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Hooray, It’s Spring!

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It's Spring
Owen, Ruth
2024
"Visit Mr Green and his young friend and neighbor Mo in their beautiful community garden. Discover how the trees and other plants burst into life as the weather warms up and the days grow longer. Watch the garden's birds, insects, and other wildlife as they search for mates, build nests, and get…
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Spring ABC
Ho, Jannie
2025
Have some springtime fun with this colorful, stylish, and sturdy ABC board book for babies and toddlers. A is for apple blossom, B is for bird, C is for caterpillar, of course! This sturdy board book introduces simple words to get children excited about the start of the spring season. It's the…
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Yaya and the Sea
Good Marable, Karen
2024
On the first day of spring, a young New Yorker, with her mother and aunts, takes the train to the ocean to make an offering of flowers and fruit to Mama Ocean, thanking her for her magnificence, and welcoming the new year.
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This Little Kitty in the Garden
Obuhanych, Karen
2024
Five little kittens enjoy the wonders of spring as they spend time in the garden.
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Five Springtime Stories!
McNamara, Margaret
2025
Butterfly garden. Mrs. Connor's first-graders watch as caterpillars slowly turn into butterflies in the butterfly garden at Robin Hill School.
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On A Snow-melting Day
Seeking Signs of Spring
Silverman, Buffy
2020
The world comes to life on a snow-melting day.

Own Your Health

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Unbreakable
Go Strong, Live Long : A Woman's Guide to Aging With Power
Wright, Vonda
2025
Stronger muscles and bones, increased mobility, lifelong independence and a new mentality for aging with power--this cutting-edge guide to nutrition, training and lifestyle will optimize a woman's body for longevity, through menopause and beyond.
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The New Rules of Women's Health
Your Guide to Thriving at Every Stage
Rabbitt, Meghan
2026
Offers a "new vision for women’s health, offering a step-by-step roadmap for navigating our most pressing health concerns with confidence and ease."--Publisher.
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Floored
A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage
Reardon, Sara
2025
A guide to understanding and managing pelvic floor health. Covering topics such as menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, menopause, incontinence, and sexual health, the book offers clear explanations, self-assessment tools, and practical exercises. With an emphasis on education and…
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The Menopause Manifesto
Own your Health With Facts and Feminism
Gunter, Jen
2021
"The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond. Menopause is not a disease--it…

Awards Season!

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The Academy and the Award
The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Davis, Bruce
2022
"The early history of the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its most famous award--the Oscar--as told by its former executive director who reveals many previously unknown stories"--Provided by publisher.
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Oscar Wars
A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
Schulman, Michael
2023
"In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular…
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Vanity Fair Oscar® Night Sessions
A Decade of Portraits From the After-party
Seliger, Mark
2023
"Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions presents 10 years of luminous photographic portraits of Hollywood celebrities who attended the most exclusive and glamorous after-party of the year in a gorgeous volume. For the past decade, photographer Mark Seliger has set up an elaborate pop-up studio inside…
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50 Oscar Nights
Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-defining Wins
Karger, Dave
2024
"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"-…
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Red Carpet Oscars
Mulhearn, Dijanna
2023
A comprehensive, chronological history surveying over ninety years of fashion on the Oscars red carpet.
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Best Actress
The History of Oscar®-winning Women
Tapert, Stephen
2020

If You Like Wuthering Heights…

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What Souls Are Made of
A Wuthering Heights Remix
Suri, Tasha
2022
"As the abandoned son of a Lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an…
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Anne
2016
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to…
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The Letter From Briarton Park
Ladd, Sarah E.
2022
"In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman's fate when it summons her to Briarton Park--an ancient place that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future... Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and she had made peace with the fact that she never…
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The Betrayal of Thomas True
West, A. J.
2024
It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his…
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Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
2011
A novel about the problems of a young governess, whose love affair with her master is terminated when the terrifying mystery surrounding the upper rooms of their home is exposed.
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Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
2025
"He did not belong to me at all, he belonged to Rebecca. . . Everyone knows that Maxim de Winter was obsessed with his glamorous wife – and devastated by her tragic death. So when he proposes to a shy, anxious young woman after a whirlwind meeting in the South of France, no one is more surprised…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
2017
Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and…
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The Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
2008
"'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London…
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Jane & Edward
A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre
Edwards, Melodie
2023
This "retelling of Jane Eyre, set in a modern-day law firm, is full of romance and hope as it follows the echoing heartbeats of the classic story. A former foster kid, Jane has led a quiet, solitary life as a waitress in the Toronto suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping…
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Schwab, Victoria
2025
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily--her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She…

Arctic Tales

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Polar Exposure
An All-women's Expedition to the North Pole
Aston, Felicity
2022
"The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--
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Beyond the Trees
A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
Shoalts, Adam
2019
"What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's epic, solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season--the first in recorded history. It's also a multilayered story that weaves the narrative of Shoalts's journey into accounts of other…
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Frostlines
A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in A Warming Arctic
Shea, Neil
2025
"In Frostlines, Neil Shea reveals how beauty, chaos, and power of change in the far north are reflected in the individual lives of people and animals. Structured as a revolution around the pole from east to west, Shea sojourns with a wolf pack on Canada's Ellesmere Island and travels among the…
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Perseverance
Life and Death in the Subarctic
Kesting, Stephan
2025
"The Canadian North is a vast and lonely land where bears roam free, fires rage unchecked, and storms blast every living thing on the tundra. When Stephan Kesting, already no stranger to pushing his own physical limits, was faced with a rare illness, he knew the only way for him to recover in both…

So Grumpy!

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Cranky
Tran, Phuc
2024
"Cranky is feeling, well, cranky. But don't ask why. Because you know what doesn't help when you're feeling cranky? Everyone asking you what's wrong! Is there anything that will help? Find out in this irresistible story about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships"--Front flap of…
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A Very Cranky Book
DiTerlizzi, Angela
2023
A snarky tale of a very cranky book that might not be so cranky after all.
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The Best Bad Day Ever
Coppo, Marianna
2023
A grumpy wolf cub has a bad day, until he meets a penguin with a similar disposition.
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The Sour Grape
John, Jory
2022
"The Sour Grape holds grudges for every reason under the sun. Lime never returned a scarf they borrowed? Grudge! Orange never called back? Grudge! But when a friend holds a grudge against the Sour Grape without listening to an explanation, the Sour Grape realizes how unfair grudges can be. Could a…
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Little Grump Truck
Driscoll, Amanda
2021
Little Dump Truck is the happiest member of the crew until she has a bad day, and then her grumpiness affects everyone.
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Grumpy Monkey
Lang, Suzanne
2018
Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.

“Heated” Hockey Reads

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Yours for the Season
Cochrane, Kate
2025
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a…
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Evelyn was raised to see field hockey as war. Before she could write her own name, her family's legacy on the field was already spelled out. Every step Evelyn takes toward glory is within a footprint her mother left behind. And no step matters more than this next one, with Evelyn about to lead her…
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Icebreaker
Graziadei, A. L.
2022
"Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league's top draft spot. The only person standing in his way is Jaysen Caulfield, a…
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Goalie Interference
Gale, Avon
2019
"Ryu Mori has had a stellar season as goalie for the Atlanta Venom. So when he’s called into management’s office, he’s expecting to hear he’s the new starting goalie for the team, not that some new guy—an incredibly hot, annoyingly bratty rookie—is here to compete for his spot. Not everyone gets to…

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