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Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

Alternative rock fans will enjoy this book, which is well-suited to most public libraries.
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One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg

An enjoyable account of Diana Rigg’s accomplished career.
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Leaked Footages

The subject matter in this deeply moving, important collection is a heartbreaking reminder of the innocent lives that are constantly affected by violence and terrorism. Sadiq expertly illustrates these experiences, from the regret to the nightmares and the scars.
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The Vedge Bar Book: Plant-Based Cocktails and Light Bites for Inspired Entertaining

Perfect for expert home mixologists or readers looking to improve their cocktail game.
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Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches

Fans of Matheson from the kitchen or TV will love this cookbook filled with great eats, his everyday life, and his love of food.
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Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money

This recommended book, with its technical jargon, aptly contributes to the conversation about revising the policies that financial institutions and services must follow. Ideal for readers who are interested in approaches to improving strategies related to regulations, finance, and government.
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Vegan Japan: 70 Comforting Plant-Based Recipes

Filled with recipes that will tempt Japanese foodies and vegans alike, this cookbook will be in high demand at many libraries.
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Transfarmation: The Movement To Free Us from Factory Farming

This highly recommended title is for readers concerned about current agricultural policies and practices and the future of the nation’s food production.
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The Unofficial Elf Cookbook: From Buddy’s Breakfast Spaghetti to the “World’s Best Cup of Coffee,” Tasty Treats Inspired by a Holiday Classic

A sugar-filled smorgasbord that feels like Buddy wrote it himself. The recipes will bring out one’s inner child with all the fun combinations from Taylor (The Unofficial Home Alone Cookbook).
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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World

Entertaining and enlightening but also a bit prickly, this book is a recommended tour of alternative farms. For readers looking for stories about marginalized people who are trying to thrive in agricultural settings.
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Foraging Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountains: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Mushrooms

A handy guide for readers interested in mushroom foraging. Ecology-minded people and nature lovers will be drawn to this title as well.
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Against the Grain: How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture To Nourish the World and Heal the Planet

This recommended, serious book addresses a devastating issue but still provides hope. The narrative format, with much of the information relayed in the farmers’ own words, ensures that the content will be accessible to most readers.
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Spritz Cocktails: 35 Thirst-Quenching Sodas, Highballs & Sparklers

The market of spritz-focused cocktail books may be oversaturated, but this title contributes a variety of beautifully photographed cocktail options and recipes for both new and experienced readers to make and enjoy.
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Keto Like a Chef: Showstopping Recipes for Your Keto Table

Best for experienced cooks, these are restaurant-quality dishes, with the cost, time, and technique requirements one would expect to see from a chef; for any foodie-turned-keto, the book delivers.
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The Regenerative Agriculture Solution: A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health

Powerful, well-researched, and accessible, this book will appeal to readers who want to know what they can do to stop environmental decline. This title will likely spark discussions about the advantages of regenerative over industrial agricultural practices.
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Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age

This thought-provoking book makes readers think about how much they’re willing to rely on machines in the future.
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Cosmic Self-Care: Spiritual Rituals for Modern Mystics

A lovely book, suitable for readers looking for an accessible entry point into practices such as meditation by grounding into natural cycles and New Age concepts. It’s a bit limited, however, for readers already familiar with the basics.
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Sunset Gratitude: 365 Hopeful Meditations for Peaceful and Reflective Evenings All Year Long

This thoughtful, contemplative title is recommended for most libraries that stock motivational, inspirational, or self-help meditations.
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The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight

With authenticity, McGaha shares her daily life and the joy she finds in it. This title will inspire readers to pause with a new sense of awareness that every moment can provide an opportunity for self-discovery and gratitude when approached with openness and intentionality.
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What’s Next Is Now: How To Live Future Ready

This guidebook is mainly for technology and other professionals who have creative license to develop their own future-ready mindset. He does not discuss the impacts of trauma, racism, poverty, violence, and other issues that may prevent people from taking control of their future. As varied as his contributors are, they all had resources, safety, options, and resources to recover from any mistakes.
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Body Image Inside Out: A Revolutionary Approach to Body Image Healing

This title provides the cozy comfort of a warm cup of chamomile tea. It’s valuable for individuals in need of a body-positive hug, but some readers may find that it lacks the deeper systems-based critiques found in more intersectional approaches to body liberation.
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Our Journey to Sustainability: How Everyday Heroes Make a Difference

Easy to read a little bit at a time when inspiration is needed to continue (or to start) living sustainably. A helpful addition to a sustainable collection that already contains how-to guides.

How To Winter: Harness Your Mindset To Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days

Inveterate winter-haters may not be ready to head to the Arctic yet, but all readers will find that by embracing the seasons that challenge them, they can achieve personal change in beautiful ways.

Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life

A thought-provoking and absolutely essential book for libraries that have robust self-help collections.
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Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived

Blending travelogue, grief journey, and well-researched information on Japanese concepts, this book provides a satisfyingly deep and grounded reflection of her experience that will resonate with readers looking for a new way of connecting with the world.
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You Can Always Come Home: Following the Breadcrumbs of Your Past To Find the Hope for Your Tomorrow

A sweet and comforting read offering a little escape, aimed at a Christian audience. Recommended for general collections.

