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When Helping a Dog Takes More Than a Good Heart

Seeing a dog suffer, most of us would want to do something immediately. Remove the animal, get it somewhere safe, figure out the rest later. But what if intervening means violating an owner’s rights? What if acting too quickly undermines the very case that could protect the dog longer term?…
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November 4, 2026
FictionRecommended

The Strange Business of Free Will

John Merlan thinks he is nearing the end of things: his career is sputtering out (no thanks to his employer), his heart will not keep a steady rhythm, and most of his oldest friends are gone, save one. What remains is the question of what to do with the freedom…
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September 8, 2026
Children's BooksRecommended

Sometimes Dad Is the Biggest Cub of All

Every family has someone who turns a perfectly ordinary afternoon into a bit of a production. In Regina Claire’s Meet the Bears, that someone is Dad — and judging by the spaghetti hanging from his head, he’s already had quite a day. This rhyming picture book introduces the five members…
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November 3, 2026
FictionRecommended

A Story of Redemption on the Yukon

Jack Martin Haley's Allegory is a work long in the making, rooted in stories heard more than sixty years ago in the villages of the Yukon Flats, and given the shape they always deserved. The result is a book about dignity, decline and the human hunger for redemption. At the…
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July 15, 2026
FictionRecommendedThrillers

A Mastermind Meets His Match

Diane Vitullo learned a great deal from her uncle Trevor Hawthorne. He taught her to recognize deception and anticipate an opponent’s next move. Those lessons have served her well as an NSA agent. They become considerably harder to apply when the person she needs to outwit is Trevor himself, especially…
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October 2, 2026
FictionRecommended

An Oliver Twist-Inspired Saga Finds Its Way Home

Blaenavon is a town where clocks tell their own time, the dead remain present and coming home can take more than a century. That makes this Welsh mining town fitting territory for Llanderado! All That Glitters Is Not Coal, the final book in shoeless’s Cranehill Saga, a trilogy loosely built…
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September 23, 2026
FictionRecommended

A Coming-of-Age Story Steeped in a Turbulent Time

Mathew Tekulsky's The Chestnut Tree tackles some of the biggest questions of a generation. Set in the fictional Westchester suburb of Beachmont during the fraught, electric years of 1966 and 1967, the story is narrated by twelve-year-old Adam, a dry cleaner's son who is a lovestruck kid, budding photographer and…
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September 22, 2026