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Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday
In this novel about peace in a time of war, debut author Jamaluddin Aram masterfully breathes life into the colourful characters of the town of Wazirabad, in early 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan. It is the early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Russian occupation has ended, and civil war has broken out, but life roars on in…
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The Girl From Widow Hills
As a child, Arden Maynor was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm. Found alive days later clinging to a storm drain, the girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a book. Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. With the twentieth anniversary of…
Read MoreDeja Dead
See where the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series all began with this repackage of Déjà Dead for modern audiences in premium trade paper format by forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs. Her life is devoted to justice—for those she never even knew. In the year…
Read MoreThe Well-Lived Life
Dr. Gladys McGarey, the centenarian mother of holistic medicine, reveals “a story that teaches as much as it inspires” (Edith Eger, New York Times bestselling author), filled with life-changing secrets for how to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age. Dr. Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical…
Read MoreThese Violent Delights
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
Read MoreA Work in Progress
A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant middle grade journey to self-acceptance told through prose, verse, and illustration. Will is the only round kid in a school full of string beans. So he hides…in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch.…
Read MoreFreckle Juice
Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon’s freckle recipe for fifty cents.
Read MoreThe Book of Lost Names
Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years–a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the…
Read MoreThe Bone Hacker
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which a new technology may wreak worldwide havoc. Called in to examine what is left of a…
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