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Let's Get Festive!

by Jeff Fleischer

In Let’s Get Festive! Joanna Konczak tells the stories of more than thirty holiday celebrations around the world. Packed with interesting trivia, the book is an engaging roundup of the myriad ways that people celebrate. The holidays... Read More

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Cosmic Creatures

by Jeff Fleischer

A gentle conservation message comes through in Tom Huddleston’s adventure-filled novel Cosmic Creatures: The Friendly Firecat, wherein a girl visits her aunt on a remote planet—and has to stop intergalactic rustlers from stealing... Read More

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Irreverent Prayers

by Kristen Rabe

Episcopal priests Elizabeth Felicetti and Samantha Vincent-Alexander’s authentic, atypical devotional "Irreverent Prayers" includes petitions for permission to be “pissed off” and to be rescued from the “platitudes of... Read More

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Wanjiku, Child of Mine

by Danielle Ballantyne

Vibrant, textured illustrations accompany this eloquent picture book about embracing your identity. Wanjiku grows up in a Kikuyu village in Kenya. She helps her grandmother tend to the goats and cows and learns about the origin of her... Read More

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Broom for Two

by Danielle Ballantyne

A little witch discovers that some feats are only possible with the help of a friend in this whimsical picture book. After forgetting her broom outside, the witch can no longer fly it properly; her flying test ends in disaster. When she... Read More

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