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The short and easy-to-read nature of this book makes it accessible to a wide general audience. Lovers of history and its relation to arts and crafts won't want to put it down.
This practical, comprehensive book is an essential guide that is packed with valuable insights and unique strategies for readers looking to innovate their winter farming practices. It’s a great resource for gardeners, farmers, homesteaders, and curious readers. This work makes a wonderful addition to collections too.
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Cats of the World
An engaging text accompanied by beautiful photographs in which the wonderful settings are secondary to the multitude of cats to swoon over. Best for animal lovers and supporters.
Gardeners of all levels will relish reading about and viewing this wide range of varied, inspirational gardens that are chock-full of all types of plants, reflecting the interests and personalities of their creators.
Leapman is a legend in the fiber arts world, and any new book by her is an essential purchase. The array and diversity of stitches featured here will have crocheters itching to pick up their hook and try them.
Like paint-by-numbers but for drawing figures, this book will be helpful for budding cartoonists and those who want to draw people without a lot of instruction on technique.
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CRUSH Your Money Goals: 25 Smart Money Habits To Save, Invest, and Fast-Track Your Financial Freedom
Joy is a big voice in debt management and personal finance, and her book empowers readers to realize their own lives are worth the investment.
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Dragonfly-Friendly Gardening
Though niche, this brief guide on building and maintaining a dragonfly- and damselfly-friendly environment will circulate well in libraries.
Probably not for the absolute beginner, but accessible for someone who’s made a few quilts. Experienced quilters who prefer structure over spontaneity will find much of value here.
In this straightforward yet sophisticated work, Beck once again demonstrates why Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.”
From sweet starts to the day and simple takes on classics to creative showstoppers, these recipes will appeal to home bakers looking for a variety of sweet treats that they can make without expensive ingredients if they remain attentive to process, ingredient measurements, and bake times.
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Mojave Desert Wildflowers
Flower fans, hikers, and tourists will find this guide extremely helpful for planning their Mojave Desert trip, and it has maximum visual and botanical appeal.
In this charming collection, the pleasure is in the view, delivered with all the quirky, stylistic, color-saturated wonder an Anderson fan could want.
An encouraging program for readers who have found that pushing through hasn’t worked and want a gentler approach to life, coached by an engaging, empathetic, supportive guide.
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50 Things To Do in the Snow
This book offers a range of imaginative and entertaining activities and crafts that will appeal to anyone who loves snow and winter.
Hoeppner offers effective practices for improving communication skills, plus excellent advice on acknowledging nerves and managing anxiety about speaking.
A must have for any collection looking to add a well-written, unexpected, and highly entertaining and delicious take on regional Italian cooking and locale.
A must-have for creative readers, this successful guidebook by a respected artist will find an eager audience.
With so many knitting and crochet books providing expensive yarn recommendations and patterns that depend on precision, this book will satisfy the itch to stitch for people who enjoy a little more freedom and flow without sacrificing form and function.
While this may be a little daunting for inexperienced cooks, it is a must-have for ambitious foodies who love to grill. A fun addition to any library collection.
New York–area libraries with larger travel sections already established will find this a beautiful addition for their patrons to browse through. This book can also be valuable for readers interested in landscape aerial photography.
Like many works on longevity, Smith’s leans heavily into how lifestyle contributes to aging. The actionable steps for incorporating practices into daily life may empower readers to have more nuanced conversations with their doctors about how to embrace health and strength while aging.
This engaging, encouraging, and accessible guide to houseplant propagation will appeal to plant parents everywhere.
While some of these recipes may be too fussy for less-experienced home cooks, Soteriou equips readers with the tools they need to create big, boldly flavored, visually appealing dishes that may mark her as the next iconic vegan of Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s ilk.
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Tidy Up Your Life: Rethinking How To Organize, Declutter, and Make Space for What Matters Most
Though there are many cleaning and tidying books around, this one is particularly astute. It cuts to the chase with foundational advice that makes incremental changes achievable and is recommended for most collections.
Cooks who fell in love with the food of Southern France in Rebekah Peppler’s Le Sud or discovered the joys of cooking in Maine with Erin French’s The Lost Kitchen will be equally enamored with Clark’s loving culinary celebration of the best that California’s Central Coast has to offer.
