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New & Noteworthy

New arrivals and hot picks.

The Longevity Paradox by Steven R. Gundry MD; a white background with two figs on the cover. One is whole, while the over is cut in half and lays open.

The Longevity Paradox

by Steven R. Gundry

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All the Wrong Places

by Joy Fielding

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American Cipher by Matt Farwell and Michael Ames; a yellow background fades into an orange/brown color/the sand ground. In the center is a a soldier walking with his back facing the cover, holding a bag.

American Cipher

by Matt Farwell

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The Parade by David Eggers; At the very top of the cover is a yellow strip with a black skyline towards the top right. Underneath this small strip is a red background and a street on a diagonal, traveling from the upper right down to the lower left of the book cover. On the street are the shadows of people, who seem to carry weapons.

by David Eggers

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe by Mike Dooley; a bright yellow background with blue font. A small drawing of a bird is in orange/brown, but is not filled in. The bird carries a blue blooming flower branch in its mouth.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe

by Mike Dooley

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If, Then

by Kate Hope Day

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Queen Bey by Veronica Chambers; a black background with Beyonce standing in the center. She looks towards the right side of the cover. She is in black and white. Beyonce is wearing an extravagant beaded dress with slightly puffy sleeves. Queen.

by Veronica Chambers

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In Another Time by Jillian Cantor; a man and woman stand with their backs facing the cover. They hold hands. The man is wearing a blue and white striped shirt and dark pants while the woman wears a yellow dress. They are standing in tall grass. In between them is a black diagonal line, showing that this isn't one cohesive picture but two separate pictures in the same spot (the man is one and the woman is the other).

In Another Time

by Jillian Cantor

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Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut; a white background with an illustration of a man and woman dancing (not shaded in). The woman's dress is a colorful pattern (watercolor paint?). Underneath the woman's dress is a small Eiffel Tower.

Waiting for Bojangles

by Olivier Bourdeaut

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The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz; The title is capitalized and a pinkish/orange color, with a light green overlay. The background has a dark sky, a water tank and a building near some fenced off land.

by Andrea Bartz

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Savage Feast by Boris Fishman; a gray background with a long white table set on a diagonal from the lower left corner of the cover to the lower middle right of the cover. There are many plates of food on the table.

by Boris Fishman

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The Altruists by Andrew Ridker; A white background with some dandelions on the cover. One is completely bare, one is in the "wish" stage, one is a full bright yellow dandelion and one is a blooming yellow dandelion. A couple of "wishes" fly around the cover.

by Andrew Ridker

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Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Start A Club by Accident by Julie Falatko; a yellow dog stands on top of a white dog while wearing a long trench coat. The yellow dog is juggling a number of sandwiches while 4 kids that sit on the floor and watch in amazement. It is a purple background.

Two Dogs in a Trench Coat

by Julie Falatko

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The Soccer Secret by Mike Lupica; the scene takes place on a soccer field in the midst of a game. A boy in orange shorts attempts to kick a soccer ball while a girl in blue shorts runs towards him.

The Soccer Secret

by Mike Lupica

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The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland; a teal background/sky with a large blue and white dragon in the center, flying in the direction of the lower right corner of the book cover. There are other smaller dragons on the cover as well.

he Lost Heir: The Graphic Novel

by Tui Sutherland

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The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu; two girls standing in the street back to back. They look like twins, both slim with black hair. The girl on the left is wearing a yellow sweater, a purple skirt, teal striped tights and indigo high tops. The girl on the right is wearing a gray sweater, dark pants and black boots. There are crows all along the edges of the cover.

by Anne Ursu

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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Pizza of Peril by John Dougherty; The top part of the cover is green and shows stinkbomb and ketchup-face in their own respective frames. Underneath them is a brown background. There are a group of badgers t the left with shovels, pick axes and more, with pizza on the ground in front of them. To the right is a man with yellow hair/beard, a cat with a red circus jacket on and 3 badgers - two looking concerned and one eating the yellow haired man's hair.

Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Pizza of Peril

by John Dougherty

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Toy Academy: Ready for Action by Brian Lynch; a green background. A helicopter is on the upper left corner of the cover with a rope ladder falling down. A woman with black hair, teal pants, black boots, a black shirt and a purple backpack with a lightning bolt on it hands from the ladder with one hand. She points with the other hand at an orange stuffed animal (Grumbolt) who is in an action pose. To the right of Grumbolt is a woman looking distressed with a blue jumpsuit and big pink hair. Another animal is flying above her and carrying her.

