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Series: Laurier Poetry Current, Climate The Poetry of Rita Wong Paperback Rita Wong 9781771124430 $18.99 POETRY Mar 23, 2021

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour. Wong’s poetry explores the meeting places of life, language, and land—from downtown Vancouver to the headwaters of the Columbia River. Her poems are deeply attentive to places and their names, and especially to the imposition of foreign words on the unceded Indigenous lands of what is otherwise kn... + Read More
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Series: Yara's Spring Paperback Jamal Saeed 9781773214399 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Oct 13, 2020

Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari... + Read More
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Series: Yara's Spring Hardcover Jamal Saeed 9781773214405 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Oct 13, 2020

Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari... + Read More
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Series: Somewhere in the Unknown World A Collective Refugee Memoir Paperback Kao Kalia Yang 9781250296856 $24.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2020

From “an exceptional storyteller,” a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author ofThe Latehomecomer andThe Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a H... + Read More
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Series: The Old Woman Hardcover Joanne Schwartz 9781773062112 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from K - 3 Sep 29, 2020

An old woman shares her home with a scruffy old dog, her best friend and constant companion. One fall day, they go for a walk and the woman throws sticks for the dog. She loves hearing the autumn leaves under her feet and the wind in the trees. She looks up at a crow in the sky and imagines what it might feel like to fly. As the wind comes up and the light begins to fade, she remembers playing outside as a child, never wanting to go in. Suddenly she notices a stunning harvest moon against the darkening sky. The next morning, as she sits outside... + Read More
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Series: Our Little Kitchen Hardcover Jillian Tamaki 9781773062624 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from K - 3 Sep 01, 2020

Tie on your apron!Roll up your sleeves!Pans are out, oven is hot.The kitchen’s all ready,Where do we start?In this lively, rousing picture book from Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki, a crew of resourceful neighbours come together to prepare a meal for their community. With a garden full of produce, a joyfully chaotic kitchen and a friendly meal shared at the table, Our Little Kitchen is a celebration of full bellies and looking out for one another.Includes two recipes and an author’s note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book.
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Series: The Paper Boat A Refugee Story Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771473637 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Sep 15, 2020

New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escape from Vietnam—a journey intertwined with an ant colony’s parallel narrative. At her home in Vietnam, a girl rescues ants from the sugar water set out to trap them. Later, when the girl’s family flees war-torn Vietnam, ants lead them through the moonlit jungle to th... + Read More
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Series: My Day with Gong Gong Hardcover Sennah Yee 9781773214290 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Sep 08, 2020

A day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa. May isn't having fun on her trip through Chinatown with her grandfather. Gong Gong doesn't speak much English, and May can't understand Chinese. She's hungry, and bored with Gong Gong's errands. Plus, it seems like Gong Gong's friends are making fun of her! But just when May can’t take any more, Gong Gong surprises her with a gift that reveals he’s been paying more attention than she thought. With lighthearted, expressive illustrations by E... + Read More
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Series: We Two Alone Paperback Jack Wang 9781487007461 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to sa... + Read More
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Series: Maggie’s Treasure Hardcover Jon-Erik Lappano 9781773062372 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from P - 2 Sep 01, 2020

Maggie finds treasure wherever she goes. Whether it’s a button, a feather or a shiny stone, she picks it up and takes it home. At first the neighbors and city workers are grateful to Maggie for cleaning up; the mayor even gives her an award. But over time Maggie’s collection grows bigger and bigger, until it spills out of her house and garden in an unsightly mess. Her parents tell her “Enough treasure!” and eventually even Maggie realizes that something must be done. Finally, inspired by a bird outside her window, she finds a way to share her t... + Read More
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Series: God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition Hardcover Vivek Shraya 9781551528137 $24.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 01, 2020

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that follows a tender, intelligent, and curious child who navigates the complex realms of gender creativi... + Read More
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Series: Render Paperback Sachiko Murakami 9781551528274 $18.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience. Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating. Journey through dreamscapes in Sachiko Murakami's in... + Read More
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Series: The Diary of Dukesang Wong A Voice from Gold Mountain Paperback David McIlwraith 9781772012583 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 27, 2020

Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong’s written account of life working on the Canadia... + Read More
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Series: Kuroko Paperback Tetsuro Shigematsu 9781772012699 $16.95 DRAMA Aug 03, 2020

A father who feels his family is better off without him … a daughter who retreats completely into the virtual world … a family torn apart by the past with little hope for a future. But each discovers the desire to save each other, and perhaps themselves. From the acclaimed Canadian playwright, comedian, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu, author of the award-winning plays Empire of the Son and 1 Hour Photo, comes a powerful display of theatrical and literary emotion: Kuroko. Maya is a hikikomori (?????), an extreme recluse who hasn’t left... + Read More
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Series: Weekend Dad Hardcover Naseem Hrab 9781773061085 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Aug 01, 2020

