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Get Ready to Dive Into Summer Reading!
We may not be planning our reading for far-flung destinations, but these books will transport you to anywhere their pages take you! So, get... Read more
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  • Befriending Your Monsters by Luke Norsworthy
    Befriending Your Monsters: Facing the Darkness of Your Fears to Experience the Light
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    Release date: May 19, 2020
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    Giveaway dates: Apr 04 - May 04, 2020

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    New Releases in Fantasy

    Shorefall (Founders, #2)
    The Age of Witches
    Sword in the Stars (Once & Future #2)
    Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (Pandava Quartet, #3)
    The Eye of Zeus (Legends Of Olympus, #1)
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    New Releases in History & Biography

    Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
    Set The Night On Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
    American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country
    The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
    Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
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    New Releases in Memoir & Autobiography

    Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
    Themes and Variations
    What We Carry: A Memoir
    Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace
    All Boys Aren't Blue
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    New Releases in Romance

    The Best Week that Never Happened
    Bonds of Brass (The Bloodright Trilogy #1)
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    Starbreaker (Endeavor, #2)
    Meet Me at Midnight
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    New Releases This Month

    Daughter of the Reich
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    Hideaway
    The Girl Beneath the Sea (Underwater Investigation Unit #1)
    Two Truths and a Lie
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    New Releases This Year

    This Is Not How It Ends
    The City We Became (Great Cities #1)
    The Book of Longings
    American Dirt
    The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
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    Recent Award Winners

    The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
    The Priory of the Orange Tree
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    Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (2020)


    Pienen hauen pyydystys by Juhani Karila
    Pienen hauen pyydystys
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    Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2020)


    Ikuisesti, siskoni by Katri Alatalo
    Ikuisesti, siskoni
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    Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2020)


    A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
    A Darker Shade of Magic
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    Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2020)


    Chaucer by Marion Turner
    Chaucer: A European Life
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    Wolfson History Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2020)


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