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Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell – Book Review
Quick Synopsis – Everybody knows that Cherry’s husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie. Almost nobody knows that he isn’t coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday—a semi-autobiographical webcomic that’s become an international phenomenon. That means there’s a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . “Baby.” Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby.…
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We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower – Book Review
Plot Synopsis – Two years ago, monstrous beings tore through Britain, leaving few survivors. Now Sara and her family live on the run, relying on scraps of folklore and fading pagan rituals to stay safe from the eldritch creatures they call “witches”. Then a strange girl appears in the garden of their current camp. Her…
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The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer – Book Review
Quick Synopsis – Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a modern-day magical Nancy Drew. Book Witches live by a…
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Dog Person by Camille Pagán – Book Review
Quick Synopsis – Harold may be an aging mutt—but Amelia May, the romance novelist who adopted him, taught him a thing or two about the human heart before she died. And she left Harold with a final task: to help her partner, Miguel, find love again. Trouble is, the grief-ridden recluse rarely goes out, not…
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