“This home is home because my dad is here, and it’s nothing like home because my mom isn’t here,” thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad’s new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it’s Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad.The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine — they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards and spend time at the park. And then they do the same things on Sunday. It is hard to say goodbye at the end of the weekend, but Dad gives his son a letter to remind him tha... + Read More
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Series: Music at the Heart of Thinking Improvisations 1–170 Paperback Fred Wah 9781772012620 $24.95 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens to and notates thinking. From jazz, the unpredictable ad lib driving itself from itself. From a drunken Shaolin monk, the poem as imbalanced tai chi. From Keats’s negative capability, the half-closed eye, the estrangement of language. All intended to bump beyond the end of the word into focus. As a response to readings in contemporary texts, art, and ideas... + Read More
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Series: Golden Threads Hardcover Suzanne Del Rizzo 9781771473606 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 15, 2020

· New from New York Times Notable honoree Suzanne Del Rizzo, the critically acclaimed author of My Beautiful Birds and illustrator of Sun Dog· Inspired by the Japanese art form of kintsugi, or golden joinery, and the ancient philosophy of wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfect things. An author’s note explains more about these ideas· Mixed-media illustrations use fabric and golden threadsWhen a storm sweeps Emi’s beloved stuffed fox away from their mountain home, he ends up tattered and alone on a distant sho... + Read More
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Series: A Last Goodbye Hardcover Elin Kelsey 9781771473644 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 12 Apr 15, 2020

· A gentle and accessible look at the idea of death · Reinforces our connection to nature and the animal kingdomHow do we say goodbye to a loved one after they die? This book broaches a difficult topic in a heartfelt way by exploring the beauty in how animals mourn. From elephants to whales, parrots to bonobos, and lemurs to humans, we all have rituals to commemorate our loved ones and to lift each other up in difficult times.New from the award-winning team behind You Are Stardust, Wild Ideas, and You Are Never Alone, th... + Read More
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Series: You and Me Both Hardcover Mahtab Narsimhan 9781771473668 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 15, 2020

· Inspired by a true story that went viral online· An uplifting book that celebrates diversity· Embraces the joys and innocence of childhoodThis is the story of two classmates who love all the same things: building tall block towers and knocking them down; strawberry jam on toast; jumping into big puddles in their matching boots. The narrator and his best friend, Jamal, might as well be twins—they have so much in common! And they always stick together. When Jamal gets a haircut, his best friend gets his cut t... + Read More
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Series: Broken Stars Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Paperback Ken Liu 9781250297686 $25.99 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYSixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin's ‘Moonlight,’ a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. Hao Jingfang’s ‘The New Year Train’ sees 1,500 passengers go missing on a train that vanishes into space. In the title story by Tang Fei, a young girl is shown how the stars can reveal the future.In addition, three essays explore ... + Read More
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Series: Crossing the Farak River Paperback Michelle Aung Thin 9781773213965 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 11 Apr 14, 2020

Fourteen-year-old Hasina is forced to flee everything she knows in this gripping account of the crisis in Myanmar. For Hasina and her younger brother Araf, the constant threat of Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, is a way of life in Rakhine province—just uttering the name is enough to send chills down their spines. As Rohingyas, they know that when they hear the wop wop wop of their helicopters there is one thing to do—run, and don’t stop. So when soldiers invade their village one night, and Hasina awakes to her aunt's fearful voice, followed by smoke... + Read More
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Series: Crossing the Farak River Hardcover Michelle Aung Thin 9781773213972 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 11 Apr 14, 2020

Fourteen-year-old Hasina is forced to flee everything she knows in this gripping account of the crisis in Myanmar. For Hasina and her younger brother Araf, the constant threat of Sit Tat, the Myanmar Army, is a way of life in Rakhine province—just uttering the name is enough to send chills down their spines. As Rohingyas, they know that when they hear the wop wop wop of their helicopters there is one thing to do—run, and don’t stop. So when soldiers invade their village one night, and Hasina awakes to her aunt's fearful voice, followed by smoke... + Read More
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Series: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Paperback Cho Nam-Joo 9781487006990 $19.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s.Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation:At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother.In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In university, she is a good student who doesn’t get put forward for internships by her professor. In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her man... + Read More
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Series: Everything is Relevant Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 Paperback Ken Lum 9781988111001 $54.95 ART Jan 31, 2020

Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include a letter to an editor, diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues like race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum’s writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments with... + Read More
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Series: Singing Hills Cycle The Empress of Salt and Fortune Paperback Nghi Vo 9781250750303 $17.50 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful...The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPRAPaste Most Anticipated Novel of 2020ALibrary JournalDebut of the MonthABuzzfeed Must-Read Fantasy Novel of Spring 2020With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo'sThe Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.A young royal from the far north, is sent south for ... + Read More
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Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes A Bond Undone The Definitive Edition Hardcover Jin Yong 9781250768865 $41.99 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle f... + Read More
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Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes A Bond Undone The Definitive Edition Paperback Jin Yong 9781250250117 $24.50 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

A Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong's epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes series, published in the US for the first time!In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father’s death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will, to two women. Neither of them is his sweetheart Lotus Huang.Torn between following his heart and fulfilling his filial duty, Guo Jing journeys through the country of his parents with Lotus, encountering mysterious martial heroes and becoming drawn into the struggle f... + Read More
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Series: Dragon Hoops Hardcover Gene Luen Yang 9781626720794 $33.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 - 18 Mar 17, 2020

In his latest graphic novel,Dragon Hoops,New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.Gene understands stories—comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the heroalways wins.But Gene doesn’t get sports. As a kid, his friends called him “Stick” and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men’s varsity team, the... + Read More
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Series: William's Getaway Hardcover Annika Dunklee 9781771473378 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 15, 2020

· New from best-selling author Annika Dunklee · A loving approach to sibling dynamics· Highlights the power of imagination and playWilliam’s little brother, Edgar, always wants to play. But today, William wants some time to himself. William has a big getaway planned: an escape up into his hot-air balloon. It’s the perfect place because Edgar is always afraid to join him. But Edgar decides that today, he wants to come. William is very surprised and extremely disappointed. Edgar over-prepares for the journey. W... + Read More
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Series: Waste Tide Paperback Chen Qiufan 9780765389336 $24.50 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELAward-winning author Chen Qiufan'sWaste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winningThe Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is drowning in the world's trash.She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs — are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capi... + Read More
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Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes A Hero Born The Definitive Edition Paperback Jin Yong 9781250220622 $25.99 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

Now in English for the first time!Set in ancient China, ina world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born… in the first book in the epicLegends of the Condor Heroesseries by the critically acclaimed master of the genre, Jin Yong.After his father—a devoted Song patriot—is murdered by the Jin empire, Guo Jing and his mother flee to the plains of Ghengis Khan and his people for refuge. For one day he must face his mortal enemy in battle in the Garden of t... + Read More
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Series: Salma the Syrian Chef Hardcover Danny Ramadan 9781773213750 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Mar 10, 2020

Newcomer Salma and friends cook up a heartwarming dish to cheer up Mama. All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn’t know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers at the Welcome Center are happy to lend a hand—and a sprinkle of sumac. With creativity, determination, and charm, Salma brings... + Read More
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Series: Pirate Queen A Story of Zheng Yi Sao Hardcover Helaine Becker 9781773061245 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Grade (US) from 1 - 4 Mar 01, 2020

The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet.Over the next decade, the pirate queen built a fleet of over 1,800 ships and 70,000 men. On land and sea, Zheng Yi Sao’s power rivaled the emperor himself. Time and again, her ships triumphed over t... + Read More
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Series: TENDER Paperback Laiwan 9781772012514 $18.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2020

Within the contours of TENDER lie field notes from a life lived across multiple affinities, kinships, and desires. Equally visual and textual, TENDER is a beautifully complex collection spanning thirty years of curious inquiry into our shared human–animal condition. Laiwan traverses diverse terrains – the body, land, language – which are rooted in her courageous and uncompromising history of activism and in experiences of building community across and beyond difference. TENDER offers a radical and decolonizing cleansing of all that oppresses an... + Read More
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Series: The Night Tiger A Novel Paperback Yangsze Choo 9781250175465 $24.50 FICTION Jan 07, 2020

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER“A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.” —Kirkus(starred review)An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin LeeQuick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may fi... + Read More
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Series: Supernova Era Hardcover Cixin Liu 9781250306036 $37.99 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

From science fiction legend Cixin Liu, theNew York Times bestselling and award-winning author ofThe Three-Body Problem, comes a vision of the future that reads “like Ursula K Le Guin rewritingThe Lord of the Flies for the quantum age.” (NPR).In those days, Earth was a planet in space.In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end.Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirt... + Read More
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Series: Dragon Warrior The Dragon Warrior Hardcover Katie Zhao 9781547602001 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 11 Oct 15, 2019

