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Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled... More about this book »	The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond A Kirkus Reviews Top Pick for Reading Groups A New York Times and interantional bestseller. Visit the author's website Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach... More about this book »
Walking Tooth & Cloud by Albert Flynn DeSilver “Prose poems you won’t want to miss! The pronoun I in its word-tissue forest . . . “a book of elastic steel, an opposable piano.” Meet tea leaf man, iced-over man... More about this book »	Letters to Early Street by Albert Flynn DeSilver Letters to Early Street by Albert Flynn DeSilver is a whimsical epistolary experiment, a turning of the traditional letter onto it’s poetic ear. Originally begun as... More about this book »
Good Family by Terry Gamble After years of estrangement following the death of her child and a painful divorce, Maddie Addison returns to the childhood cottage that has been the summer home to... More about this book »	Oh The Hell Of It All by Pat Montandon The brutal breakup of Pat Montandon’s seemingly perfect marriage to multimillionaire Al Wilsey and the loss of her son, was the stuff of gossip columnists’ dreams—... More about this book »
Song of a Dangerous Paradise by Graham Leggat More about this book »	Cane River by Lalita Tademy Five generations and a hundred years in the life of a matriarchal black Louisiana family are encapsulated in this ambitious debut novel that is based in part upon... More about this book »
The Show & Tell Lion by Barbara Abercrombie When Matthew tells his class that he has a pet lion (a lie) he has no idea of what he's getting himself into. More about this book »	Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life Into Story by Barbara Abercrombie A book for people who want to become writers, or for people who have written but got stuck, or for those who simply want to write their life story for their... More about this book »

Listening To Africa by Diana Raab Poet Diana M. Raab travels to the heart of Africa with her family to experience the beauty and fascination of another world. During her safari, she observes the... More about this book »	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Staples The lives of Shabanu and her family are governed by the winds that sweep across the Cholistan Desert and by centuries-old traditions. Like the winds that carry... More about this book »
Haveli by Suzanne Staples The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and... More about this book »	City Chronicles: A Tale of Nine Cities by Deborah Cater A Tale of Nine Cities relates the tale of an eye-opening and inspirational trip taken by two 30 year-old friends around Central and Eastern Europe by train.... More about this book »
The Poems of Wing Lei by Alex Grant A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and Wang Wei. His... More about this book »	I Am a Pole (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert Stephen is excited to celebrate the publication of his first children's book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!). It is the heartfelt tale of a pole searching for... More about this book »
A Door in the Ocean by David McGlynn On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn’s closest friend and teammate on the high school swimming team is... More about this book »	What Happened To My Sister by Elizabeth Flock The much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Me & Emma is a dazzling novel of two unforgettable families... More about this book »
Everybody vs. Bob the Angry Flower by Stephen Notley The flowery madness continues in this, the third epoch-defining Bob the Angry Flower cartoon collection. See Bob go after Kofi Annan, robots, George W. Bush,... More about this book »	Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from... More about this book »