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    Our Frozen Planet is beautiful companion to the BBC Earth series

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    Space Science Handbook features fun experiments for kids

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    Pick your own quest with Curiosity Chronicles: Time Machine Trouble

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    Kiera Azar’s Thorn Season is strong YA romantasy

    A girl must hide a deadly secret while wooing the king in Thorn Season, the first book in a new romantasy trilogy by Kiera Azar.

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    Erin A. Craig’s A land So Wide is captivating adult fiction debut

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    Space Science Handbook features fun experiments for kids

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    Our Frozen Planet is beautiful companion to the BBC Earth series

    Introduce young readers to the mystery, wonder, and beauty of the quarter of our world that’s frozen in Our Frozen Planet, by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe and Kim Smith. 

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    Sarah M. Eden’s Echoes of the Sea is time-traveling romance

    A modern-day London actor is hurled back to 1803, where a love that defies the centuries awaits in Echoes of the Sea, by Sarah M. Eden.

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    Erin A. Craig’s A land So Wide is captivating adult fiction debut

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