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  • Everything Amplified

    Everything Amplified

    $25.99

    Sometimes everything feels heavy and uncomfortable. My body, my family, my life . . . And the only thing that releases that weight is music. Nel is fifteen years old, and life is a grind. School is exhausting, social pressures are relentless, and adults are oblivious. Somehow Ludo, Nel’s handsome twin brother, seems untouched by…

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  • Shushu

    Shushu

    $22.99

    A tender exploration of motherhood, memory, and the silences that we choose to ignore. Miri is the exhausted mother of a screaming newborn and four-year-old Frances, who refuses to give up her shushu (pacifier). When her judgmental mother-in-law, Bella, arrives, she’s more of a burden than a help, criticizing mealtimes, bedtimes, and of course, the…

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  • Life (as We Know It)

    Life (as We Know It)

    $21.99

    We think this much is true . . . Once upon a time, before time even existed, all matter in the universe was concentrated on a single point a fraction of the size of an atom. And then? And then it exploded. This sumptuous and poetic celebration of Earth’s origin story tells the remarkable tale…

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  • The Egg Incident

    The Egg Incident

    $19.99

    A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD GOLD STANDARD SELECTION A joyous reversal of the traditional Humpty Dumpty tale of caution! Humphrey is an egg. An egg with very overprotective parents. “Remember Humphrey; never run, never jump and never ever EVER sit on a wall. You remember what happened to your uncle . . . .” Humphrey lives…

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