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Fall 2022 Staff Picks

The titles we're most excited about—handpicked for your shelves each season by the IPG Sales & Marketing teams. View on Edelweiss

Biography & Autobiography

Jeoffry

The Poet's Cat

Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written.

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Selected by Kelly Peterson, Director of Digital Strategy

12 Birds to Save Your Life

Nature's Lessons in Happiness

At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realized his perspective on life was slipping. In a moment of despair, he found himself lying on the side of a hill in the rain, alone with his thoughts. Suddenly he hears the song of a skylark. No longer the leading role in his own private melodrama, merely a part in nature's great epic.

By reconnecting with the wildlife all around him and learning to move with the rhythms of the natural world, Charlie discovered nature's powerful ability to heal. Through twelve characterful birds, Charlie shows us there is joy to be found if we know where to look, and how to listen.

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Selected by Chris Conti, Trade Sales Manager

We Can Do Better Than This

35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive? In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices, including Mykki Blanco, Kate Bornstein, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Wolfgang Tillmans and more, explore this question.

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Selected by Pam Harcourt, Publishing and Brand Manager, TSP

Lady Gaga

Applause

Lady Gaga: Applause is a celebration of a true artist of our time. Illustrated throughout with stunning photography and complementary fashion segments, this comprehensive history follows Lady Gaga’s ever-evolving and often unpredictable career, and is testament to her many talents. A must for Little Monsters everywhere.

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Selected by Lauren Acciari, Mass Merchandise Sales Manager

ABBA at 50

An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from humble beginnings in post-war Sweden to global superstardom

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Selected by Lara Alexander, National Accounts Manager

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Cooking

The Modern Hippie Table

Recipes and Menus for Eating Simply and Living Beautifully

Simple + Nostalgic + Sophisticated + Casual = Modern Hippie

Slow down and create a sanctuary at home, using food and conversation to bring people together, strengthen family bonds, and forge lifelong friendships. Containing an array of menus with more than 70 recipes, along with gorgeous, doable decorating ideas, this lifestyle cookbook encourages everyone to find joy in the art of cooking and entertaining in a fun, relaxed, and approachable way.

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Selected by Rachel Townsend, Digital Marketing Coordinator

Little Library Parties

From dinner party feasts and canapes for a crowd, to barbecues and tea parties and that all important morning-after tonic, Kate provides delicious and joyful recipes to share with those you love – as always, inspired by her favorite literature. With beautiful photographs throughout and in a gorgeous, giftable format, this is the perfect book to help you kick off the party season.

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Selected by Kara Brock, Online Content Coodinator

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Games & Activities

My Zodiac Colouring Book

Free yourself of stress and fatigue as you relax and color away!

The lovely illustrations in this book feature these 12 animals to color: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig in the illustrator's fun whimsical style. Some are shown alone, others are depicted in pairs or trios. Comes with a Chinese zodiac guide!

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Selected by John D'Esposito, Senior Special Sales Representative

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Gardening

The Indoor Garden

User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a fully illustrated and inspiring guide to indoor gardening by self-taught plant enthusiast Jade Murray, winner of the 2021 ‘My Chelsea Garden’ Judges' Choice Gold Medal Award. Here you will find invaluable tips and advice for choosing, caring for and propagating houseplants to create your own indoor garden – even if space is tight and you have no prior experience of plants at all.

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Selected by Ilene Schreider, Director, Special Markets

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Health & Fitness

Yoga Animals

32 Poses from the Wild

A stunning celebration and collection of yoga poses, including step-by-step instructions for each, inspired by the natural world which altogether make a full yoga sequence.

Whether you're channeling the flamboyance of a peacock or the pride and power of an eagle, you are part of an old and beautiful tradition, and one that is practiced all over the world.

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Selected by John D'Esposito, Senior Special Sales Representative

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Nature

A Year of Moons

Stories From The Adirondack Foothills

With one foot rooted firmly in the inheritance of nature essays, and another rooted firmly in Bruchac’s Abenaki heritage, this collection is an artifact of a beautiful landscape and the changes it encounters throughout the year—a reflection on the rhythms of the land, the lunar cycles of the year, the plants and animals that surround us, and the connections that link humans, animals and the land. 

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Selected by Kelsey Hagarman, Associate Manager, Content Marketing

The Wild Handbook

Organized by season, The Wild Handbook provides a thoughtful collection of activities to get you back in touch with nature and improve your physical and mental wellbeing. It's an antidote to the stresses of modern life - activities include stargazing, wild swimming, various seasonal crafts, forest bathing, foraging and filling your home with natural materials and air purifying plants.

