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Ideal for readers who like second chances, complicated loyalties, and emotional romance.
Crossing Arizona
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance
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Xed and Matty have been inseparable since childhood, building a life together with Hannah until Matty makes a decision that tears them apart. Now, Matty wants to repair their relationship, but Xed isn't sure he can forgive him. This MM romance features best friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, queer awakening, and a guaranteed HEA. Ideal for readers who like second chances, complicated loyalties, and emotional romance.
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He was my home when I had nowhere else to go.
Xed
Matty's the only person who ever mattered to me. Since we were seven years old, he's been my rock, my anchor, and the light guiding me to safety when the world got too dark.
Then Hannah was born, and she became the glue holding us in place. It wasn’t perfect, but it was ours—a life we built together.
Until Matty made a choice that shattered it all. Now, I’m adrift, trying to figure out if I can forgive the man who promised me forever but left me behind.
Matty
I swore I’d always protect him—Xed, my best friend, the person who knew me better than I knew myself.
When Hannah came into our lives, I made another promise: to do everything in my power to keep them both safe.
But protecting Hannah meant making an impossible choice, one that tore me away from the only man I’ve ever wanted.
I made a mistake. Now, I’ll do whatever it takes to put the pieces back together…if I can keep from falling apart in the process.
Crossing Arizona is a full-length best friends-to-enemies-to-lovers MM romance containing themes and situations not intended for readers under the age of 18. This story features a queer awakening, black cat/golden retriever MCs, first times, and a guaranteed HEA.
This is book two in the State of Us series. It may be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed after "Finding Delaware" to avoid spoilers.
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Ideal for readers interested in historical nonfiction about racial violence and overlooked American history.
Black Birds in the Sky
Teen + Young Adult
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Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and a YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, Brandy Colbert's account examines the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when a white mob destroyed much of Greenwood, a prosperous Black neighborhood. She traces the racism, media coverage, and political tensions behind the attack and its place in American history. Ideal for readers interested in historical nonfiction about racial violence and overlooked American history.
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives.
In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?
These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors—white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more—a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid–twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today.
The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America—and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward.
YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
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A strong match for readers who enjoy political thrillers featuring international espionage, government intrigue, and high-stakes diplomacy.
State of Terror
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Political Thriller
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An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, State of Terror follows newly appointed Secretary of State Ellen Adams as she investigates a series of terrorist attacks linked to an international conspiracy involving nuclear weapons, organized crime, and political instability. A strong match for readers who enjoy political thrillers featuring international espionage, government intrigue, and high-stakes diplomacy.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise—State of Terror.
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state.
There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.
As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a baffling text from an anonymous source.
Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning.
What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its heels in the international arena.
As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of powerin the places where it counts the most.
To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state.
State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.
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Ideal for readers who appreciate candid memoirs about difficult family relationships, recovery, and personal growth.
Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Biographies & Memoirs
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In Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones recounts her privileged childhood surrounded by literary celebrities, her complicated relationship with an emotionally abusive mother, and her struggle with alcoholism after losing her famous father at sixteen. Through family memories and her own writing, she confronts addiction, grief, and her search for independence. Ideal for readers who appreciate candid memoirs about difficult family relationships, recovery, and personal growth.
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One woman's memoir about her alcoholism and struggle to flourish despite the looming shadow of a famous father and an emotionally abusive, damaged mother.
Her mother was a brainy knockout with sultry beauty, a raconteur whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was the distinguished National Book Award–winning author of four renowned World War II novels. A daughter of privilege with a seemingly fairy-tale-like life, Kaylie Jones was raised in the Hamptons via France in the 1960s and '70s, surrounded by the glitterati who orbited her famous father, James Jones. Legendary for their hospitality, her celebrated parents held court in their home around an antique bar—a French village church's eighteenth-century wooden pulpit—playing host to writers, movie stars, film directors, socialites, diplomats, an emperor, and even the occasional spy.
Her beloved father showed Kaylie the value of humility, hard work, and education. From her mother, Gloria, she learned perfect posture, the twist, and soul-shattering cruelty. When her father died from heart failure complicated by years of drinking, sixteen-year-old Kaylie was lost. She was powerless to withstand her mother's withering barbs and criticism, or halt Gloria's further descent into a bottle—or her own. For years after her father's death, Kaylie denied the blackouts, the hangovers, the rage, the depression. Broken and bereft, she read her father's novels and found the courage to write her own story, addressing her addiction.
Deeply intimate, brutally honest, yet limned by humor and grace, Lies My Mother Never Told Me is a beautifully written tale of personal evolution, family secrets, second chances, and one determined woman's journey to find her own voice—and the ability to embrace a life filled with possibility, strength, and love.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy intricate spy thrillers, political intrigue, and Cold War secrets.
