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Mirage

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Mirage: A Novel (Mirage Series #1) (Hardcover)

By Somaiya Daud
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250126429
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Published: Flatiron Books - August 28th, 2018

 

This is my favorite book right now. In Mirage, Somaiya Daud has crafted a beautiful fantasy (which seamlessly features some sci-fi concepts). The characters feel so alive. The setting and cultures, inspired by her Moroccan heritage, are intricate, beautiful, and refreshingly unique. The story is rich and engaging, but also succinct.

Stacey

DeadEndia

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DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test: Book 1 (Paperback)

By Hamish Steele
$14.95
ISBN: 9781910620472
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Published: Nobrow - August 7th, 2018

 

If you put the Muppets in a theme park and added the heart of Steven Universe and some paranormal energy, you'd get Deadendia. It's an awesome mixture of humor, friendship, self-discovery, and drama with flawed characters you will love as much as your best friends. Heart-warming, heartbreaking, heart-pounding, and heartfelt!

Marika

Eager

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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)

By Ben Goldfarb
$24.95
ISBN: 9781603587396
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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - July 11th, 2018

 

The near eradication of the beaver in Europe and North America has had profound implications for the environment that are finally being recognized. Goldfarb reports on the alliance of scientists, environmentalists, ranchers, and concerned citizens organizing to restoring beaver populations in an effort to solve a host of environmental problems their absence exasperated. Read this book and you will look at our contemporary landscapes in an entirely new way and you may become a Beaver Believer too.

Dale

Darius the Great is Not Okay

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Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Hardcover)

By Adib Khorram
$17.99
ISBN: 9780525552963
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Published: Dial Books - August 28th, 2018

Darius doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, and when he visits his grandparents in Iran for the first time, he expects more of the same. But as he gets to know his extended family and his ancestral country, he starts to believe there can be another way. Darius is a heartfelt, hilarious narrator and his story is unforgettable. Pick this up--you won't regret it.
Rebecca
 

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Feeld (Paperback)

By Jos Charles
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571315052
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 14th, 2018

 

How do you write poetry when the language you’re supposed to write in excludes you? How do you find your voice when at least some of the world denies you even exist? In feeld, Charles invades these questions by building an alternative English, one closer to the overt grammatical chaos of Middle English, that allows for a different kind of exploration into how we make languaged-meaning from who we are as people.

Josh

Seaweed Chronicles

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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge (Hardcover)

By Susan Hand Shetterly
$24.95
ISBN: 9781616205744
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Published: Algonquin Books - August 7th, 2018

 

Don't be fooled - this book is about seaweed but it's really about the whole Gulf of Maine ecosystem - the plants and animals that make it up and the people and corporations who farm, protect, fish, conserve and love this extraordinary and increasingly threatened habitat. And a special bonus - the author will be speaking at PSB on October 9.

 

David

The Goblin Emperor

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The Goblin Emperor (Paperback)

By Katherine Addison
$8.99
ISBN: 9780765365682
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Published: Tor Fantasy - March 3rd, 2015

The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three older sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident," he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving heir. A compelling character in a fascinating fantasy world!

Rebecca

Confessions of the Fox

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Confessions of the Fox: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jordy Rosenberg
$27.00
ISBN: 9780399592270
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Published: One World - June 26th, 2018

 

One part sexy rogue’s tale, one part intellectual exploration of the nature of history, one part examination of how people are marginalized by the powerful, all wrapped up in a tale of frustrated love and surveillance, this wild novel wriggles through genres, tones, and themes like a Dickensian pickpocket disappearing into a crowded London street. You won’t read anything like it this year. One of my favorite books of 2018.

Josh

Class Action

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Class Action (Hardcover)

By Steven B. Frank
$16.99
ISBN: 9781328799203
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Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - April 3rd, 2018

 

I'm an adult, and I should read this keeping in mind the importance of education, and how things that seemed hard years ago weren't that hard in hindsight. But that being said I, like the protagonist, spent many, many days in grade school doing homework from the moment I got home until I went to bed. So I found this book extremely satisfying.

John

Belleweather

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Bellewether (Paperback)

By Susanna Kearsley
$16.99
ISBN: 9781492637134
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - October 2nd, 2018

 

This novel moves between two timelines: a current-day historian is putting together an exhibit at a Long Island house museum (which seems to have a friendly but persistent resident ghost), while during the French and Indian War, a farm family plays host to a captured soldier. Delightfully satisfying romances in both timelines, plus a well-handled discussion of Northern slavery in the 1700s.

Sarah

Luisa Now & Then

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Luisa - Now and Then (Paperback)

By Carole Maurel, Mariko Tamaki
$29.95
ISBN: 9781594656439
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Published: Humanoids, Inc. - June 20th, 2018

 

Luisa is visited by her teen-aged self and the resulting interactions are just as messy and complicated as you might think. Carole Maurel's gestural illustrations and limited palette captures the emotional nuance of such a meeting, while her careful pacing beautifully chronicles the shifting relationship one has with oneself. An exploration of career, sexuality, and family.

Marika

My Solo Exchange Diary

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My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1: The Sequel to My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness (Paperback)

By Nagata Kabi
$14.99
ISBN: 9781626928893
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Published: Seven Seas - June 5th, 2018

 

In this follow up to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, the author struggles to break loose from her family's house and establish some sort of independence. Nagata's sometimes frenzied lines capture the internal stress of depression and loneliness and how they can take over your world. An important look at depression and the role of self-esteem that is both honest and accessible.

Marika

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