Toy Academy: Ready for Action

by Brian Lynch

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One Speck of Truth by Caela Carter; a soft blue background with a set of diagonal stairs coming down the middle. There are two women walking up the stairs. on each side of the stairs are houses, buildings and a cable car.

One Speck of Truth

by Caela Carter

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Journey to a Promised Land - A Story of the Exodusters by Allison Lassieur; The cover looks like a brown leather-bound journal with gold/metal corners. In the center is a giant circular picture of a young woman with one brown ponytail holding a blue book. In the background, it looks like there are people on sand/next to a tree and a body of water.

Journey to a Promised Land: A Story of the Exodusters

by Allison Lassieur

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Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee; an illustration. A woman stands in the front and center wearing a dark teal and light blue suit. She is holding her helmet under her arm. The sky is different shades of read and blue, with a ghosty/cosmic wolf creeping over the side. The background looks like it is in ruins.

by Yoon Ha Lee

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Cogheart by Peter Bunzl; Illustrated cover. Dark blue starry background. At the very center of the cover is a clock with a building and some houses layered over it. There is a fox running down the side of the clock with a key in its back. Towards the bottom of the clock are a male and female running towards the right. To the right of them is a locket with a woman in a red dress on it. There is a key next to the locket. A blimp flies over everything into a few clouds. A small crescent shaped moon is in the upper right corner.

Cogheart

by Peter Bunzl

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Best Family Ever by Karen Kingsbury; a couple of big trees hold a wooden treehouse. There are two children in the tree house watching the sunset in the background. There is a bicycle on the grass below the trees, a small fence and a house at the bottom of the hill in the background.

Best Family Ever

by Karen Kingsbury

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Lovely War by Julie Berry; A closeup of a woman in the center, her eyes are cut off by the edge of the book cover. She is wearing a pink peacoar and a light pink blouse underneath. In her hand is a small Eiffel Tower with planes flying past it. In the background (dark, brown and grayish) are soldiers.

by Julie Berry

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The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan; A dark blue background with light blue feathers falling down the cover fades into a light blue background (at the top) with dark blue feathers scattered about. The title is capitalized in yellow font.

The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

by Brian Conaghan

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Superman by Matt De La Peña; A stormy sky with lightning is in the background. At the front and center is a guy with a sweater and button down shirt. His eyes are covered by dark shadows, but you can see the side of his thick framed glasses. His body faces the right side of the cover but his face is forward. In front of him is the giant Superman "S" symbol.

Superman

by Matt De La Peña

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Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle; An illustration of a blue bird (left), a red bird (right) and a yellow bird (center) overlapping each other and creating a butterfly looking shape in the center of the cover. They are up in the clouds.

by Margarita Engle

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The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg; A blue sky with egg white/orangeish clouds. A close-up of two guys walk holding hands. One is cut off by the left edge of the cover and is wearing a yellow t-shirt and dark pants. He is tan. He is looking at the other guy who is wearing a gray short sleeve button down shirt and salmon pink colored pants. He rests one of his hands on his head and looks at the other guy/

The Music of What Happens

by Bill Konigsberg

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We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia; A black background with a pretty cutout pattern in the center. The cut-out has the title in fun swirly font. It fades from blue into purple, down into orange and red at the bottom.

We Set the Dark on Fire

by Tehlor Kay Mejia

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Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez; Purple skies with orange clouds and orange grounds. A person sits on top of a car with a phone in his hand. Another boy walks towards the right side of the cover.

Barely Missing Everything

by Matt Mendez

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Mike by Andrew Norris; A light blue background with a guy standing in the middle, his back facing the cover. He is wearing a yellow sweatband on his head, a short sleeve collared shirt, red gym shorts, white high socks with blue and red stripes and red sneakers. A gold fish in a bag is next to his feet.

Mike

by Andrew Norris

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Sorry Not Sorry by Jaime Reed; a Black background with two images of two girls. The top image shows the girls hugging and the bottom image shows both of them looking disappointingly at one another with their arms crossed. One girl has red hair, a black and white striped shirt, black pants and short brown boots. The other girl has long black braids, a floral jacket, a white t-shirt, jeans and white sneakers.