The Scarlet Papers
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Political Thriller · Spy Thriller
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Named a Sunday Times Book of the Year and called “A breathtaking thriller” by Peter James, The Scarlet Papers follows historian Max Archer after a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster Scarlet King. Her offer to reveal decades of espionage secrets leaves Max on the run, fighting to uncover the truth. Ideal for readers who enjoy intricate spy thrillers, political intrigue, and Cold War secrets.
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THE BOOK THOSE IN THE KNOW ARE CALLING THE BEST SPY NOVEL OF THE YEAR
*** One of the 50 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR in the Daily Telegraph ***
*** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ***
*** A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ***
‘Superbly constructed in an elaborate twisty spy yarn. It's highly unlikely that there will be a better espionage novel this year’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
'A breathtaking thriller. A classic in the making' PETER JAMES
'Hugely impressive and compelling' WILLIAM BOYD
‘A natural-born storyteller’ JEFFERY DEAVER
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London, present day
Historian Max Archer is invited to a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster, Scarlet King.
Her offer to share the explosive secrets born of over half a century at the heart of global espionage would be life-changing.
But Max has little reason to trust a woman whose name is a byword for deceit and ruthlessness.
Soon he is on the wrong side of the law and on the run. As the net closes tighter around him he must somehow discover the truth.
Because it’s not just his life on the line – but also the fate of the Western world…
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‘Intricate and fast moving, it weaves a thrilling spell’ DAILY MAIL
'Smart, slick and totally gripping . . . The Scarlet Papers is always credible, always startling and almost painfully human. A total triumph' TONY PARSONS
'A masterpiece' TIM GLISTER
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Ideal for readers who enjoy Gothic suspense, family secrets, and unsettling mysteries.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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An instant New York Times bestseller and a New York Public Library Best Book of 2019, called a “perfectly executed suspense tale” by The Washington Post. When tarot card reader Hal receives an inheritance letter meant for someone else, she considers using her cold-reading skills to claim the money. But at the funeral, she discovers a disturbing family mystery. Ideal for readers who enjoy Gothic suspense, family secrets, and unsettling mysteries.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2019
A “perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Turn of the Key.
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of a dark family mystery.
Full of Gothic atmosphere and spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is a “captivating and eerie page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from the Agatha Christie of our time.
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A fun pick for readers who enjoy hockey romance, celebrity athletes, and awkward romantic mishaps.
Sleet Kitten
Romance · Contemporary Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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After an awkward encounter in Jackson Wilder's basement, a woman finds herself dating a famous professional hockey player. Between a viral kiss cam moment, an embarrassing misunderstanding involving his mother, and growing feelings, she's falling for Jackson but isn't sure he's serious about her. A fun pick for readers who enjoy hockey romance, celebrity athletes, and awkward romantic mishaps.
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There are a few things that life doesn’t prepare you for. Like what to do when a super-hot guy catches you sneaking around in his basement. Or what to do when a mysterious package shows up with tickets to a hockey game because, apparently, he’s a professional athlete. Or how to handle it when you get to the game and realize he’s freaking famous since half of the 20,000 people in the stands are wearing his jersey.
I thought I was a well-adjusted adult, reasonably prepared for life. But one date with Jackson Wilder, a viral video, and a “I didn’t know she was your mom” incident, and I’m suddenly questioning everything I thought I knew.
But he’s fun. And great. And I think I might be falling for him.
But I don’t know if he’s falling for me, too, or if he’s as much of a player off the ice as on.
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Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, grumpy heroes, and unresolved feelings.
The Last Guy On Earth
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Bisexual Romance · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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A surprise hockey trade reunites star goalie Jethro Hale with Coach Clay Powers, fifteen years after their secret love affair. Their attraction hasn't faded, but a player-coach romance could threaten the team's successful season and both men's careers. Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with second chances, forbidden attraction, grumpy heroes, and unresolved feelings.
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One cold December day, two men are blindsided by a hockey trade; one is the most decorated goalie in the league, while the other one is the youngest coach in the majors.
Jethro Hale is the last player Coach Clay Powers wants to see on his roster, but the G.M. pulls a fast one. And it's not like he can even explain why. Nobody knows about their love affair fifteen years ago.
Cue the all-star awkwardness, the painful memories and the reawakening of deep feelings on both sides.
Unfortunately, their attraction still burns brightly. But it can never be. A player and a coach? The scandal would overshadow the team’s banner year.
If only they could resist each other…
If you love grumpy heroes, high stakes hockey, struggling single parents and smoldering kisses, grab your copy of The Last Guy on Earth.
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Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with forbidden attraction, workplace complications, and single-dad characters.
