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If Pets Wrote Poems: A Parody Collection
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of ANIMALS IN SURPRISING SHADES comes another one-of-a-kind poetry collection written from the viewpoint of the pets of historically famous poets.
Read about Benjamin Fra
- Author: Johnston Taylor, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1957655658
- Language: English
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The Good Guys Agency: Kind Like Fred Rogers: Boys for a Better World
$12.99 Read more“A mix of prose and colorful comic panels make for a fast-moving story affirming the power of kindness and empathy.”–Kirkus Reviews
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The first book in the Good Guys
- Series: Good Guys Agency
- Author: Esposito, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1638192219
- Language: English
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The Good Guys Agency: Brave Like Jackie Robinson: Boys for a Better World
$12.99 Add to cart“A mix of prose and colorful comic panels make for a fast-moving story affirming the power of kindness and empathy.”–Kirkus Reviews, review of Kind Like Fred Rogers (The Good Guys Agenc
- Series: Good Guys Agency
- Author: Esposito, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1638192391
- Language: English
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Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
$9.99 Add to cartI had freckles.
I had sandy hair. I was too short.
Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne?
These are the words of lady Jane Grey, as imagined by celebrated author Ann Rinaldi. Ja
- Author: Rinaldi, Ann
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0060549254
- Language: English
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H Goes to Mexico
$23.99 Add to cart- Author: Ripullo, R. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1960876937
- Language: English
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We Are Who We Are: An Ode to Indigenous Heroes Past and Present
$18.99 Add to cartA companion book to the bestselling Go Show the World, this is another joyous picture book celebration of 13 Indigenous heroes from the past and present.
We are who we are. There’s strength in this to- Author: Kinew, Wab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1774883597
- Language: English
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The Cabbage Seed’s Colossal Secret
$18.99 Add to cartA child plants a tiny seed and wonders what secrets it might hold.
As it grows and grows and grows, she nurtures the little plant until it isn’t so little anymore–in fact, it’s COLOSSAL. What does o
- Author: Greenwald, Karen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668955156
- Language: English
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Love, Sivvy: A Novel Inspired by the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Young Sylvia Plath
$19.99 Add to cartThis intensely relatable historical novel-in-verse follows the young adult years of the exceptionally talented tortured poet, Sylvia Plath, as she casts off the limiting expectations of American women… [more below]
- Author: Toalson, R. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0316587133
- Language: English
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Mr. Kuroki’s Garden
$18.95 Add to cartAn uplifting picture book about the true story of a man who planted thousands of his wife’s favorite flower in their small Japanese town after she suffers the loss of her sight. An epic love story tha… [more below]
- Author: Renaud, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 162371575X
- Language: English
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Slam Dunk (Stat: Standing Tall and Talented #3): Volume 3
$5.99 Add to cartYoung Amar’e Stoudemire is back in the all-star basketball adventure–STAT: Standing Tall and Talented!
Eleven-year-old Amar’e Stoudemire has been playing so much basketball lately it feels like he doe… [more below]
- Series: Stat #3
- Author: Stoudemire, Amar’e
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0545387612
- Language: English
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The Isolate: The Saga of Nick Grindstaff
$29.95 Add to cartIn the heart of East Tennessee’s rugged Iron Mountain lives the legend of Nick Grindstaff, a man who turned his back on a cruel world and carved out a life of fierce independence and raw survival. The
- Author: Walsh, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1950544583
- Language: English
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La Maletita Azul (Novela Hist?rica) / The Little Blue Bag (a Historical Novel)
$15.95 Add to cartA forced farewell. An unbreakable love. A destiny shaped by war.
Barcelona, 1937. En medio del caos de la Guerra Civil Espa?ola, Pere Roda toma una decisi?n que lo perseguir? toda la vida: env?a a sus
- Author: Victoria, MarÃa de Lourdes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 607392643X
- Language: Spanish
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Season of the Swamp
$17.00 Add to cartA major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World
New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Ju?rez disembarks at a fetid port city at the- Author: Herrera, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453568
- Language: English
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Henri Is Full: Matisse and His World
$18.95 Read moreThere are days when an artist has no ideas left. For Henri Matisse, the great French artist, this is one of those days.
Henri is empty. So he puts on his striped shirt and goes walking in his neighborh
- Author: Myers, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1644420287
- Language: English
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
$17.00 Add to cart“The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet… [more below]
- Series: Reader’s Circle
- Author: Brewer, Sonny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0345476328
- Language: English
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Love, Sex, and Frankenstein
$27.95 Add to cartAn evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece.
Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a- Author: Lea, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369694
- Language: English
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Letters to Kafka
$21.99 Add to cartA sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesensk?’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.
In 1919, Milena Jesensk?, a clever and spirited twenty-
- Author: Estima, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013310
- Language: English
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No Prisoners
$30.00 Add to cartAn aged trade embalmer discovers a new connection to life. As a husband, he promised his dying wife he’d write their story of love and grief, sweetness, sadness. Twenty-five years later, he may not ha
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 156792705X
- Language: English
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Meridian Rising
$28.95 Add to cartKnown for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas),” “Waiting for a Train,” and “In the Jailhouse Now,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch’s bio-fictional tale of the short and poi
- Author: Burch, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385558
- Language: English
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Spy of the First Person
$17.00 Add to cartThe final work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days
In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the pa- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0525563369
- Language: English
