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THE CEDAR HOLLOW SEED LIBRARY Book One of the Cedar Hollow SeriesSome love stories don't announce themselves. They just quietly show up on a Tuesday.Clara Bennett is the kind of woman who sits on the floor when bad news arrives — not because she's falling apart, but because sometimes your legs just decide they're done. She's been running the Cedar Hollow Public Library for fifteen years, and now the town is threatening to cut its f...

Don't miss this hilarious BL take on the isekai genre!After getting stabbed on the bus, the manga artist Tetsuo Tanaka finds that he has been reincarnated... into the BL manga he created?! Although he quickly runs into the sexually adventurous love interest Takumi, Tetsuo has unfortunately been reincarnated as Atsushi, the promiscuous rival to the canon seme.Although Tetsuo/Atsushi is initially able to successfully make a move on the alluring Takumi, fate/the plot seems to ...

**INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[I've Been Thinking…] is beautiful...I felt your soul on these pages.” –Oprah Winfrey“If you are feeling stuck, lost, or you just need a pick-me-up, this is the book for you. Shriver’s wisdom will fill you up.” —Hoda Kotb, coanchor, The Today ShowThe ideal book for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life.**As a prominent woman juggling ma...

The wannabe-cool, Tamil-nerd vibes of Never Have I Ever meet the hidden life of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim in this funny, poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut from Maria Marianayagam. A Sri Lankan boy’s life spirals out of control when he wins a prize in a stolen candy bar, pushing him to navigate his identity amid his ever-watchful family.?A School Library Journal 2025 Stars So Far list pick!

Lena is Trille’s best friend, even if she is a girl. And there is never an ordinary day when you’ve got a best friend like Lena.Hardly a day passes without Trille and Lena inventing some kind of adventure that often ends in trouble. Whether it’s coaxing a cow onto a boat or sledding down the steepest and iciest hill with a chicken, there is always a thrill—and sometimes an injury—to be had. Trille loves to share everything with Lena, even Auntie Granny’s waffles. B...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW COMMUNITY GARDEN Book Two of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe library is saved. The relationship is new. And then the community center burns down.Two months into whatever she and Leo are calling this, Clara Bennett still finds his coffee cup in her kitchen and his daughter's rain boots in her entryway. It's a little weird. She thinks that's probably a good sign — the kind of weird that means something is real.The...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW SUMMER SOLSTICE Book Four of the Cedar Hollow SeriesTwo years into their marriage, Leo starts photographing the garden at six in the morning. Just a basil leaf, in the dew. Clara watches him from the kitchen doorway and doesn't interrupt.She knows what it means. Leo has spent three years learning that the present tense is temporary. He's not anxious — he's paying attention. He wants a record of exactly this: Ruby's...

A Short Course in Happiness After Loss brings to us a powerful intersection of the science of positive psychology and the wisdom necessary to thrive when facing life’s harshest moments. In poetic, compassionate and yet fearless language, Sirois traverses the territories we most fear—death, exile, disease—and carefully lights pathways toward a happiness that includes the scars of our suffering and the bounty and goodness present within our world. Her work offers each of us, no matt...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HARVEST FAIRE Book Five of the Cedar Hollow SeriesLeo finishes his book on a Wednesday in August and comes downstairs and stands in the kitchen doorway and says nothing. Clara looks at him and knows.Fourteen months. Every morning at five, before anyone else was awake, photographing the thing he loved because he finally understood the difference between saving something out of fear and saving it out of love. The boo...

THE CEDAR HOLLOW HOLIDAY MARKET Book Three of the Cedar Hollow SeriesThe cookbook is done. The garden is permanent. Clara and Leo are married. Everything should feel settled.It almost does.The Cedar Hollow Community Cookbook has just arrived in six boxes on the library's circulation desk — Ruby's drawing on the cover, Emma's recipe on page forty-seven, exactly as they wrote it. The holiday market opens Saturday. The communi...

Follow a young puffling's life from hatching to adulthood and learn about the bustling and precarious world of Atlantic Puffin City in this imaginative nonfiction picture book.On the edge of the sea,There is a nesting island as loud as a city,Where two puffins mate, burrow, and lay their egg.They splash into the oceanAnd dodge nearby predators,Searching everywhere to find food for their hungry puffling.F...

If Eloise saves the willow tree, can its magic save her dad?Nothing about this summer is what eleven-year-old Eloise expected. Stuck at Gee-pa’s farm, she discovers Mama Willow—an enormous weeping willow whose branches shimmer in the sunlight and whisper with secrets. And when Eloise finds her daddy’s childhood journal tucked away in Gee-pa’s attic, she uncovers something even more unexpected: The tree supposedly holds magic. She isn’t sure she believes the journal...