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Happy World Environment Day 🌎💚
06/05/2026

Happy World Environment Day 🌎💚

Recent release. ❤️📚 From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These.‘Perfect short st...
06/05/2026

Recent release. ❤️📚 From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These.

‘Perfect short stories.’ Anne Enright

‘Breath-taking.’ Irish Times

‘Her stories are as good as Chekhov.’ David Mitchell

A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romantic memory. A farmhand regrets losing the finest woman in town. In this remarkable collection of stories, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past. Pure magic.’ Colm Tóibín

Publisher: &Faber
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHYFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONWinner of the An...
06/05/2026

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.

“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book.

“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged . . . My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose su***de, and both died not far from home.”

There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a time line.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: doing “things that work,” including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death.

This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning. As Li writes, “The verb that does not die is ‘to be.’ Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.” Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.


Publisher:
Literary Collections / Essays
Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
Family & Relationships / Death, Grief,

Recent release. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! An instant indie bestseller! An Indie Next pick!From the Newbe...
06/05/2026

Recent release. An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! An instant indie bestseller! An Indie Next pick!

From the Newbery Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan and Odder comes a stunning middle grade standalone novel-in-verse about compassion, resilience, and surprising friendships, following a dog named Wombat in the aftermath of a catastrophic fire.

Wombat isn’t actually a wombat—but when the homeless dog is discovered, singed and ash-covered after a terrible fire destroys a community, someone tags her with the nickname and it sticks.

Wombat is a “destiny dog.” Something inside of her (she nicknames it “Voice’) keeps telling her there’s a special someone out there who is meant to be her person.

Surrounded by a devastated town, Wombat takes up residence on bench near the makeshift community center, an old brick warehouse that, for the most part, survived the flames. A small part of the community center evacuation site has been repurposed for the local wildlife rehab sanctuary that burned down. All of the animals were spared, and the temporary quarters include an elderly fruit bat and a young Northern saw-whet owl.

No matter what, Wombat refuses to move from her perch, despite the efforts of many humans. Clearly the dog is waiting for someone. But for whom? And what are the odds they survived? Katherine Applegate
Publisher: HarperCollins
Juvenile Fiction / Animals - Dogs / Science & Nature - Disasters / Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings
Ages 8-12

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​​​From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaur...
06/04/2026

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today.

Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse array of species that are present nearly everywhere humans call home—and many places we do not. With their flamboyant plumage, joyous dawn serenades, extraordinary aerial feats, they have captivated human imagination for millennia. Undeniably delicate creatures with hollow bones and thin skin protected by downy feathers, how did such a seemingly fragile species break the bounds of Earth and begin to fly, how have they survived millennia, and how does their legacy shape our world?

Hailed as “one of the stars of modern paleontology” (National Geographic), Steve Brusatte now tells the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs’ living legacy: birds. He begins by exploring how dinosaurs gradually developed the trademark features of birds one-by-one—feathers, wings, beaks, big brains, keen senses, and warm-blooded metabolisms. He investigates why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the cataclysmic asteroid impact 66 million years ago and chronicles how these survivors rapidly proliferated to produce the diversity of avian species we know today.

Along the way, we meet a variety of remarkable – now extinct – species:

10-foot-tall terror birds with beaks that sliced flesh
Elephant birds that lived on Madagascar and laid eggs the size of footballs
Pelagornithid seabirds with 20-foot wingspans
A ferocious Jamaican ibis that used its wings as clubs to attack rivals. .brusatte
Publisher:
Science / Life Sciences - Zoology - Ornithology / Life Sciences - Evolution
Nature / Animals - Birds

New release 🐊📚❤️Multiple-time New York Times–bestselling sewer-surfing super-sleuths Mango and Brash are back in the nin...
06/04/2026

New release 🐊📚❤️Multiple-time New York Times–bestselling sewer-surfing super-sleuths Mango and Brash are back in the ninth volume of the mega-smash-hit InvestiGators series!

The InvestiGators’ latest case is a dairy disaster! The city’s water supply has been replaced with milk and the newest feline agents, the InvestiGatos, don’t seem to be complaining. What’s with the simian scientists and why is the rain green?! All will be revealed in this sticky volume of InvestiGators!
John Patrick Green
Publisher: First Second
Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels - Mystery & Detective / Comics & Graphic Novels - Humorous / Comics & Graphic Novels - Animals
Ages 7-10

Recent release 📚❤️ From #1 New York Times bestselling author Elsie Silver comes a small-town, forbidden, rivals-to-love...
06/04/2026

Recent release 📚❤️ From #1 New York Times bestselling author Elsie Silver comes a small-town, forbidden, rivals-to-lovers romance, the first book in the brand-new Western romance series Emerald Lake.

Professional bull rider Emmett Bush is not looking for love. He’s looking for a paycheck to save his family’s farm from bankruptcy. So, when he agrees to be the leading man on a hot new reality dating show, Romance Ranch, he’s already decided it’s all one big performance.

Until Julia Silva walks onto his property. Smart, snarky, beautiful, and off-limits in more ways than one. As the location consultant on set and the little sister of his most bitter professional rival, she’s the last woman who should pique his interest.

Julia has been warned about Emmett. She knows better than to fall for his cocky swagger, broad shoulders, and smoldering good looks. Plus, she’s sworn off relationships.

But as Julia and Emmett work together, mutual distaste grows into an unexpected connection and then… something more.

Soon, they find themselves searching for excuses to spend time together and out of reach of the cameras. Knowing glances. Stolen kisses. Secret rendezvous.

Still, Emmett signed up to play the role of an eligible bachelor searching for the one. His family’s land and legacy depend on him completing the show.

The problem is, he’s already fallen in love.

Just not with a contestant.

06/04/2026

Take a trip, through a book 📚❤️. Love Chris’s words here 🤗Repost- this applies to movies as well

06/03/2026

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger is in our used book section. It is a book you will never forget. Repost: “No one can take away what you’ve put in your own mind.”

Our dearest Edie passed away in April 27th at the age of 98.

We recently came upon this never-before-seen video of her, and it is pure Edie.

If her story moves you, please carry it forward:

📚Read her books - The Choice, The Gift and The Ballerina of Auschwitz

🌐 support her legacy at edithegerfoundation.com

06/03/2026

We Need Your Art is waiting for you in our art section 📚❤️ Repost In an era where tech can replicate almost anything, the “human mess” is the only thing that can’t be manufactured.

Amie McNee’s TED talk hits hard on this: art isn’t just about the final,

https://youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0?si=svfBNURtKH2kcB2t




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