"An exhilarating tale. . . Readers will be enthralled." --J.C. Cervantes,New York Times bestselling author ofThe Storm RunnerA debut novel inspired by Chinese mythology, this middle-grade fantasy follows an outcast as she embarks on a quest to save the world from demons--perfect for fans ofAru Shah and the End of TimeandThe Serpent's Secret.As a member of the Jade Society, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu dreams of honoring her family and the gods by becoming a warrior. But the Society has shunned Faryn and her brother Alex ever since their father dis... + Read More
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Series: The Trouble with Time Travel Hardcover Stephen W. Martin 9781771473323 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 15, 2019

Rosie Revere, Engineer meets Back to the Future with a dash of The Most Magnificent ThingMax and her dog, Boomer, are in trouble. Big trouble. Max has accidentally smashed an heirloom vase: the only treasure her great-great-great-great-great-great-grandma managed to save when her houseboat sank 234 years ago. Max can come clean—or, she can build a time machine! If she travels to the past and smashes the vase then, there will be nothing for her to break in the future. Brilliant! In the time machine—surprisingly easy to construct—Max and Boomer ... + Read More
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Series: Celestial Bodies Paperback Jokha Alharthi 9781487007904 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019

In the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah’s passionate love for his wife goes unrequited; she regards him with a mixture of tolerance and mild amusement. Yet he cannot contend solely with the cares and concerns of a husband and father, haunted as he is by the mysterious death of his mother and vivid recollections of his megalomaniacal father.The couple is orbited by an intricate constell... + Read More
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Series: Cross Ups Rising Star (Cross Ups, Book 3) Paperback Sylv Chiang 9781773213118 $11.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 Oct 08, 2019

The continuing adventures of Jaden, Cali, and the Cross Ups crew. When Jaden gets a call inviting him to Comicon to test out a new version of his favorite game, Cross Ups, he is thrilled . . . sort of. He’ll get to go with his best friend, Cali, they’ll be in New York City, and best of all, he’ll meet his idol and the greatest gamer of all time, Yuudai Sato. But he’s got no time to practice, and worse, his signature moves no longer work. His trip starts to feel less and less exciting, and more and more like one big problem. Jaden has to come up... + Read More
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Series: Cross Ups Rising Star (Cross Ups, Book 3) Hardcover Sylv Chiang 9781773213125 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 Oct 08, 2019

The continuing adventures of Jaden, Cali, and the Cross Ups crew. When Jaden gets a call inviting him to Comicon to test out a new version of his favorite game, Cross Ups, he is thrilled . . . sort of. He’ll get to go with his best friend, Cali, they’ll be in New York City, and best of all, he’ll meet his idol and the greatest gamer of all time, Yuudai Sato. But he’s got no time to practice, and worse, his signature moves no longer work. His trip starts to feel less and less exciting, and more and more like one big problem. Jaden has to come up... + Read More
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Series: I Promise Hardcover Catherine Hernandez 9781551527796 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 8 Oct 01, 2019

Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published her first children's book, M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, in 2015. Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy glory - from dealing with a kid who doesn't want to brush their teeth to looking under the bed for... + Read More
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Series: When Molly Drew Dogs Hardcover Deborah Kerbel 9781771473385 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 15, 2019

One girl’s way to cope with anxiety is a tribute to the power of artOn the night before the first day of school, a pack of stray dogs moves into Molly’s head. They are friendly, but a bit wild. They scamper through her thoughts, yap at the door to her dreams, and scratch at her brain, begging to be let out. So Molly starts to draw them. When Molly draws dogs, she feels better—but not everyone can see the value of her strange habit. Her teacher tells her to focus. A special tutor urges her to concentrate. But Molly can’t erase the dogs, even ... + Read More
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Series: Ricky in the City Where the Wildlife Live Paperback Judith L. Li 9780870719776 $20.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 15, 2019

It’s early fall when Ricky and Ellie travel from their homes in the Cascade Mountains to Portland. Much to their surprise, they find an astounding variety of wildlife during their weekend school exchange. With the help of their new buddies, Jenny and Marcus, the kids explore the city’s habitats, from its streets and gardens, to woodlands, streams, and river banks. Ellie tests her bird-watching skills while Ricky learns ways to sample fish in streams.
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Series: Stargazing Hardcover Jen Wang 9781250183873 $29.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 10, 2019

Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit ofReal Friends andEl Deafo, fromNew York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang.A 2019 New York Public LibraryBest Books for Kids SelectionOne of FORBESBest Graphic Novels of 2019One of NPR's Best Books of 2019Booklist 2019 Editors' ChoiceMoon is everything Christine isn't. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.But after Moon moves in next door,... + Read More
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Series: Stargazing Paperback Jen Wang 9781250183880 $17.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 10, 2019

Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit ofReal Friends andEl Deafo, fromNew York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang.Moon is everything Christine isn't. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soonbestfriends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moo... + Read More