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Behind closed doors, Claire’s seemingly perfect husband has a harsh temper. A chance meeting in an airport bar with Eva, a woman with equally dire circumstances, leads Claire and Eva to switch tickets with the hope of a head start into a new life somewhere far away.

Reading aloud strengthens family connections and is one of the best ways to be fully present with our children. In this book, you will find the inspiration and resources to start a read-aloud movement in your home.

Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country; This gripping true story tells of Lissa Yellow Bird’s—whose home is a North Dakota Indian reservation recently transformed by the Bakken oil boom—hunt for a oil worker who disappeared from his reservation worksite.

After Emma Djan’s dreams crash down, she becomes a detective at a private agency in Accra—not the future she imagined, but her best option. Meanwhile, Gordon Tilson, a widower in Washington DC, has disappeared after going to visit a young Ghanaian widow he’s met online, and his son Derek is determined to find him.

Elizabeth reels from the news that her sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. Can Elizabeth and the rest of her sisters put their past grievances aside, and is their love powerful enough to save Mary?

Rosie loves her fiancé but is have second thoughts. Her parents Maggie and Nick are determined to wholeheartedly celebrate their daughter’s marriage, but they are hiding that they’re on the brink of divorce. And Rosie’s sister Katie is dreading the wedding, worried that her sister is making a mistake.

Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 pm every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest, and some hosts are more helpful than others.

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life until a demon murdered her friends. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. With the demon still on the loose, Bryce offers Hunt an irresistible deal: help her find the murderer and have Hunt’s freedom within reach.

Becoming your most unattractive self when you hit adolescence is like a rite of passage, but what if you added dental trauma on top of it? Smile recounts Telgemeier's dental nightmares and social struggles she endured between the sixth and ninth grades. Even readers who weren't/aren’t forced to wear braces will identify with the author's troubles with friends, feelings for the boy who ignores her, and difficulties figuring out just who she is.

Suggested Age: 10 and up (dental trauma, surgery/blood, puberty, bullying)

After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the ancient house holds a dangerous magic amulet and a portal to a strange world filled with creepy man-eating monsters, sentient robots, and talking animals. Their way home blocked and their mother's life on the line, what is Emily willing to risk to save the people she loves?

Suggested Age: 10 and up (creepy imagery, death, life-and-death action)

Before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, George Takei was a four-year-old boy and one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government in American concentration camps during World War II. Takei recounts his child-like innocence of the horrific events as well as the political climate and his parents recounted stories; beautifully highlighted by Harmony Becker's black and white illustrations.

Suggested Age: 15 and up (war, dehumanization, racial violence, politics, grief and loss)