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• The House in the Cerulean Sea

  Klune, TJ

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  Fantasy. A case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth is given an unusual and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage and live with its six dangerous children and their enigmatic caretaker, Arthur,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Kibble

  the Hidden Dangers of the Pet Food Industry and How to Do Better by Our Dogs

  Buckley, Shawn Richard, 1964-

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  Nonfiction. Big Kibble is big business: $75 billion globally. A handful of multi-national corporations dominate the industry and together own as many as 80% of all brands. What's even more shocking is how lax the regulations and guidelines…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jasmine Project

  Ireland, Meredith

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  Teen Fiction. When Jasmine's awful boyfriend breaks up with her, her family is thrilled... until they realize she plans to just wait for him to come back to her. So they decide to set up a secret Bachelorette-inspired competition, where 3…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Were Vikings

  MacDonald, Andrew David

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  Fiction. Zelda yearns to be the Hero of her own Legend, just like the Vikings did. She made a list of the things she would neeed to accomplish in order for this to happen, and with the support of her tribe (her older brother, Gert, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Penguin Gentlemen

  Ueno, Kishi,

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  Teen Fiction. Was I expecting a manga that was literally just penguin facts? No. Did I thoroughly enjoy every moment? YES. The story simply covers some everyday activities of penguins who decided to become humans and live modern human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winter's Orbit

  Maxwell, Everina

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  Science Fiction. Do you love a good "arranged marriage for diplomatic reasons" plot? How about diplomatic marriage *in space*? Kiem, a minor prince with a party-boy reputation, is hauled before the Emperor and informed he must marry his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Horror. In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town teenager Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

  Jonasson, Jonas, 1961-

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  Fiction. Who would imagine that an orphaned, illiterate South African girl, with a mind for numbers, could one day save the life of a Swedish monarch? Full of ludicrous characters and never-ending drama, this hilarious story will have you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Archivist Wasp

  a novel

  Kornher-Stace, Nicole

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  Teen Fantasy. Wasp is an Archivist, tasked with hunting ghosts for scraps of clues about the pre-apocalyptic past and forced to defend her position in yearly death matches against other girls. Then she meets a ghost who wants a favor from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Magic Candies

  Paek, Hŭi-na,

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  Children's Picture Book. Magic Candies tells the story of a lonely young boy named Tong Tong who gets a pack of magic candies that allow him to hear the thoughts of dogs, couches, and all kinds of things. You'll be charmed by his story and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Civilizations

  Binet, Laurent,

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  Historical Fiction. Ever wish that someone made a novel out of your craziest Civilization game? This is the book for you - Binet has built a very plausible and highly entertaining historical fiction laying out what would have happened if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vesper Flights

  Macdonald, Helen

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  Nonfiction. In her introduction to this collection of essays on the natural world, author and narrator Helen Macdonald hopes the reader will view it as a Wunderkammer, "full of strange things and...concerned with the quality of wonder". …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Could Fix Anything

  Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer

  Rockliff, Mara,

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  Children's Picture Book Biography. From the beautiful endpapers showing intricately detailed diagrams to the engaging text, this picture book biography tells the fascinating story of Beatrice Shilling, a mechanical engineer. From a very…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Some Assembly Required

  Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, From Ancient Fossils to DNA

  Shubin, Neil,

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  Nonfiction. Offering a thrilling illustration of how science builds upon itself, this survey follows a course through paleontology, developmental biology, and genetics to show how seemingly disparate discoveries in these fields have come…Read moreRead more of this annotation