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New Year, New Reading Resolutions Looking for ways to deepen your passion for reading in 2024? Here are some enticing resolutions that will elevate your reading experience: New Year, New Worlds: Explore Diverse Genres - Explore a different genre each month, from historical fiction to science fiction, mysteries to memoirs. How far can you expand your reading horizons in 2024? 🌍📖🔭 - Literary Journaling: Reflecting on Reading Experiences - Start a reading journal! Capture your thoughts, favorite quotes, and reflections in a personal notebook, allowing your reading experience to transcend the story. 📝📚✍🏻
- Storytime Moments: Nurturing Young Minds - Commit to sharing the joy of books with the children in your life and community -- boosting literacy, sparking imaginations, and fostering a love for reading. 📚👧👦
- Be Caught Reading: Promote Literacy in Public - Lead by example! Resolve to let your love for reading inspire those around you and start reading in public spaces, from local parks to cozy cafes to the library. Share the power of literacy through the simple act of enjoying a good book.📸 📚✨
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Snow Horses: A First Night Story
by Patricia MacLachlan
On a snowy New Year's Eve, two black horses pull a sleigh through town, spreading love and joy to the community.
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Freedom Soup
by Tami Charles
While helping her grandmother prepare a traditional Freedom Soup to celebrate the new year, a young girl learns about her family's heritage as well as the soup's origins in the Haitian Revolution.
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Tumble
by Celia C. Pérez
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
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Emergency Contact
by Mary H. K Choi
A chance encounter leads Penny and Sam to become each other's emergency contacts and they soon find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
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The Chalice of the Gods
by Rick Riordan
In order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college, senior Percy Jackson must complete three quests - the first of which is to help Zeus' cup-bearer retrieve his goblet before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Everyone Wants to Know
by Kelly Loy Gilbert
When one of her best friends leaks their private conversation to a gossip site, Honor, a member of the famous Lo family, works to repair the damage under claustrophobic public scrutiny, forcing her to decide between loyalty and the life she wants.
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Everyday Quilting: The Complete Beginner's Guide
by Jennifer Fulton
A guide to quilting for beginners includes the tools and supplies needed, tips for selecting fabrics, step-by-step tutorials for machine and hand quilting, piecing techniques, lessons on assembling quilt tops, and a gallery of eleven projects
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Rebecca, Not Becky
by Christine A. Platt
While struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland.
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The Edge
by David Baldacci
Sent to a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA operative who was in possession of countless state secrets, ex-Army ranger Travis Devine, with no one to trust, must unravel a long history of secrets while evading those who want him dead.
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The Gentleman's Gambit
by Evie Dunmore
Living for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage, deeply introverted Catriona finds herself distracted by her father's handsome young colleague, who, unbeknownst to her, is on a mission to take Oxford's ancient artefacts back to his homeland in the Middle East.
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