Sorry Not Sorry

by Jaime Reed

Book

Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera; A baby blue background. There is a woman standing in the center with her back facing the front. She is holding a yellow flower and looking at it. Her back is covered in more yellow flowers, leaves and a yellow parrot (upper left side of the cover). She is holding a weapon behind her back.

Dealing in Dreams

by Lilliam Rivera

Book

An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley; A white cover with intricate gold designs/outlines that mirror one another on each side of the cover. There is a red flower branch in the center of the cover, with a crown taking place of the flower bud.

An Affair of Poisons

by Addie Thorley

Book

Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner; two girls sit on stairs outside of a building. At the top of the stairs is a door that reads, "on air" and a satellite dish is on top of the building. The color of the cover is a mix of indigo and magenta hues. A dog sits at the bottom of the stairs.

Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee

by Jeff Zentner

Book

The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Cat Blanchett is on the lower left corner of the cover. She has gray hair pulled back and is wearing a purple suit, holding a purple wand. Jack black is on the top looking serious, his body facing the left but his face looking forward. He holds a ball of light in his hand. Below him is a little boy with goggles on his head, clutching a leather-bound book close to him. In the center is the house, glowing yellow, with a person at the gate. There is a light swirling from the inside of the house around the characters on the cover. In that swirl is an image of a clock with roman numerals.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Children

Movie

Best of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Recipe for Fun; A boy chef stands next to a tiger chef. The boy wears a white and yellow chef hat, a yellow apron, an orange scarf and a long sleeved white shirt. The tiger wears a white chef hat and a red hoodie. They stand in a kitchen and look over a case of bread and cupcakes.

Best of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Recipe for Fun

Children

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40 Stories for Back to School; The book has a blue boarder and a white background. On the cover are several houses, a school, a school bus and people walking to the school.

40 Stories for Back to School

Children

Movie

My Pet Dinosaur; a blue and yellow dinosaur is at the front of the cover, covered in toilet paper. Behind him is the lower half of a boy, who wears a black shirt, ripped jeans, black low tops and has his hand in his pocket. The boy is leaning up against lockers which are yellow and fade into orange. They have green painted hands on them. The cover is utter chaos! A dinosaur doesn't seem like a practical pet.

My Pet Dinosaur

Children

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Penguin Rescue; Two penguins stand near the front of the cover on a block of ice. One of them has pony tails (pinkish orange) and the other has big circular glasses and blue hair. Behind them are other penguins, and in the upper left corner is a space ship with two characters in it. The moon is behind the ship and Saturn is in the upper right corner.

Children

Movie

D.W. and the Beastly Birthday; An illustrated cover. D.W. stands on the left with a fancy royal crown, a white fur shawl, and a purple dress with a pink ribbon. She holds a white birthday cake with 5 candles on it. Next to her on the right is Arthur, wearing his signature yellow sweater, white collared shirt underneath, blue jeans and a tall purple paper crown. The background looks like a jungle.

Arthur: D.W. and the Beastly Birthday

Children

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Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes; A man sits front and center of the cover. He has a turn dial TV on his head, with his face appearing on the screen. There is a blue background with faded overlays of someone's eyes and other images.

Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes

Adult

Movie

Letters from Baghdad; a person sits on a horse, facing the left side of the cover. Behind him is a small stone structure that is seemingly deteriorating.

Letters from Baghdad

Adult

Movie

The Pension Gamble; downward view up of an important state/government building. Blue skies in the air.

The Pension Gamble

Adult

Movie

The Hate U Give; A white background with quotes from reviews of the movie in white/gray and red font. A young woman with braids stands front and center holding a sign that says the title of the movie. She has her hood up and is wearing a red hoodie, black pants and sneakers.

The Hate U Give

Adult

Movie

Kidding. Season One; Jim Carrey is at the front and center wearing a short sleeved white button down with a green tie. The background is a blue sky with 2 clouds. Around him is a hummingbird, a bee, and a myriad of smaller scaled people, parachutes, cars and more..

Kidding. Season One

Adult

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Dark Was the Night; close-ups of a man and two women on the top half of the cover. On the bottom half stands one man in the center with a baseball bat.

Dark Was the Night

Adult

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