Knitting with Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You’ll Never Meet

Essential for libraries or bookstores serving creative communities.
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Wonderful World of Paper-Pieced Quilt Blocks: 30 Nature-Inspired Designs and a Beautiful Sampler

These patterns provide countless hours of entertainment and many beautiful quilts. Some of these designs are available for purchase through the author’s website, but everything presented in this highly recommended book is a real bargain.
PREMIUM

Kantha: Sustainable Textiles and Mindful Making

Beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed photos, this book honors a tradition of sustainable creativity through personal reflections, practical information, and interviews with contemporary artists who incorporate kantha into their work.
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Simple Starter Crochet Projects: 3 Easy Patterns for Your First Hat, Scarf, and Cushion

An introductory crochet guide that’s best for readers who have some experience with certain stitches. Pair with The Crochet Workshop by Emma Osmond.
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Metallic Watercolor: Create Shimmering Artwork with Metallic Paints

This book’s gorgeous projects will appeal to artists already experienced in watercolor painting.
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Starter Guide to Tunisian Crochet: Expand Your Crafting Skills with 16 Must-Make Projects

The easy-to-understand directions, up-close color images of finished projects, and instructional photography showing how to complete stitches make this a wonderful introduction to Tunisian crochet. Give to readers who want to learn a new skill or to add to their needle arts repertoire.
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Create with Crochet: Amigurumi Soft Toys

This simple and practical book is best suited for collections lacking in beginning instructional craft books.
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Big Book of Knitted Shawls: 35 Patterns in a Variety of Beautiful Yarns, Styles, and Stitches

This book’s shawls are beautiful, and the patterns are easy to follow. The lack of new content and suitable yarn substitution suggestions, however, might present a challenge for some knitters.
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Quilting Legacy: 12 Reproduction Designs from a Cherished Collection of Antique Quilts

The authors’ popularity and the thoroughness of this quilting volume make it a welcome addition to collections.
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The Last Light over Oslo

Purchase where WWII novels with women protagonists fly off the shelves.
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The Restaurant of Lost Recipes

First published in Japan in 2014, this novel serves as the equivalent of delightful comfort food.
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The Autumn of Ruth Winters

This is a feel-good novel that should appeal to fans of Phaedra Patrick, Jojo Moyes, and Kirsten Miller. Utterly charming. Recommended.

Blue Light Hours

This debut novel is sheer magic, a perfect read. It exudes a palpable warmth, and there’s no waste in verbiage or plot.
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Libby Lost and Found

This novel is a moving reflection on how a deeply rooted sense of brokenness can be a common thread that brings people together. Capturing both the pain and the beauty of their journeys, this title gives readers an insightful, evocative glimpse into the lives of characters affected by memory loss.
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Run with the Wind

This title is not just a story about a marathon; it’s a testament to the power of friendship, resilience, and the beauty of pushing beyond one’s limits. Miura’s writing style is atmospheric, evoking the rhythm of running and the mental and physical endurance required to chase such an ambitious dream.
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Hotline

Readers seeking insight into immigrant experiences will appreciate this novel, which was a bestseller in Canada.
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Soseki Natsume’s Botchan: The Manga Edition

Focused in on a few aspects of its source to a fault, this is an elusive graphic adaptation of a modern Japanese classic.

The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation

Rich with information and buzzing with conviction, this is a memorable and skillful graphic adaptation.
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Split Scream, Vol. Six: Two Novelettes

An easy read with genuinely creepy scares, this is a good addition to libraries that are interested in quality small-press horror. Great companion books would be The Rack, a short-story collection edited by Tom Deady, and Living in Cemeteries by Corey Farrenkopf, which both offer pulp horror sensibilities and extremely palatable style.
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Model Home

This is an intense read with an increasing sense of unease as more and more of the truth is revealed. It will appeal to readers interested in exploring childhood trauma, secrets, and their long-term effects as in Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey or The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher.

Shadows at Midnight

Like a classic Golden Age mystery, this clever, snappy, and enjoyable cozy offers solid characterizations and comical twists and turns.
PREMIUM

The Cat Who Cracked a Cold Case

This third “Conrad the Cat Detective” title (after The Cat Who Solved Three Murders) will satisfy those looking for a book that blends cozy sensibilities and more gritty mystery-thriller elements and explores an unusual crime-fighting partnership.

Where They Last Saw Her

This powerful, provocative novel humanizes the staggering statistics of thousands of Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered. This gripping story is for readers of Rendon’s Cash Blackbear series or Ramona Emerson’s books.
PREMIUM

The Finest Print

Langston is a skilled crafter of scene, plot, and character, and she showcases those talents in this earnest, heartrending novel.
PREMIUM

Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock

Guitarist and songwriter Diggle’s engaging memoir will appeal to fans and music lovers alike.
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Christmas Movie Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Christmas Movie Moments

This quiz book is suitable for circulation if answers are written on a separate piece of paper. An optional holiday purchase for public libraries.

The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust

A thoughtful, motivational guide that gives readers the tools to partner with others to resolve some of the biggest societal problems. It movingly and effectively shows readers that no matter how badly they have failed, they can get back up, dust themselves off, and try again.

Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci aficionados and fly-fishers will rejoice. Ladensohn pulls off explaining the link between these two topics. His highly recommended book effortlessly makes the connections relevant and engaging.
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Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years

A well-researched, engrossing read that demonstrates why the Jewish and Christian communities went their separate ways and how Christianity not only became a spiritual practice but also a political force. Ideal for both religious studies individuals and Bible study groups.
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The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music

Though his book is thought-provoking, Rowell never thoroughly explains the reasons for the fixation on older music beyond the obvious penchant for comforting nostalgia, easy access to past hits through technology, and corporate greed. An interesting but not entirely satisfying book for rock fans.
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Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon

A wonderful read for NBA fans or people interested in the story of a teenager who left his home to pursue his dreams.
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