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• Today Loves Food

  Recipes From Americas Favorite Kitchen

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  Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, Carson Daly, Jenna Bush, and the other TODAY show hosts curate a collection of the show’s most popular recipes.

• The Amalfi Curse

  Penner, Sarah

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  As Haven searches for her father’s sunken treasure, she begins to unearth a centuries-old tale of ancient sorcery and one woman’s quest to save her lover and her village by using the legendary art of stregheria, a magical ability to harness the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gandolfini

  Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend

  Bailey, Jason, 1975-

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  A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini from a prominent critic and film historian.

• The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

  Dalrymple, William

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  William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India's oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world.

• The Murder Machine

  Graham, Heather

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  This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online, and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strangers in the Land

  Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

  Luo, Michael

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  From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.

• Odder

  An Otter's Story

  Applegate, Katherine

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  Odder spends her days playing underwater and learning life lessons from her mother. But when Odder’s life takes a dramatic turn, she is rescued by humans. The people are kind and introduce Odder to other rescues. Soon, it’s clear that Odder has a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Comics on Earth. 3, A Song of Swords and Stuffies

  Brallier, Max

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  After one-upping themselves with a triumphant follow-up to their bestselling comic book, the Last Kids on Earth are met with unexpected competition. Skaelka has written her own comic, and it’s selling like hotcakes! Determined to reclaim their #1…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death in the Jungle

  Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

  Fleming, Candace

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  How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bored Panda

  Bender, Mike, 1975-

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  Come along with a tech-obsessed Panda as he goes from having a "boring" no-screens day to a joyful, out-and-about day.

• Orris and Timble

  Lost and Found

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  Orris the rat and Timble the owl are unlikely friends. Each night, Timble visits Orris in the barn and listens to his stories. But Timble is growing up, and one evening, when the owl doesn’t appear as usual, Orris wonders if Timble has forgotten…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreamslinger

  Kim, Graci

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  Amari and the Night Brothers meets Pokémon in this thrilling start to Graci Kim’s brand-new fantasy series where dragons and phoenixes roam the skies of Seoul, meals magically appear based on your mood, and dreams literally come to life

• The Trouble With Heroes

  Messner, Kate

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  Finn Connelly's firefighter dad died two years ago, now he's about to fail 7th grade--and he's acting out. Caught on camera knocking over the tombstone of a legendary mountain climber, he's offered a deal. Climb all 46 mountain peaks in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wish Upon a K-star

  Cho, Kat

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  A spin-off to the best-selling Once Upon a K-Prom, a K-pop idol and an up-and-coming K-drama star must fake date in this fresh and funny romcom that Korean pop culture fans will absolutely swoon over!

• A Mind of Her Own

  Steel, Danielle

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  Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half-French, half-American woman remains true to her own independent spirit in this powerful historical novel.

• Tough Luck

  a Novel

  Dallas, Sandra

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  In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father.

• My Best Friend's Honeymoon

  Wilsner, Meryl

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  This spicy romance features a nonbinary lead, as two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together.