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    October 8, 2025

    Tiffany Odekirk’s Winterset is entertaining enemies-to-lovers romance

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    King Arthur’s Sweet & Salty is great cookbook for tweens and teens

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    October 3, 2025

    King Arthur’s Sweet & Salty is great cookbook for tweens and teens

    Bakers rejoice; there’s a new cookbook for young bakers in town: Sweet & Salty! from the King Arthur Baking Company.

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    Jennifer E. Archer explores grief, love in Into the Deep Blue

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    All the Way Around the Sun is thoughtful contemporary YA

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    Jennifer L. Holm’s Outside is great choice for independent reading

    A girl dreams about a world beyond the shelter where her family lives following the Great Poisoning in Outside, a MG novel by Jennifer L. Holm.

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    September 30, 2025

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    September 27, 2025

    Trailblazers tells story of women’s tennis for young readers

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    October 8, 2025

    Tiffany Odekirk’s Winterset is entertaining enemies-to-lovers romance

    An unlikely ghost and a man seeking to make the most out of his life cross paths in Tiffany Odekirk’s new gothic romance, Winterset.

    September 7, 2025

    Sarah M. Eden’s Echoes of the Sea is time-traveling romance

    September 4, 2025

    Erin A. Craig’s A land So Wide is captivating adult fiction debut

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    Heather B. Moore’s Julia is excellent story of Julia Child

    September 3, 2025

    Bea Fitzgerald’s Girl, Goddess, Queen is page-turning YA romantasy

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    Tiffany Odekirk’s Winterset is entertaining enemies-to-lovers romance

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