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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

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Series: 3 2 1 Awesome! 20 Fearless Women Who Dared to Be Different Board book Eva Chen 9781250624024 $13.50 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 1 - 3 Oct 06, 2020

Instagram superstar and New York Times bestselling author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes Eva Chen shines a spotlight on 20 amazing women—including Megan Rapinoe, Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Chisholm, Greta Thunberg and more!—in 3 2 1 Awesome! a sassy and fun counting board book, perfect for the youngest of budding feminists.Why stick to counting on fingers and toes when you can count:3 straight sets for Billie Jean King's historic win...2 groundbreaking suffragettes named Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...1 singular, sensation... + Read More
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Series: Dash & Lily Series Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily Paperback Rachel Cohn 9780593301531 $14.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 03, 2020

For Dash and Lily, it's beginning to look a lot like...distance! Just in time for the series release of Dash & Lily on Netflix comes a new helping of love--this time across the pond as best-selling authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan send Dash and Lily to England.Dash and Lily were feeling closer than ever...it's just too bad they're now an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. ... + Read More
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Series: The Enigma Game Paperback Elizabeth Wein 9780735265288 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 03, 2020

A stunning new novel from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wein, featuring a beloved character from the award-winning Code Name Verity; for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland, and unwittingly bringing together four very different people who decide to keep it to themselves. Louisa Adair, a young teen girl hired to look after the pub owner’s elderly, German-born... + Read More
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Series: Instant Karma Hardcover Marissa Meyer 9781250618818 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Nov 03, 2020

In New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her – both good and bad.Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her.Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from ... + Read More
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Series: And the People Stayed Home (Nature Picture Books, Home Kids Book) Hardcover Kitty O'Meara 9781734761788 $25.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 10, 2020

*2021 FAPA President's Book Awards Silver Medalist *Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Children’s Books of 2020 “Kitty O'Meara is the poet laureate of the pandemic”—O, The Oprah Magazine “Kitty O’Meara... is challenging us to grow.”—Deepak Chopra, MD, author, Metahuman “It captured the kind of optimism people need right now.”—Esquire (UK) “A communal beacon of hope.”––Washington Post “An eloquent, heartwarming reflection that will resonate with generations to come.”—Kate WinsletFrom the popular, globally viral prose poem comes a beautifully produc... + Read More
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Series: Maurice and His Dictionary A True Story Hardcover Cary Fagan 9781771473231 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 15, 2020

This is the story of one refugee family’s harrowing journey, based on author Cary Fagan’s own family history. The graphic novel follows a young Jewish boy, Maurice, and his family as they flee their home in Belgium during the Second World War. They travel by train to Paris, through Spain to Portugal, and finally across the ocean to Jamaica, where they settle in an internment camp. All the while, Maurice is intent on continuing his education and growing up to be a lawyer. He overcomes obstacles to find a professor to study with, works toward ... + Read More
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Series: The Library Bus Hardcover Bahram Rahman 9781772781014 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 Nov 24, 2020

Author Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime of 1996-2001. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who, like his own sister, were forbidden to learn. It is still dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the library bus rumbles out of the city. There are no bus seats—instead there are chairs and tables and shelves of books. And there are no passengers—instead there is Pari, who is nervously starting her first day as Mama’s library helper. Pari stands tall to... + Read More
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Series: Pig the Pug Pig the Slob Hardcover Aaron Blabey 9781443182812 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 10, 2020

The world’s greediest Pug returns — and he’s lazier than ever!Pig was a Pugand I’m sorry to sayhe was shockingly lazy.Such a shameful display . . .Pig, the world’s greediest Pug is back—and he won’t get off the couch! Pig spends all day, every day in a horizontal position, binging on snacks and TV. Trevor tries to convince him to come out and play, but Pig won’t budge!Until one day when something happens to get Pig up off the couch once and for all . . .
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Series: Bedtime for Superheroes Hardcover Katherine Locke 9780762469734 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 03, 2020

Superheroes meet bedtime in this fun, entertaining, and sleepy time picture book perfect for young kids fighting the bedtime routine.Being a superhero is hard work! Fighting evil, catching bad guys, saving the day, and it's messy too! After a long day of being a superhero, even the best superhero has to take a bath, wash their superhero clothes, and rest up for another day of saving the world. With punchy words, bouncing lines, and a whole lot of respect for the hard work superheroes do, this is a great bedtime read for all kinds of superhero kids.