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Add a movie-like soundtrack to your favorite bedtime stories! This unique app includes a library of over 70 titles (and they’re adding more all the time!) from classic picture books to new…
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… by your own voice, reading the words. No need to worry about reading at a certain pace -- you can even skip ahead in …
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A young girl gains courage and confidence from her friendly pup in Just Like Millie by Lauren Castillo (Candlewick Press, 2024). The quiet protagonist is reluctant to leave the cozy and safe…
Last updated 2 months 3 weeks ago
… a small pup named Millie. The little dog gets them out and about walking around the city. They even visit a dog park! …
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A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an …
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Andy Warhol and Truman Capote planned to write a smash Broadway play together in 1978. The two friends recorded approximately 80 hours of their conversations as an artistic experiment. The project…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… to until 2037 under New York law. Playwright Rob Roth read about the tapes in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett and …
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I've been waiting to tell you about John Scalzi's forthcoming title for a while now as it was just the antidote I needed for a reading slump. At the time most things I'd been reading were eliciting a…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… I've been waiting to tell you about John Scalzi's forthcoming title for a while now as it …
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Yun Ling Teoh, a survivor of the brutal Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, discovers a beautiful garden tended by the emperor’s exiled former gardener Aritomo. Haunted by the…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… a garden in memory of her sister. But as she learns more about the garden’s intricacy and beauty, its connection to …
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town …
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This latest installment in the Agatha Raisin series brings Agatha eye-to-eye with the most adorable animal ever: the quokka. Seriously, these creatures are the cutest. They are a small…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… creatures are the cutest. They are a small type of wallaby about the size of a cat with a brown face, rounded ears, and …
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If you thought Amy from Gone Girl, was devious, wait until you meet Jane. On the outside, Jane appears to be a mild mannered office assistant beginning a new job in Minneapolis.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… mistreatment of Jane's closest friend. The more you learn about Jane's past, the more you'll root for her and enjoy as …
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After her father's death, Nikki, a modern young Punjabi woman, takes a job teaching creative writing. The Sikh widows who show up expect an English literacy course. But Nikki never expected what she…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… This lively, sexy, and thought-provoking debut novel is about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages. … …
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This year's Newbery Medal went to Merci Suarez Changes Gears, a snappy and emotional novel about a middle school, family, and how little life changes add up fast. Sixth grade is not off to a great…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Merci Suarez Changes Gear s, a snappy and emotional novel about a middle school, family, and how little life changes …
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"A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their …
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Davi is living her own version of Groundhog Day. But instead of going to sleep and waking to the same day over and over, Davi is trapped in a fantasy realm attempting to save the Kingdom. And each…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… to say the least, vulgar to say the most and Davi is about as wisecracking as it's possible to be. And I loved it …
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Nadia and Saeed first meet at a class; slowly we are drawn into their world in an unnamed country teetering between a secular government and a fundamentalist takeover. They fall in love and hope to…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… search for a way out. This is a beautifully written novel about the chaotic world we are currently living in; full of …
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Rock icon and sensation Tina Turner shows anyone how they can overcome whatever life obstacles are thrown their way. Combination spiritual primer and autobiography, this little guide shares Tina…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… practice is informative and concise. If you're curious about what chanting with Tina Turner is like, there's a …
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Kids app
Balance as many animals as you can in the boat -- or just let them swim in the ocean. Cute illustrations, open-ended play and a free price point are the high points of this app. If you're…
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… the scene at that point. While your child will learn about balance much more accurately from the physical versions …
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In this atmospheric thriller, the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents. … Bad Axe County …
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In Japan, a teenage girl is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with letters in Japanese and French, wash ashore in a metal…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… is struggling-- and writing to a future anonymous reader about it in a diary. Ten years later the diary, along with …
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In 1944 Chicago, a young woman’s search for the truth about her revered older sister's death brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar…
Last updated 4 months 2 weeks ago
… In 1944 Chicago, a young woman’s search for the truth about her revered older sister's death brings to focus the …
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Children born on February 29 are rare, but what if some "Leaplings" could also travel in time? Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè and her best friend Big Ben are about to find out what happens when the future…
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè and her best friend Big Ben are about to find out what happens when the future touches the …
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Literary Hub is a great site with much, much great book content. But my favorite thing about it, I'll admit, is its offshoot site CrimeReads.
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… with much, much great book content. But my favorite thing about it, I'll admit, is its offshoot site CrimeReads. There …
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Kids app
There are approximately eleventy jillion alphabet apps available on the market today, so it takes something very special for one to catch my eye. App developer Vector Park is a designer that…
Last updated 3 months 1 week ago
… for the word "yesterday." Deep.) One of the nice things about this app is that it is interesting enough to keep the …
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Storytime starter
Make a SPLASH with this storytime all about water (and the creatures who depend on it).
Last updated 4 months 1 week ago
… Make a SPLASH with this storytime all about water (and the creatures who depend on it). … Water …
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"Hoarders. Scavengers. Clever foragers. Bringers of new life."
Last updated 3 months 4 weeks ago
… blended narrative of fact and storytelling to learn about how Nox Gaak, the Raven Mother, and her flock, look …
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A kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed.
Last updated 1 month 3 weeks ago
… against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be …
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