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Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena 🍁 is a #Loa

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don’t come much richer than Fred and Sheila Mercer. But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mercers are brutally murdered the night after Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.⠀
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Or are they? Each child stands to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their capricious father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of them is more disturbed than anyone knew. Did one of them snap after that dreadful evening? Or was it someone else who crept in with the worst of intentions? It must be. After all, if one of your siblings was a psychopath, you’d know.⠀
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Wouldn’t you?⠀
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The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel is

The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest—and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.⠀
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Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author), “immersive and evocative” (Publishers Weekly), and “gripping” (Tampa Bay Times).⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #KristinHarmel #Historical #GalleryBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Falling by T. J. Newman is a #LoanStars Adult top

Falling by T. J. Newman is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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You just boarded a flight to New York.⠀
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There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.⠀

What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.⠀
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For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.⠀
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The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.⠀
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Enjoy the flight.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #TJNewman #Thrillers #AvidReaderPress #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory is the #1

While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory is the #1 July 2021 #LoanStars Adult top pick! 👏 🥇⠀
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A charming and hilarious new romance featuring Ben Stephens, Theo’s brother from The Wedding Party, and a famous actress as they struggle to keep things purely professional while working together.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #JasmineGuillory #Romance #Berkley #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

The July #LoanStars Adult list is here! 📚 ✨ ⠀
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Meet Your School! by Cindy Jin, illus. by Melissa

Meet Your School! by Cindy Jin, illus. by Melissa Crowton is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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Welcome to the first day of school! Go on a lift-the-flap adventure to discover the fun surprises waiting for kids on their first day of school!⠀
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School is in session! It’s time to begin⠀
a full day of fun, so come right on in!⠀
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This shaped board introduces young readers to all the different classrooms and activities a child can look forward to at school. From a typical kindergarten classroom, to the art room, music room, gymnasium, and cafeteria, little ones can lift the sturdy flaps to reveal a bunch of fun school day surprises!⠀
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The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris is a #Loan

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys.⠀
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Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox.⠀
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With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #NathanHarris #AfricanAmerican #LittleBrownandCompany #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Llama Llama Seasons of Fun! by Anna Dewdney, illus

Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie is a #LoanStars

Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and soft-spoken, with eyes blue as stone-washed denim, Jesse Reid’s intricate guitar riffs and supple baritone are poised to tip from fame to legend with this one headlining performance. That is, until his motorcycle crashes on the way to the show.⠀
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Jane Quinn is a Bayleen Island local whose music flows as naturally as her long blond hair. When she and her bandmates are asked to play in Jesse Reid’s place at the festival, it almost doesn’t seem real. But Jane plants her bare feet on the Main Stage and delivers the performance of a lifetime, stopping Jesse’s disappointed fans in their tracks: A star is born.⠀
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Jesse stays on the island to recover from his near-fatal accident and he strikes up a friendship with Jane, coaching her through the production of her first record. As Jane contends with the music industry’s sexism, Jesse becomes her advocate, and what starts as a shared calling soon becomes a passionate love affair. On tour with Jesse, Jane is so captivated by the giant stadiums, the late nights, the wild parties, and the media attention, that she is blind-sided when she stumbles on the dark secret beneath Jesse’s music. With nowhere to turn, Jane must reckon with the shadows of her own past; what follows is the birth of one of most iconic albums of all time. ⠀
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Shot through with the lyrics, the icons, the lore, the adrenaline of the early 70s music scene, Songs in Ursa Major pulses with romantic longing and asks the question so many female artists must face: What are we willing to sacrifice for our dreams?⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #EmmaBrodie #Literary #Knopf #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

I Want to Be...a Teacher by Becky Davies, illus. b

I Want to Be...a Teacher by Becky Davies, illus. by Richard Merritt is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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Do you want to be a teacher? Open this book to find out what adventures await!⠀
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This inspirational board book invites curious little ones to spend a day in a teacher’s shoes, from getting ready for lessons to teaching art, science, and music classes. The surprise mirror at the end provides a fun, interactive bonus!⠀
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Don’t miss these other I Want to Be…books: I Want to Be…a Firefighter and I Want to Be…an Astronaut!⠀
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Series Overview: The I Want to Be… series explores a day in the life of various professions. Each book includes a surprise mirror ending, captivating the imagination of curious little ones and inviting them to see themselves as the person they want to be.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #BeckyDavies #RichardMerritt #JuvenileFiction #RandomHouseChildrensBooks #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Care Of by Ivan Coyote 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult

Care Of by Ivan Coyote 🍁 is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀
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Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members—letters, Facebook messages, emails, soggy handwritten notes tucked under the windshield wiper of their truck after a gig. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Coyote was grounded by the pandemic, all their planned events cancelled. The energy of a live audience, a performer’s lifeblood, was suddenly gone. But with this loss came an opportunity for a different kind of connection. Those letters that had long piled up could finally begin to be answered.⠀
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Care Of combines the most powerful of these letters with Ivan’s responses, creating a body of correspondence of startling intimacy, breathtaking beauty, and heartbreaking honesty and openness. Taken together, they become an affirming and joyous reflection on many of the themes central to Coyote’s celebrated work—compassion and empathy, family fragility, non-binary and Trans identity, and the unending beauty of simply being alive, a giant love letter to the idea of human connection, and the power of truly listening to each other. ⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #CanLit #IvanCoyote #LGBT #McClellandStewart #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Fly, Tiger, Fly! by Rikin Parekh is a #LoanStars J

Fly, Tiger, Fly! by Rikin Parekh is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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Riku's family have all achieved something special - and Riku wants to be special too. His dream? To be the world's first ever flying tiger!⠀
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Only Riku's friend Jim has doubts . . . Tigers don't have wings. (And Jim should know - he's a parrot!) But Riku is one determined little tiger. With help from Jim and some feathered friends, will Riku make it off the ground and into the air?⠀
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This hilariously funny book from Rikin Parekh celebrates dreams, determination and the power of friendship. It's a must-read for any little person with BIG ambition!⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #RikinParekh #JuvenileFictoin #HachetteChildrens #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

The Layover by Lacie Waldon is a #LoanStars Adult

The Layover by Lacie Waldon is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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After ten years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. She’s got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. But then she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone—the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she’s held a secret grudge against for years—is on her flight. And he has the nerve to flirt with her, as if he doesn’t remember the role he played in the most humiliating night of her life. Good thing she never has to see him again after they land….⠀
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But when their plane encounters mechanical problems, what should have been a quick stop at the Belize airport suddenly becomes a weekend layover. Getting stuck on a three-hour flight with her nemesis was bad enough. Being stranded with him at a luxury resort in paradise? Even with the sultry breeze and white sand to distract her, it will take all the rum punch in the country to drown out his larger-than-life presence.⠀
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Yet the more time Ava spends with him under the hot Caribbean sun, the more she begins to second-guess everything she thought she knew about him…and everything she thought she wanted from her life. And all too soon, she might have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds….⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #LacieWaldon #Romance #Putnam #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Animal Rescue Friends by Gina Loveless & Meika Has

Animal Rescue Friends by Gina Loveless & Meika Hashimoto, illus. by Genevieve Kote is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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Welcome to Animal Rescue Friends, where any stray can find a friendly face—furry or otherwise. This first collection of middle-grade comics includes five tales of found family: A lonely girl living in the suburbs finds happiness with a stray pit bull; a protective mama ferret and her six kits learn to trust a shelter volunteer; a shy boy stands up for himself with the help of a strong-willed bunny; a cantankerous cat helps to mend a troubled relationship; and the shelter's unofficial mascot eventually finds a home. Perfect for animal-loving kids, this adorable comics series will inspire and uplift.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #GinaLoveless #MeikaHashimoto #GenevieveKote #Juvenile Fiction #AndrewsMcMeelPublishing #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten is a #LoanStars Adu

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose—to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods.⠀
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Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again.⠀
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But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood—and her world—whole.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #HannahWhitten #Fantasy #Orbit #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

