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Kid's Picturebooks, Fiction & Non-Fiction
The Magical Yet
Angela DiTerlizzi; illustrations by Lorena Alvarez
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Lisa Yee
When Stars are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures
Heather L. Montgomery; illustrated by Maribel Lechuga
Water, Water
Cary Fagan; illustrations by Jon McNaught
Love in the Library
Maggie Tokuda-Hall; illustrated by Yas Imamura
Ways to Share Joy
Renée Watson; illustrated by Andrew Grey
Memory Jars
Vera Brosgol
Witchlings
Claribel A. Ortega
As Glenn as Can Be
Sarah Ellis; illustrated by Nancy Vo
I Love You Like Yellow
Andrea Beaty; illustrated by Vashti Harrison
Red, White, and Whole
Rajani LaRocca
Ara the Dream Innovator
Komal Sing ; illustrations by Ipek Konak
Stealing Home
J. Torres & David Namisato
The Sublime Ms. Stacks
Robb Pearlman; illustrated by Dani Jones
Donut: the Unicorn Who Wants to Fly
Laura Gehl; illustrations by Andrea Zuill
The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers
Rachel Poliquin; illustrations by Clayton Hanmer
In Myrtle Peril
Elizabeth C. Bunce
Eyes that Speak to the Stars
Joanna Ho; illustrated by Dung Ho
Adult & Teen Fiction
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
Dead Collections
Isaac Fellman
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
This Woven Kingdom
Tahereh Mafi
The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang
The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood
Twelfth Grade Night
Molly Booth & Stephanie Kate Strohm; illustrated by Jamie Green
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
We Spread
Iain Reid
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Book of Night
Holly Black
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century: Stories
Kim Fu
Demon in the Wood: a Shadow and Bone Graphic Novel
Leigh Bardugo & Dani Pendergast
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
All the Seas of the World
Guy Gavriel Kay
The Echo Man
Sam Holland
Looking for Jane
Heather Marshall
Adult Non-Fiction
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and Creating Calm
Anita Yokota
Painting Can Save Your Life: How & Why We Paint
Sara Woster
Scars & Stars: Poems
Jesse Thistle
Stretching Anatomy
Arnold Nelson G. Nelson & Jouko Kokkonen
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Mayukh Sen
Beyond the Wand: the Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Tom Felton
How to Be Perfect: the Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur
Ammu: Indian Home-cooking to Nourish Your Soul
Asma Khan
How to Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself
Marcus Bridgewater
The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
J. Kenji López-Alt
Visual Thinking: the Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Temple Grandin with Betsy Lerner
You Will Get Through This Night
Daniel Howell
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life From Someone Who's Been There
Tara Schuster
Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood
Jessica Grose
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Dr. Julie Smith
Finding Me
Viola Davis
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