and
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Firefighter Flo! (Big Jobs, Bold Women)
Firefighter Flo responds to danger with her teammates to save pets, individuals and buildings in this exciting new work. This
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Will We Always Hold Hands?
Rat asks his friend Bear if they will always hold hands, even when they are really old. Bear responds that
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Midcentury Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from Americaâs Atomic Age
Midcentury cocktails by Cecelia Tichi is a fun book to have and share. I enjoyed the various chapters and structure
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The Rings of Dialisk
Coleâs life was nothing special. He lived in a small rundown apartment and volunteered at the local homeless shelter. It
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The Kudzu Queen
In Cooper County, North Carolina, a stranger arrives in 1941 with big promises for those who will plant kudzu. Fifteen-year-old
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A Few Bicycles More
Fortune, Bicycleâs Bike, is acting weird. Itâs telling her to go the wrong directions, and is blasting music without warning.
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Unseelie (The Unseelie duology, 1)
Unseelie by Ivelisse Housman is an amazing book about two young twins: Iselia and Isolde. These sisters look exactly alike,
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The Poison Season
Leelo is living on a mysterious island known as Endla, an unreachable place surrounded by a poisonous lake. Leelo knows
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Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a brash writer who never met a fight he couldnât instigate. His brilliant work was often sidelined
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Built to Last
Shelby and Cameron starred in a television show together as teenagers years ago, and they were each othersâ first loves.
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Up for Grabs
Frida is only eleven, but she and her older brother, Zac, have lived in seven countries. She never feels like
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Curse of the Werewolves (The Supernatural Society, 2)
Just when everyone thought they were safe, it turns out that there is something else lurking out there. That something
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Music Is in Everything
The family is sure to enjoy time together and observe the world around them by listening closely to how beautiful
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Pack Your Bags, Maggie Diaz
Things are better than ever for Maggie Diaz. She and her friends, Julian and Zoey, are closer than ever, her
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The Bushcraft Essentials Field Guide: The Basics You Need to Pack, Know, and Do to Survive in the Wild
Dave Canterbury teaches wilderness survival courses, so he has the perfect experience to put together an excellent guide for those
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White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in Americaâs Heartland
The men of the Kansas Security Force (KSF) were clamoring for change in the United States. A mass shooting that
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NYPD Red 7 : The Murder Sorority (NYPD Red Series, Book 7)
Marshall Karp is back with another installment of the NYPD Red series. And this time, heâs writing solo without James
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Whereâs Waldo?: The Great Speed Search
Whereâs Waldo? is a fun look-and-find book where the reader looks around different scenes with lots of different things happening,
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Animal FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Beastly Facts (FACTopia!, 4)
Animal FACTopia! is the blue book in the FACTopia series of books (all are different colors) that all have over
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In the Land of Elves
In the Land of Elves, everything is just beautiful. It shows what the elves do through the seasons and how
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The Time Travelers
Humans have long been fascinated with time, speed, and sound. Light is measured by brightness (lumens) and sound is measured
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Bees: Honeybees, Bumblebees, and More! (My Wonderful World)
Bees are some of the most valuable of flying insects, although youngsters often simply look at bees as scary, stinging
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Till Dawn
In Till Dawn, what was predicted by NASA scientists as a âbeautiful meteor showerâ becomes a nightmare for the United
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ABCity: Maze & Seek-n-Find
ABCity is a fun book that is full of pictures of many colorful things to look at that are drawn
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Yunaâs Cardboard Castles
Yunaâs cardboard castles shows her unique art of folding paper and cardboard, but it is so much more. When Yuna
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Hidden Charm (Star Friends)
Star Friends: Hidden Charm is the eighth book in the Star Friends series. Hidden Charm continues after Moonlight Mischief, after
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When Sea Becomes Sky
Bex and her little brother, Davey, love to explore Pelican Island, especially the marsh at The Thumb, but things are
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers In the 21st Century and Other Follies (Freak Brothers Follies)
Way back when, somewhere in San Francisco, Freewheelinâ Franklin Freek, Phineas T. Phreak, Fat Freddy Freekowtski, and of course, Fat
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The House of Wolves: Bolder Than Yellowstone or Succession, Patterson and Lupicaâs Power-Family Thriller Is Not To Be Missed
The House of Wolves is the newest James Patterson novel which he has cowritten with sports columnist and guru Mike
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The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak
Book Summary: One malfunction⌠Millions dead⌠The search for answers begins⌠In the year 2040, the world's transportation is dominated
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World of Extreme Adventures
The World of Extreme Adventures takes us on incredible and dangerous journeys all over the world. Like an expedition in
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Making Friends with Feelings
Making Friends with Feelings by Keith Ruffner, illustrated by Kate Gieyzer, is about three friendsâShiner, Molly, and Buddy. These three
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Stranger Things Omnibus: Afterschool Adventures (Graphic Novel)
Will and his besties are back in three new adventures. In one book, the Mike, Dustin and friends imagine that
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A Sweet New Year for Ren
The Lunar New Year is approaching â a happy time for family and friends to join in celebration and awe.
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The Blackhouse: A Novel
Robert Reid moved his family to Kilmeray, a small isle off the coast of Scotland. He attempts to build a
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The Bears Shared
The bearâs hair is outside their lair, flying everywhere. A bird gathers the hair and uses it to make a
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Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps by  Hank Quense
About the Book: Self-publishing a book is difficult. This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project
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Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants
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My Expansion by Nancy Manet
Story Summary Big Bear thinks they know how things are supposed to be for the cub: Donât run too fast.
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Home Beyond Hell by Karen Yakey
Book Summary: Captain Ethan Evans has been running from his for two years. Europe is a big place. He and
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