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Bob The Ladybug

by Peter Dabbene

“Aren’t there any boy ladybugs?” Author Tommy Starling uses this common confusion as the launching pad for Bob The Ladybug: Bob’s New Pants, a sweet, modest tale about diversity and inclusion. Bob, a young ladybug who lives with... Read More

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Smoke and Magic

by Jill Allen

High school can be rough on socially awkward teenage boys. For bookish Charley Anderson, at age seventeen, his already loner tendencies become complicated by weird dreams, a sudden acquisition of powers, and an alarming physical... Read More

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The Claret Murders

by Jeannine Chartier Hanscom

As established long ago by the iconic James Bond, solving mysteries is simply much easier when one has a limitless supply of funding and gadgetry. This theory is ably upheld by wealthy, good-natured, and endlessly resourceful amateur... Read More

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Very Bad Neighbor

by Mark McLaughlin

Bulla and Rudy may not be the evil next-door neighbors from hell, but they are definitely unpleasant people. If William Terry Rutherford was indeed bullied by such a pathological pair in what he claims is “a contemporary fact-based... Read More

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Viva La Cucina Italiana

by John Senger

Joe Famularo’s Viva La Cucina is organized much like any other cookbook. There are chapters devoted to the usual courses of an Italian meal, beginning with antipasti and ending with desserts, along with a short chapter on what Famularo... Read More

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