The New Guy
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Travis' Picks · Contemporary Romance · Gay Romance · Sports Romance
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Hockey player Hudson Newgate is running out of chances after a string of trades and a disappointing season. His attraction to Gavin, the team's new athletic trainer and a single dad, threatens to complicate his fresh start in Brooklyn. With their jobs, family responsibilities, and Hudson's father's disapproval standing in the way, keeping things professional won't be easy. Best for readers who like MM hockey romance with forbidden attraction, workplace complications, and single-dad characters.
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A new male / male hockey romance from 24-time USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen!
My name is Hudson Newgate, but my teammates call me New Guy.
That was my nickname in Chicago, too. And Vancouver. That’s what happens when you keep getting traded. Brooklyn is my last chance, especially after my poor performance last season.
But I can make this work. The new guy knows to keep his head down and shoot the puck. The new guy puts the game first.
What he doesn’t do is hook up with the other new guy—a hot athletic trainer who lives in my building. Gavin needs this job with my team. He’s a single dad with responsibilities.
We can’t be a couple. My arrogant agent–who’s also my father–will lose his mind if I’m dating a dude. And my team needs me to score goals, not whip up a media circus.
Too bad Gavin and I are terrible at resisting each other…
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Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fantasy, supernatural intrigue, and complicated romance.
Chain of Gold
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fantasy · Paranormal Fantasy
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “richly imagined” by Publishers Weekly. Shadowhunter Cordelia Carstairs travels to London to save her family’s reputation, only to face deadly demon attacks, dangerous secrets, and forbidden love. Trapped in a quarantined city, she and her friends discover powers tied to a dark legacy. Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fantasy, supernatural intrigue, and complicated romance.
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#1 New York Times bestseller
“A pure distillation of fantasy’s enchanting mirror held up to our own truths.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Richly imagined…rife with action, intrigue, and smoldering romance.” —Publishers Weekly
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in The Lost Hours trilogy where evil hides in plain sight and love cuts deeper than any blade. Chain of Gold is a Shadowhunters novel.
Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride.
Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.
But Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before—these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. London is immediately quarantined.
Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers—and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fiction about courageous women, political resistance, and family bonds.
In the Time of the Butterflies
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Hispanic Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Set in the Dominican Republic during the final years of Trujillo's dictatorship, this historical novel follows the Mirabal sisters, Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and Dedé, as they become symbols of resistance. Through their individual stories, Julia Alvarez portrays family life, political activism, imprisonment, and the deadly consequences of opposing the regime. Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fiction about courageous women, political resistance, and family bonds.
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Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters—four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies".
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—“The Butterflies.”
In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression.
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A compelling fit for readers who enjoy music biographies, family memoirs, and stories about women who challenged expectations.
My Mama, Cass
Biographies & Memoirs
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Called “An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon” by Oprah Daily, My Mama, Cass is Owen Elliot-Kugell’s memoir about her mother, Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas. Through family memories, interviews, and archival photos, Owen examines her mother’s music career, struggles with self-esteem, single motherhood, and the rumors surrounding her death. A compelling fit for readers who enjoy music biographies, family memoirs, and stories about women who challenged expectations.
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"The author's love for her mother burns beneath every sentence, illuminating the story from within. An overdue tribute to an underappreciated icon."--Oprah Daily
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “Mama” Cass Elliot
To the rest of the world, Cass Elliot was a rock star; A charismatic, wisecracking singer from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted band, The Mamas & The Papas; A legend of Laurel Canyon, decked out in her custom-made Muumuus, glittering designer jewelry, blessed with a powerful, instantly identifiable singing voice which helped define the sound of the 1960s counterculture movement. But to Owen Elliot-Kugell, she was just Mom.
In the nearly 50 years since Cass Elliot’s untimely death at the age of 32, rumors and myths have swirled about, shading nearly every aspect of her life. In her long-awaited memoir, Owen Elliot-Kugell shares the groundbreaking story of her mom as only a daughter can tell it.
In My Mama, Cass, Owen pulls back the curtains of her mother’s life from the sold-out theaters to behind the closed doors of her infamous California abode. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen, the woman who was known to the world as Cass Elliot was decades ahead of her time: an independently minded, outspoken woman who broke through a male-dominated business, a forward-thinking feminist, and a single parent who embraced motherhood from the moment Owen entered the world. From the closely guarded secret of Owen’s paternity to Cass’s lifelong struggles with self-esteem and weight, to rumors surrounding her mother’s death, Owen illuminates the complex truths of her mother’s life, sharing interviews with the high-profile figures who orbited Cass, as well as never-before-heard tales of her mother and this legendary period of American history.
Featuring intimate family and archival photos as well as interviews and memories from famous friends, fans, and colleagues who loved and respected Cass, this book is both a love story and a mystery, a tale of self-discovery and a daughter’s devotion. At its core, My Mama, Cass is a beautifully crafted testament befitting of Cass Elliot’s enduring cultural impact and legacy, written by the person who knew and loved her best.
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