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Nimona (Paperback)

By Noelle Stevenson, Noelle Stevenson (Illustrator)

$15.99

ISBN: 9780062278227

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Published: Quill Tree Books - May 12th, 2015

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A very different take on the age-old battle between good and evil and this time from the perspective of a villain and his shape-shifting spunky sidekick, Nimona. ~ Reviewed by Miya Molinelli

Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer (Hardcover)

By Heather Lende

$17.95

ISBN: 9781616201678

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Published: Algonquin Books - April 28th, 2015

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Introspective and upbeat, this mother of five and obituary writer from Alaska offers the perfect blend of humor and compassion as she tackles the daily complexities of our universal existence. Lende writes like your best friend talking to you. A lovely gift for someone you know and appropriate one for someone you don't. ~ Reviewed by Shanti Mayer

The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy #1) (Paperback)

By Aaron Starmer

$12.99

ISBN: 9781250056856

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Published: Square Fish - March 17th, 2015

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Definitely not your everyday middle reader book about a boy and a girl in a magical land. Chilling, intriguing, and well-paced with great, complex characters. ~ Reviewed by Miya Molinelli

Stay, Illusion: Poems (Paperback)

By Lucie Brock-Broido

$18.00

ISBN: 9780307962034

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Published: Knopf - March 3rd, 2015

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A tapestry woven of words both arcane and familiar, antiquated and contemporary, "STay, Illusion" marries the mythological with the everyday, the illusory with the real. Read these poems aloud and savor their sounds!

Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel 75th Anniversary (Hardcover)

By Virginia Lee Burton

$17.99

ISBN: 9780544279926

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Published: Clarion Books - October 21st, 2014

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My absolute favorite book from my childhood! Maybe the only thing my brother and I agreed on was begging our mom to read it night after night!

Collected Poems of Jack Gilbert (Paperback)

By Jack Gilbert

$30.00

ISBN: 9780375711763

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Published: Knopf - September 2nd, 2014

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At turns ecstatic and at turns elegiac, these poems are an invitation into Gilbert's personal history which was defined by both exploration and isolation. Each of these poems is, like a single day, its own strange and incomprehensible bundle of events. An extremely satisfying and memorable read.