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Explode Your Hold List with Historical Fiction!

These new historical fiction books really make history come alive! Check them out: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck […]

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Explode Your Hold List with Fantasy & Sci-Fi!

Check out our new Fantasy and Science Fiction titles: Guile by Constance Cooper Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware […]

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Explode Your Hold List with Realistic Fiction!

Check out what is new in realistic fiction: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle  Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before–before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and […]

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2 Cool Crafts for National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month, which takes place each April, is a celebration of poetry introduced in 1996 and organized by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. The Academy of American Poets’ website Poets.org serves as a hub for information about local poetry events during the month. National Poetry […]

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Explode Your Holds! Series Edition

Are you waiting for the elusive “next book” to come out? Check here to see if one of our new continuing series books is on your to-read list: Dove Exiled by Karen Bao (Book 2 of Dove Arising) Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the […]

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Need New Anime?

Check out some of our new titles! Chaika, The Coffin Princess: The end of the war with the Gaz Empire only meant unemployment for former Saboteur Toru Acura.  So when he collides with fate in the form of a young girl carrying a coffin through a forest, it doesn’t take much convincing for Toru and his similarly inclined step-sister Akari to […]