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Joyride

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Breezy and candid, intimate and expansive, this memoir, by non-fiction writer Susan Orlean, refuses to be typecast. The author, an expert in the art of a quirky sort of storytelling, featuring uniquely interesting real-life characters, places or topics, each of which is are not quite what you’re expecting, will…

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The Approval of Sheep

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gordon Slee is a bit of a loser. Or, at least, he thinks he is. Bullied and taken advantage of by his cretin of a boss, Edward Creaton, and terminally disappointing to his awful parents, Gordon is forty-two years old and has never managed to live up to his…

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Ferdinand Fox Saves the Day

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Six charming stories featuring my new favorite literary unsung hero, Ferdinand Fox (sure to be a favorite of your early reader too). Between these pages, Ferdinand is a busy fox — as he roams the countryside, he rescues a trapped boy, helps a box of kittens find a new…

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How to Get Away with Murder

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 What a treat! A twisted tale like no other this reader has encountered, so compulsively readable you will struggle to put it down. As the title implies, this book features a diabolical author who somewhat cheekily (and exceedingly disturbingly) runs through a list of tips and techniques to show…

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The Wasp Trap

🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 An expertly paced psychological thriller, this book builds to a nail-biter of an ending that absolutely does not disappoint. A compelling read, with a bevy of interesting characters, the story enters on an only-gradually illuminating plot that will keep you guessing, from start to finish. Told in alternating timelines,…

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Wolf, Moon, Dog

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ A cornucopia of all things Dog, I read this gem with a warm doggie on my lap, straight through on a rainy afternoon. And what a delight that was! Crisscrossing time (past and future), and covering myths, historical happenings, re-interpreted poetry, philosophy, Buddhism, science fiction — and all of…

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Best Offer Wins

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ I couldn’t have loved this book more. Brilliantly sardonic, between these pages we will meet the literary world’s currently most interesting first-person POV protagonist, Margo Miyake — a single-minded gleefully narcissistic thirty-eight year old, whose single, overarching goal in her chaotically-controlled life is to own her dream home. With…

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A Rip In Heaven

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Both a searingly intimate memoir and a true-crime story, this book was so hard to put down that I read it in practically one sitting. A heart-rending look at a traumatic crime,and the family involved, written from the vantage point of the author, a sixteen year old teenager at…

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Coping with Cancer in Early Adulthood

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A comprehensive, compassionate look at the specific challenges and approaches targeted to assist patients with early-onset cancer (diagnosed in one who is eighteen to forty-nine years old). As unbelievably challenging as a cancer diagnosis at any age is, the author, a clinical psychologist who has focused her practice exclusively…

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Within This Darkness

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What an ending! What a book! A slim volume, sumptuously threaded with the fantastical — this beautifully crafted read is the first in a trilogy that may be targeted to young adults, but is absolutely loved by this reader (who can barely remember that time period). Dark in parts,…

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