Worth picking up for Gay’s introspective yet inclusive introduction alone, this new collection provides accessible entry points into feminism and offers even advanced scholars new ways of viewing the complex, intersectional histories of feminist thought, literature, and action.
This book is recommended and appropriate for libraries supporting students and general readers interested in exploring governmental policies from abroad that could work in the U.S.
Emotional, raw, and real, this memoir is a deep dive into one couple’s trials and triumphs to redefine marriage to fit their lives and needs. A valuable addition to memoir collections.
A fresh take on banking that will show readers how credit unions and community banks can improve the social, economic, and environmental situations of the people they serve.
This compelling, evocative book expertly centers queer writing and resilience to imagine new approaches to living during environmental crises. It’s an excellent choice for scholars, students, and general readers of queer studies and ecocriticism. Pair with The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Chow.
Written in clear prose with well-founded arguments, this book, heavily illustrated with archival photographs and drawings, makes an excellent addition to history collections. For general audiences interested in Americana.
Many family photos enliven this engrossing, recommended history that will take readers right into the difficult times it depicts.
Steves’s journal offers a window into time, before travel through the greater Middle East became vastly more complicated. Recommended for Steves’s fans and armchair travelers.
Fascinating insight into the lives of two remarkable women who may be unfamiliar to readers in the United States. Especially recommended for readers interested in biographies about royals.
Allensworth gives readers accessible descriptions of the professional licensing process and attendant problems. She explains the reasons for caring about this weighty topic and suggests solutions.
This well-written, accessible history is a significant contribution to the literature on the American Revolutionary War. Maass’s blend of thorough research, engaging stories, and expert analysis make this book a must, especially for U.S. history readers.
Brilliant, unflinching, and written with the same heady, literary sophistication as Yuknavitch’s novels. Compounded by real moments of narrative vulnerability, this memoir is as much an act of dismembering as it is of remembering.
This scholarly work does a good job of indicating the nuances and the conflict between Okinawa and the U.S.-Japan alliance. Recommended for graduate students and readers interested in modern East Asia.
This exhaustive work will find a readership among specialists, as it details key battles and ideological impetuses of important figures. Sheppard also succinctly explains the reasoning behind crucial events during a turning point in European history.
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The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution
Blending serious scholarship with a chatty and lively narrative style, this introduction to plenary power within the context of relations between the U.S. and Indigenous peoples will intrigue law students, advocates, and general readers.
Using archival records, stories from Maynial’s family, and an interview with the last surviving nurse from the Blue Squadron, this book delivers a gripping, affectionate account of these women’s heroic work. Best for history, gender studies, and human-interest readers.
Green offers a foundational understanding of Black Civil War memory and encourages readers to continue to ask questions and gather more stories before they are further lost to time, thus continuing to dispel misconceptions and misinterpretations. An excellent companion to Levin’s Searching for Black Confederates and Roberts and Kyrtle’s Denmark Vesey’s Garden.
The lack of books on the Boy Scouts largest summer camp makes this deeply personal, captivating, and accessible title an essential addition to true crime collections.
A thought-provoking analysis of modern marketing tactics that empowers consumers to ameliorate its effects. This will appeal to social sciences–based critics of contemporary marketing.
Based on a unique set of sources, this heart-wrenching work should be read by all focused on enslavement studies as well as American and Civil War history.
Ewing’s profound work is a must read for politicians, school board members, education administrators, and teachers. It would also be an excellent addition to professional development and teacher education programs.
Vulnerable yet acerbic, this moving interrogation of the stories that helped Chihaya survive in a predominantly white environment validates the real and raw ways in which books shape people’s internal and external identities in personal, political, psychological, and social ways.
A conversation-generating memoir. Give to readers who enjoyed I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy or Real Americans by Rachel Khong.
This is a highly recommended, necessary read for anyone who finds themself grating against those with different political beliefs. Ross’s book has plenty of potential for discussions and healing relations between friends and family and maybe even strangers too.
Taking a whole-army approach, Sarantakes describes the contributions of all units and levels of command, along with discussions of unit mobility, intelligence, and tactics. This strategy makes for a detailed and comprehensive treatment of a generally under-researched but crucial battle. This deeply researched and well-written work will certainly be enjoyed by readers of World War II history.
