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Not-so-Weird Emma

Eight-year-old Emma is just beginning to like her new school when her friend Cynthia starts telling other kids that Emma is, well, a little strange. By the creators of Only Emma. Reprint.

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Lost in the Valley of Death

In the vein of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, here is a riveting work of narrative non-fiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India–one of dozens of tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley. For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for a getaway,…

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Kitchens of the Great Midwest

“A sweet and savory treat.” —People “An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Pick From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Kitchens of the Great Midwest…

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Ladybird Favourite Nursery Rhymes

Ladybird Favourite Nursery Rhymes is a beautiful treasury that every young child should have on his or her bookshelf. It contains over 100 rhymes, each one beautifully illustrated. A gorgeous complete collection, this is ideal for parents to read or sing from, and to pass on the rhymes they knew themselves as a child.

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JANE AND THE TWELVE DAYS

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and…

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JANE AND THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT

Shortly after author Jane Austen’s arrival at the estate of the Countess of Scargrave, the countess’s elderly husband falls victim to a mysterious illness, his widow becomes the target of sinister accusations, and Jane endangers her own life to get to the bottom of the puzzle. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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Jane and the Waterloo Map

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy–dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry’s health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him…

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Good Morning, Monster

A therapist creates moving portraits of five of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes. Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist who practiced privately for 25 years. This book focuses on five brave men and women who overcame enormous trauma–in her view, heroes who should be…

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Hell of a Book

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal Fiction, the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! One of Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of…

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