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Author-illustrator of DEXTER Bonnie Kelso's ADRIFT:  FOX'S JOURNEY AT SEA, about a young fox who is swept out to sea in a storm, clings to a piece of driftwood to keep from drowning, and migrates to a remote island populated with other castaways.

Carol C. Darr's MACHIAVELLI 4 EVERYBODY: OUTRAGEOUS, IRREVERENT, AND VERY PRACTICAL ADVICE ON LIFE, LEADERSHIP, & YOUR PRECIOUS CAREER, audio rights sold to Recorded books. 

Reading specialsit and author of AND THEN CAME YOU Christina Shawn's NO HATS ALLOWED, pitched as a Seussian rhyming story about a little girl who makes adorabel matching hats for herself and her cat, prompting the entire town to want to change the rule so they can have one too...only to discover that it's hard to agree

Librarian Rachel Brazaele's AI IN THE ARCHIVES, a deep dive into the world of AI and how it is affecting archival professions in their daily work and as they appear in collections.

Hayan Charara, Carolina Ebeid, Farid Matuk, eds.' NEW RIVERS, a contemporary anthology combining notable poets of Arab heritage into a mosaic of the Arab experience in diaspora sold to Haymarket.

Caitlan Honer's TIDES AND TORMENT, an enemies-to-lovers murder-mystery fantasy in which, while being forced to play husband and wife, a blind god of sight and the assassin he's shackled to realize there's another killer aboard their ship- and they are the next targets.

Enid Baxter Ryce's ANCIENT SPELLS AND INCANTATIONS: ECHOES OF MAGIC THROUGH THE AGES AND ACROSS CULTURES, a book of spells sourced from cultures around the world, translated and interpreted by the author to make the magical incantations accessible to modern readers.

Dylan Aubrey's LESSONS IN ROMANCE, a rivals-to-lovers academic romance about a postdoc fellow teaching a class on the romance novel who finds herself butting heads with a traditional, classics-loving professor. 

Tegan Cassell's POISON HEART, in which a governor's daughter moonlighting as the captain of an all-woman pirate crew teams up with her nemesis to embark on a search for the sea goddess who will save his sister-and her freedom. 

Reshona Landfair's WHO'S WATCHING SHORTY? RECLAIMING MYSELF FROM THE SHAME OF R. KELLY'S ABUSE, exclusive reveal by People Magazine. Read Here. 

RUNAGATE: SONGS OF THE FREEDOM BOUND by Crystal Simone Smith wins Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry by North Carolina Literary Review.

LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS by Ella Grace Foutz receives review from Booklist

BIG ENOUGH is included in the list of 1015 101 Great Books for Kids from Betsy Bird of SLJ's Fuse8 blog and Evanston Public Library.

Steven Varni's ARGH!, in which a grumpy bear has all eh needs or wants within the walls of his garden until a rogue weed's never-ending runner leads him beyond his walls and into the wide world, where he attracts one new friend after another.

LULLABIES FOR THE INSOMNIACS by Ella Grace Foutz receives review from Publishers Weekly.

SLEEPY SEA by Bonnie Kelso receives review by School Library Journal

Reshona Landfair's WHO'S WATCHING SHORTY? RECLAIMING MYSELF FROM THE SHAME OF R. KELLY'S ABUSE, about the author's intimate experience as a young teenager involved with the global R&B superstar R. Kelly in one of the most high-profile sex scandal cases of a generation, and how it impacted her life after he was exposed.

Author-Illustrator of THE OXHERD BOY Regina Linke's THE TAO OF NATURE, a collection of more than 50 modern interpretations of classic Taoist texts illustrated with the author's Chinese gongbi-style brush painting, providing readers a chance to explore the balance and resilience found in nature.