My Daddies! by Gareth Peter, illus. by Garry Parso

My Daddies! by Gareth Peter, illus. by Garry Parsons is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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A funny, heartfelt picture-book: perfect for introducing children to the different kinds of family there are in the world today, and celebrating story time together.⠀
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Set off on a series of incredible adventures with an adorable family as the stories they read burst into colourful life. Battle dragons, dodge deadly dinosaurs, zoom to the moon and explore the world in a hot air balloon, before winding down in a wonderfully cosy bedtime ending.⠀
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The bouncy, rhyming, read-aloud text is brought to life by bestselling, award-winning illustrator Garry Parsons, illustrator of The Dinosaur that Pooped series.⠀
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The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary is a #LoanStars Adul

The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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What if the end of the road is just the beginning?⠀
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Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since.⠀
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Today, Dylan’s and Addie’s lives collide again. It’s the day before Cherry’s wedding, and Addie and Dylan crash cars at the start of the journey there. The car Dylan was driving is wrecked, and the wedding is in rural Scotland—he’ll never get there on time by public transport.⠀
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So, along with Dylan’s best friend, Addie’s sister, and a random guy on Facebook who needed a ride, they squeeze into a space-challenged Mini and set off across Britain. Cramped into the same space, Dylan and Addie are forced to confront the choices they made that tore them apart—and ask themselves whether that final decision was the right one after all.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #BethOLeary #Romance #Berkley #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Time for School, Little Blue Truck by Alice Schert

Time for School, Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle, illus. by Jill McElmurry is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus on the road. They see all the little animals lined up in the school bus’s many windows, and Blue wishes he could be a school bus too. What a fun job—but much too big for a little pickup like Blue. Or is it? When somebody misses the bus, it’s up to Blue to get his friend to school on time. Beep! Beep! Vroom!⠀
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Also enjoy Blue’s bedtime ride in Good Night, Little Blue Truck and his trip to the city in Little Blue Truck Leads the Way.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #AliceSchertle #JillMcElmurry #JuvenileFiction #HoughtonMifflinHarcourt #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

Survive the Night by Riley Sager is a #LoanStars A

Survive the Night by Riley Sager is a #LoanStars Adult top pick! 🌟⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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It’s November 1991. George Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and twenty-year-old Charlie Jordan is in a Pontiac Grand Am being driven by a serial killer.⠀
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When Charlie’s best friend is the third victim of a serial killer targeting college students, she decides to leave campus. Through a ride board, she connects with Josh Baxter, who will give her a ride from Pennsylvania to Ohio, where he is headed to care for his sick father. As their night of driving unfolds, Charlie feels like something is not right about Josh—and then, it becomes sickeningly clear that a lot of things aren’t right. Josh’s driver’s license has a different name on it, his stories don’t add up, and there is a knife in the glove compartment. Almost certain she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer, Charlie knows she needs to get away from Josh and alert the police. As Charlie plans her escape, she begins to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she’s thinking—and that she could very well end up becoming his next victim.⠀
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What follows is a game of cat and mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there’s nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing—survive the night.⠀
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We Are All Under One Wide Sky by Deborah Wiles, il

We Are All Under One Wide Sky by Deborah Wiles, illus. by Andrea Stegmaier is a #LoanStars Jr. top pick! 🌟 ⠀
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InWe Are All Under One Wide Sky, Deborah Wiles beautifully weaves together images from the natural world in a lovely, lyrical poem. Andrea Stegmaier’s fresh and captivating illustrations feature children from around the globe and celebrate different architecture, landscapes, and activities.⠀
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By the end of the book, children will have internalized the message that although we are from different places, we are the same in so many ways. What we have in common is what is most important—family, laughter, love, nature, and friendship. We all share the same wide sky.⠀
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We Are All Under One Wide Sky is a peace anthem with a timely and important message for children: to both celebrate diversity and embrace how much we all have in common.⠀
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#LoanStars #CanadianLibraries #DeborahWiles #AndreaStegmaier #JuvenileFiction #SoundsTrue #LibraryLife #LibraryLove #LibraryBooks #PublicLibrary #LibraryOfBookstagram #Library #Book #Bookstagram #Books #Bookworm #Booklover #Bookstagrammer #Instabook #BookClub

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