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New Year, New Books!

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As we settle into 2026, a host of new books will help children ring in another year.
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Far from an homage to idyllic landscapes, the pastoral poem reminds readers that peace isn’t a given, but an ideal to establish and maintain.
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The Power of Love in ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’

Charles Dickens’s novella shows how true love withstands the test of human frailty.
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As parents struggle to find ways to get their child’s reading up to speed, read-alouds may be key to fostering a child’s love for the printed text.
To Hear With the Soul: L.M. Montgomery’s Short Story ‘Miriam’s Lover’

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In “Miriam’s Lover,” L.M. Montgomery imagines a love that communicates beyond words, distance, and the physical world.
New Year, New Books!

New Year, New Books!

As we settle into 2026, a host of new books will help children ring in another year.
Nature and Evil in Virgil’s ‘Eclogues’

Nature and Evil in Virgil’s ‘Eclogues’

Far from an homage to idyllic landscapes, the pastoral poem reminds readers that peace isn’t a given, but an ideal to establish and maintain.
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‘Land’: A Novel About How Land Is History and History Is Land

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