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Selected by Ilene Schreider, Director, Special Markets

The Spirit of the River

Nature writer and author Declan Murphy'a retreat into the natural world to study one of the most brightly-colored birds during its nesting season, the kingfisher, is not simply for the sake of knowledge: nature is his remedy for managing the world around him—providing balance, solace and direction.

Writing with hallucinatory clarity and singular powers of observation, he brings the beauty and mystery of the animal kingdom to light. His quest becomes the reader’s in the unfolding drama of his search for harmony and knowledge, from mythography to an acute awareness of people’s fragility.

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Selected by Jason Reasoner, Sales Associate

Imminent Domains

Reckoning with the Anthropocene

Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation

Arranged by five central elements of survival—earth, fire, water, air and spirit—these essays refute linearity, just as nature does

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Selected by Kelsey Hagarman, Associate Manager, Content Marketing

The Secret Life of Corals

Sex, War and Rocks that Don’t Roll

When we think of coral reefs we tend to think of beautiful rock-like structures teaming with colorful fish and other marine life. But what exactly are the “corals” in the coral reef? What are these creatures that start out very small and then have the ability to grow large enough to be seen from outer space? Are they animals, plants, microbes, or rocks?

With humor and clarity, David Vaughan takes us on an incredible journey through the secret life of corals to answer these questions, and more. Dive in and prepare to be amazed!

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Selected by Sharon Shell, Director, Library & Education Sales

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Performing Arts

Bring It On

The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously)

For a movie that almost didn’t get greenlit in the first place—Bring It On went on to win the box office its opening weekend, gross more than $90.45 million worldwide, and spawn a half-dozen sequels, a Tony-nominated musical, and a whole new genre of female-led films.

With the support of the filmmakers and producers, author and pop culture expert Kase Wickman accessed Universal's archives and conducted new interviews with cast, crew, and more for a full reveal of all the stories fans will love in this complete history and examination of the legacy of the greatest cheerleading movie almost never made.

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Selected by Rachel Townsend, Digital Marketing Coordinator

Ballet

Live performances allow us to admire ballet’s visual splendor from afar, but rarely are we given the opportunity to study dynamic poses, leaps and lifts in intimate, close-up detail. An inspirational companion for dance aficionados, performing arts enthusiasts and keen photographers, Ballet captures awe-inspiring moments performed by the art form’s most remarkable talents.

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Selected by Ilene Schreider, Director, Special Markets

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Photography

Extinction

Our Fragile Relationship with Life on Earth

Explores endangered and extinct species and the factors threatening them through a behind-the-scenes lens on one of the most important sets of natural history collections in the world, at the Field Museum in Chicago.

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Selected by Mindi Reiff, National Accounts Manager

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Social Science

Working 9 to 5

A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends. The women office workers who rose up to win rights and respect on the job transformed workplaces throughout America. And along the way came Dolly Parton’s toe-tapping song and a hit movie inspired by their work.

Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.

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Selected by Lauren Klouda, Director of Marketing

Dream Rooms

Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its thinking, Dream Rooms invites readers to that place in consciousness where fear and desire, hidden information and common knowledge brush up against each other and are mutually transformed.

Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life, hidden in plain view, hungry for address—what it means to take a stranger's pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating extinctions, to lose your clothes to a moth infestation then buy a duvet made of fossil fuels, to learn your bookshelf is full of work written by rapists and rape apologists, to consider a birth control device as a narrative about bodies and their possibilities, then pull the string.

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Selected by Travis Hale, Sales Coordinator

Britons Through Negro Spectacles

Merriman-Labor takes us on a joyous, intoxicating tour of London at the turn of the 20th century. Slyly subverting the colonial gaze usually placed on Africa, he introduces us to the citizens, culture and customs of Britain with a mischievous glint in his eye. This incredible work of social commentary feels a century ahead of its time, and provides unique insights into the intersection between empire, race and community at this important moment in history.

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Selected by Pam Harcourt, Publishing and Brand Manager, TSP

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Fiction

River of Ashes

Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.

And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux.

The only child of a powerful family, Beau can do no wrong. Star quarterback. Handsome. Charming. The “prince” of St. Benedict is the ultimate catch.

He is also a psychopath.

A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau’s evil grows unchecked. In the shadows of the haunted abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims and ensures their silence with threats and intimidation. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend’s headstrong twin sister, Leslie, who hates him. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize.

As the victim toll mounts, it becomes clear that someone must stop Beau Devereaux.

And that someone will pay with their life.

