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| | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables longed for friendship with a "kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul." It's the type of rare connection that ought to be cherished once discovered, and it's one that novelist Lynn Cullen depicts tenderly between photographer Eve Arnold and actress Marilyn Monroe in When We Were Brilliant.
Professors Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf cultivate a similarly profound bond through the vigorous debate they present in Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian. After all, negotiating differences is key to any friendship, especially when cohabitating, as Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo learn in their winsome memoir Two Women Living Together. But it's also worth it, because, as the Anne Shirley-obsessed narrator of Virginia Kantra's novel Anne of a Different Island says: "All the likes and comments and shares in the world are no substitute for a good book. Or a true friend."
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 | | Anatomy of an Alibi | | | Ashley Elston |
| | | In this riveting thriller, two women make a pact to help each other, but a murder leaves them both as suspects with only one alibi between them.
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| | Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian | | | Miroslav Volf and Christian Wiman |
| | | Two brilliant professors engage in a gorgeous and insightful exchange in which matters of faith, language, and love are central to their understanding of God and each other.
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| | The Lions' Run | | | Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Jon Klassen |
| | | In this gracefully written middle-grade novel, a French boy joins the Resistance after learning of the Nazi policy to breed "racially valuable" babies parented by teen girls and Nazi soldiers.
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| | The Company of Owls | | | Polly Atkin |
| | | A poet and nature writer shares the grace, beauty, and lessons in her quiet observations of "my neighbours, the owls" in this loving memoir.
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| | | | | | When We Were Brilliant tenderly depicts the friendship between Marilyn Monroe and talented documentary photographer Eve Arnold, who captured the iconic actress in honest, sensitive images.
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| | | | Through insightful exploration of the many facets of grief, This Book Made Me Think of You offers hope without negating what it means to live with unfathomable loss.
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| | | | Exploring the complex emotions surrounding foreign adoption, identity, and motherhood, Korean novelist Cho Haejin's Simple Heart is clear-eyed and full of depth.
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| | | | Virginia Kanter's Anne of a Different Island wraps a captivating romance within an ode to book lovers, especially fans of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
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| | | | A young woman's troubled past resurfaces in this novel of psychological suspense and secrets.
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| | | | Nightshade and Oak rounds out a lesser-known mythological goddess of death, teasing at the lines between humanity and divinity and asking questions about what it means to be alive.
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| | | | A delightfully bookish main character finds community and love when she inherits her estranged grandmother's estate and learns she's part of a long line of small-town witches.
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| | | | Friendship as a basis for cohabitation may seem like a radical idea, but it works for the coauthors of this endearing memoir-in-essays that was a runaway Korean bestseller in 2019.
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| | | | The heartfelt and lyrical Ren's Pencil describes how Ren, after moving from "the East" to "the West," uses storytelling and a pencil to learn to create her own magical "something new."
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| | | | In book one of the chilling Queen of Faces series for YA readers, a mage makes a personal sacrifice to survive and becomes a mercenary charged with taking down an evil dark witch.
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| | | | Tracy Wolff weaves an enchanting middle-grade novel that sets new friendships and dangerous quests against a background of Greek myths.
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| | | | Nani and the Lion, told with rhythm and joy, celebrates courage and resilience in the face of fear.
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| | |  Polly Atkin is a British bookseller and writer whose work delves into themes of living with chronic illness and disability as well as the environment, and considers both access to nature and to the arts. The Company of Owls expounds on topics of solitude, companionship, and the natural world through the lens of some very special neighbors. (continued)
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| | | |  Hudson Talbott, author and illustrator of more than 30 books for young readers, died January 22 at age 76. Among his most notable works are We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, which was adapted into a feature-length animated film by Stephen Spielberg, and an illustrated adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. Born and raised in Louisville, Ky., he began his career in New York City as a freelance designer/illustrator. (continued)
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You and I Are Stars and Night
by Kate Hosford, illus. Richard Jones
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Dear Reader,
As children contend with an increasing number of challenges in our uncertain world, I've become even more interested in writing about the bonds of steadfast love.
For this book, I imagined a story where the wind calls out to a grown-up and child, prompting them to go on a magical nighttime adventure. I used rhyme to heighten the sense of magic and lyricism, and metaphor to reaffirm the grown-up's unbreakable bond with the child: you and I are salt and sea/ boat and sail/ light and moon. Lastly, I wanted the return home to be not just the end of the story, but the beginning of a bigger adventure as the two of them drift into dreamland on an even bigger boat. I hope that children will disappear into Richard Jones' illustrated world, filled with hidden surprises which they will continue to discover upon repeated readings.
"The epitome of a bedtime book." --The Horn Book
"Dreamy… an anchoring bedtime send-off." --Publishers Weekly
--Kate Hosford
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Publisher: Beach Lane Books • Ages 4-8 • List Price: $19.99 HC • ISBN: 9781665940382 • Pub Date: February 3, 2026
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