An illuminating and vibrant collection of work for scholars of women’s and queer studies, as well as readers interested in women’s empowerment, paganism, and witchcraft.
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The Home Child
A powerful book (winner of Britain’s Writers’ Prize for Poetry in 2023, as well as the Writers’ Prize for overall Book of the Year) that will linger with readers long after the last word.
This is definitely a book for readers familiar with Drysdale and fans of baseball. It’s a good story about a time gone by.
Hooker has survived more in his life than most people, and fans of his music and the blues will appreciate learning his story.
Well thought-out, the selections in this anthology beautifully introduce readers to this special college and to poets deserving of high praise and appreciation.
This book models the research and scholarship needed to more fully represent women in the history of architecture. The result is a richer story of both women in architecture and modernism in the United States.
This is a lovely book that educates and offers beauty. Recommended for plant lovers and Austen aficionados.
This timely retrospective on inner city reality as a cultural phenomenon will appeal to media scholars and crime show fans.
Like physical combat veterans, many on the front lines in Hollywood subsequently seldom talked about their efforts, which makes this book valuable.
This provides a delightful touching off point that is sure to pique curiosity and initiate a deeper dive by readers.
PREMIUM
Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews
Kaufman’s shtick gets repetitive, but readers will gain insight into the world of no-budget cinema.
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Fearless and Free: A Memoir
This dialogue with Baker revels in her poetic and often humorous way of speaking. Pair with Chris Chase and Jean-Claude Baker’s authoritative biography Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart.
This excellent book skillfully showcases Smith’s method for identifying and healing from grief and finding wholeness. It can be read individually or as a study group. Each chapter opens with a quote by an accomplished Black woman, covers an issue that Black women face, infuses God’s Word, provides solutions, and ends with an encouraging letter to Black women.
This title is not merely essential for any collection on popular music or queer history. Savage’s ability to turn a wealth of information into a compellingly readable narrative should make this volume of interest to readers of all stripes.
This work can easily be used for individual and ministry training. In each chapter, specific characteristics of God are explained and demonstrated, followed by a listing of holy habits, reflection questions, and prayers.
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Pink: The History of a Color
A profusely illustrated in-depth history of interest to students of art and art history.
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Skin
While not as well-known as Koja’s The Cipher, this title’s return to print will be welcomed at libraries looking to fulfill the high demand for extreme horror that spotlights depravity in order to reveal human truths, such as in the works of LaRocca, Alison Rumfitt, and CJ Leede.
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Listen to Your Sister
For fans of character-centered, emotional, and thought-provoking horror, such as Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman and A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper. Viel’s novel also has some serious Dark Matter by Blake Crouch vibes that will draw in a wider pool of readers.
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Dead Writers: Stories
This deeply unsettling and insidious psychological horror collection evokes feelings that will linger with readers, similar to Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil or the work of Samanta Schweblin.
A stellar collection for fans of horror that creates connected mythos centered around the horror of a place (see the work of Josh Malerman), as well as for readers who appreciate illicitly alluring, biting short stories that smack them over the head, of the kind written by Sarah Read and Cassandra Khaw.
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Old Soul
Barker’s (The Incarnations) novel offers both sinister ancient evil, such as in Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton, and an emotionally resonant, supernatural thriller asking readers to grapple with mortality, akin to Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo.
Cassidy’s original and thought-provoking take on the werewolf trope will appeal to fans of fast-paced horror featuring strong characterization, such as classic Dean Koontz, the books documented in Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell, and anything by Brian Keene.
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Their Monstrous Hearts
A solid debut to offer enthusiastically to fans of horror framed by dangerous family secrets, such as Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles, Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Now You’re One of Us by Asa Nonami.
This novella has even wider appeal than Bazterrica’s successful debut, Tender Is the Flesh, and it is even more immersive and disquieting, as the apocalyptic climate it describes hits closer to home. Suggest to fans of works as varied as Matrix by Lauren Groff, Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, and anything by Gwendolyn Kiste.
A thought-provoking book serving as a potent biography of a library pioneer and a call to action for library professionals to consider the true cost of systemic biases.
These volumes serve as a rich resource for understanding Christianity’s evolution and influence as Stuart guides readers through Christianity’s impact across centuries and continents. Useful for all levels of scholars on this subject.
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