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Selected by Kelly Peterson, Director of Digital Strategy

River of Wrath

Leslie Moore is struggling to get through her last semester at St. Benedict High. Even her relationship with her boyfriend Derek is falling apart. But after receding floodwaters from the Bogue Falaya River expose the bones of a woman, Leslie becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer.

Sightings of an apparition haunting The Abbey send Leslie and her friends back to the scene of the horrors from last Halloween, but no one is prepared for what they find.

After a stranger—the handsome Luke Cross—arrives in town, another girl goes missing, and the sheriff suspects the newcomer is hiding something. Leslie believes the Devereaux family is connected to everything going wrong in St. Benedict. And she means to uncover the truth, no matter the cost.

Not all secrets can be kept silent. Some eventually find their way home.

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Selected by Kelly Peterson, Director of Digital Strategy

Our Haunted Shores

Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

The shoreline can be a destination for pleasure, but it is also the rife with peril. In this new collection, the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network have curated a chilling literary tour of the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, including tales of woeful shipwreck, lighthouse terrors and uncanny revenants amid the bustle of the harborside.

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Selected by Margaret Gay, Sales Associate, Trade Sales

Playing with Fire

The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

Although best known for the stories of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a remarkable number of weird and supernatural tales. This volume collects Doyle’s most enduring strange stories – ranging from monster encounters and deadly hauntings to dark tales of mesmerism.

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Selected by Margaret Gay, Sales Associate, Trade Sales

The Night Wire

and Other Tales of Weird Media

From the whispering wires of the telegraph and ghostly images of the daguerreotype to the disembodied voices of the phonograph and radio, the new technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave their users miraculous new powers – and new nightmares.

Tracing this fiction of fear from the 1890s to the 1950s, this new collection brings together the best tales of haunted or uncanny media from classic – and unjustly neglected – writers of the supernatural.

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Selected by Margaret Gay, Sales Associate, Trade Sales

Lost In Time

In the future, murderers aren’t sent to prison. They’re sent to the past. Two hundred million years into the past – to the age of the dinosaurs – to live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race.

When his daughter is falsely accused of murder, a scientist travels back in time to try to save her. But there are secrets waiting there. And more than her life is at stake.

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Selected by Lara Alexander, National Accounts Manager

The Gone and the Forgotten

Summer, 1993. In the aftermath of her mother's suicide attempt, 16-year-old Prue must spend the summer holidays on a remote island in the Shetlands with her favorite Aunt and Uncle—a man she's barely met since her aunt married him.

Prue soon finds out that her uncle was the only suspect in the disappearance of a local girl some twenty years ago. As she grows closer to him, she learns there are differing views on how the beguiling Evelyn O'Hara disappeared, but is her uncle innocent?

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Selected by Layne Ruda, National Accounts Sales Coordinator

The Fish

Set in a near future, after a strange storm, fish begin to leave the sea and adapt to live on land.

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Selected by Jason Reasoner, Sales Associate

Bloody Foreigners

London is about to meet the bloody foreigner who won't walk away.

London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A murdered Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown threaten to trigger a race war that the white supremacists of Make England Great Again have been hoping for. They just need a tipping point. He arrives in the shape of Detective Inspector Stanley Low. Brilliant and bipolar. He hates everyone almost as much as he hates himself. Singapore doesn't want him, and he doesn't want to be in London. There are too many bad memories.

Low is plunged into a polarized city, where xenophobia and intolerance feed screaming echo chambers. His desperate race to find a far-right serial killer will lead him to charismatic Neo-Nazi leaders, incendiary radio hosts and Met Police officers who don't appreciate the foreigner's interference. As Low confronts the darkest corners of a racist soul, the Chinese detective is the wrong face in the wrong place. But he's the right copper for the job.

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Selected by Kelly Peterson, Director of Digital Strategy

The Best of World SF: Volume 2

Twenty-nine new short stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-six countries and seven languages, representing the state of the art in international science fiction.

They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, each drawing on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time.

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Selected by Pam Harcourt, Publishing and Brand Manager, TSP

Comics & Graphic Novels

On or Off, Volume 1

They say all's fair in love... and work?!

After joining his friend's startup, university student Ahn Yiyoung never imagined he'd end up presenting their work directly to SJ Corporation, a major company headed by one of the most sought-after talents in the country: Kang Daehyung. It certainly doesn't help that, on top of being a bigshot executive, strikingly handsome Director Kang is his ideal type!

When his presentation fails to go as planned, Yiyoung's desire to impress Director Kang leads him to take desperate measures... and lands him in a whole new mess, tangled up between his personal and professional relationships. How far is Yiyoung willing to go to achieve success in both his love life and his career?

