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The Spy Coast

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸA pitch-perfect spy thriller - so well-written, evocative, and gripping that this reader could literally not put it down. (My first by this very prolific author, and I cannot wait to read more). The epitome of โ€œspookโ€ fiction - with all the undercover terror, subterfuge, violence, duplicity, and psychopathy one…

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Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ This charming cozy mystery is clever, engaging and a tweak on the typical murder-in-an-exotic-location trope. With the madcap moodiness, sinister undercurrent, and dreamy gelato-soaked Italian-esque setting of the fabulous (and slyly referenced) โ€œWhite Lotusโ€, this story is coupled with main characters who are themselves mystery authors, including (and a…

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PageBoy

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ โ€œCan I be a boy?โ€ A question asked by a six-year-old, born a girl, to their mother - without guile - rooted in an innocence that is devastating in its clear-eyed belief in a world that can simply make things right. A world that does not unfortunately, and in…

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Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸโž• โ€œAll I wanted was for you to see meโ€ How to capture the joy of reading this, this collection of more than two dozen tiny perfect literary gems? Each story distinct, but at its heart, this is a cohesive collection - tearing through layers of yearning and isolation, revealing…

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I Send You a Hug

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ When Big Bear has to leave on a trip, itโ€™s clear that being apart from Little Bear could be hard on them both. Faced with that situation, this sweet and loving book shows us solace, in all its many forms. Little Bear learns that his interactions with the world…

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Night Side of the River

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ A wonderful, brilliantly-written, and wildly eclectic collection of ghost-themed short stories, from one of my favorite authors, interspersed with several ghostly introspections based on her own real life experiences. The stories run the gamut from spine-tingling and sinister, to heartbreaking and grieving, all the way to downright reflective and…

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Still I Cannot Save You

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ This candid and beautifully written memoir is a heartbreaking look at family, sisters in particular, and the healing we can and cannot do. As Kelly, an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, comes to terms with her relationship with her maddening, often dishonest and drug-addicted sister, Meghan, itโ€™s not…

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Only If Youโ€™re Lucky

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Moody and evocative, this book is the very essence of a slow burn, best described, in the authorโ€™s own words, as a tantalizingly โ€œslow simmerโ€, bubbling and congealing, before โ€œmorphing into a full-blown boilโ€. Margot, our first person POV, is a strange and disturbingly-repressed narrator. Revealing little, and concealing…

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Leaving

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ A beautifully-written, heartbreakingly twisty tale of star-crossed lovers, who may in fact, now get a second chance to be together, almost forty years after their original romance. Sarah Carson Blackwell is sixty-ish, divorced, with two grown children, and is long used to living alone. (Note: well, not quite alone,…

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Baby X

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Imaginative and intricate, this sci-fi thriller blends a near-future world of inventive hi-tech gadgets and norms (fantastical, but perhaps only barely), with a thoughtful commentary on engineered procreation - in this case labeled โ€œprecision reproductionโ€ - and its affect on the fragile identities of the generations of these humans…

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