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Selected by Kelly Peterson, Director of Digital Strategy

Poetry

To Drown as a Cure for Thirst

A delicate exploration of grief and how it affects—and is affected by—time and memory.

Touching on themes including loss, healing, personal reflection, mental health, and love, even in the face of the things that haunt us. These pages examine the idea that we can overcome what winter has taken, and that to hurt is simply an act of remembering.

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Selected by Layne Ruda, National Accounts Sales Coordinator

tend

tend is a visceral, playful collection that contemplates fracture—of the physical, and between people, times and places.

Kate Hargreaves plays with the recognizable in our everyday—bodies and homes and relationships—and, in doing so, reminds us of unexpectedness in these complex spaces. tend is an immersive work, as validating as it is illuminating.

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Selected by Rachel Townsend, Digital Marketing Coordinator

Artemis Made Me Do It

Using the framework of tarot and conversation, Trista Mateer approaches myth through a witchcraft-inspired lens and uses it to explore timeless issues like burnout, survival, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore.

Artemis speaks to what is wild and untamed in all of us, and in this new collection, she asks for a moment of calm.

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Selected by Kara Brock, Online Content Coodinator

Children's Fiction

Wizard & Co

Ride the magic elevator to find something special at the enchanted department store, Wizard & Co. Every magical floor is filled with wonderful and spectacular temptations. But the greatest magic of all might be not what you find on the shelves, so expect the unexpected.

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Selected by Jeff Palicki, VP, Director of National Accounts

Whoever You Are

A Baby Book on Love & Gender

Quiet and loud, soft and strong. You being you, there’s no way to be wrong…

What if we made vows to our babies to love them no matter what? What if the world didn't rush in to judge our little ones and instead made them feel truly seen and supported.

With bright, vibrant illustrations and exuberant rhythm and rhyme, Whoever You Are is the ultimate vow every baby will love to grow up hearing.

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Selected by Kara Brock, Online Content Coodinator

Once Upon a Line

With a heartwarming conclusion, Once Upon a Line explores a journey all must take—to discover your true self. With witty wordplay, relatable dialogue, and engaging illustrations, this story helps readers find the confidence and enthusiasm to discover their own identity and purpose.

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Selected by Brad Fish, Library & Education Sales Representative

Miss Demeanor

Someone is nabbing the community cats and holding them for ransom.

Only a week after her harrowing escape from the woman with the long blonde hair and her accomplice, the scary tattooed man, Celia is investigating another crime along with Detective Lieutenant Beth. She gains her first clue from the lovable old Sally McNally, a former NASA scientist with well-meaning but often confused moments.

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Selected by Sharon Shell, Director, Library & Education Sales

The Long-Haired Girl

A long time ago, in a village nestled beneath a mountain, there lived a beautiful girl with long shiny black hair whom the villagers called “Long Hair.”

Let the imaginative paintbrush embark us on a magical journey and discover the warmest heart in the intricate story of this Chinese classical folklore.

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Selected by Brad Fish, Library & Education Sales Representative

The Little Coven

A story of three girls who are different in many ways, but are united by the special bond of friendship. The unique power of female friendship is celebrated as we watch these friends support and uplift each other as they move through life – from children playing at casting spells and making potions to young women coming together to talk and laugh under the stars.

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Selected by Lauren Klouda, Director of Marketing

Baby Animals First Box Set

First ABC Book, First 123 Book, and First Colors Book

A sweet, speckled fawn. A wide-eyed baby gorilla. A stinky little skunk. And many more! The three board books that make up this box set will instill a love of nature while teaching essential early learning concepts. Filled with photos of adorable baby animals paired with playful rhymes, children will delight in learning from a wide array of creatures in these charming books.

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Selected by Lauren Acciari, Mass Merchandise Sales Manager

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Children's Nonfiction

Courageous Queens

10 Untold Stories of History's Boldest Rulers

A story collection about women with power and how they used it.

These fast paced, action packed tales are stories that have been lost, stories that have remained untold. The stories come from around the world and across history, but the single thing they share is that each is, in their own way, about a truly courageous queen.

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Selected by Sharon Shell, Director, Library & Education Sales

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YA Fiction

Problem Solvers

Problem solving with science and math is everyone’s field, and it’s time for the world to see powerful women succeeding in it.

These 15 women are coders and engineers doing amazing work in technical fields, facing impossible problems, unique challenges, and finding solutions.

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Selected by Brad Fish, Library & Education Sales Representative

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