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The spotted custard was the kind of place where exceptions were made, because everyone was strange and exceptional. - Reticence by Gail Carriger

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep - Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner by Jessie Hartland

A Worthy Followup to Bird Box - Inspection: A Novel by Josh Malerman

Slightly More Serious Celebrity Memoirs - Too Much Is Not Enough by Andrew Rannells; Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears; Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine

“First I’m going to have a little drinkie, and then I’m going to execute the whole bally lot of you.” - Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary

All That Jazz - Ghosts of Eden Park by Karen Abbott

Yay for Pajibans that write! - Lucky Town by Peter Vonder Haar

When Mouschi the cat goes with his boy, Peter, to a secret annex… - The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller

World of Tents, one pebble and a special friendship - Lubna and the Pebble by Wendy Meddour

An Unflinching Historical YA Fiction of 1969 Malaysia - The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

In Which I Discover Spite Cake. - The Write Escape by Charish Reid

Non-Fiction — People With Interesting Lives - The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein; Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis ; Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

Bringing More Precision to My Captious Bitchiness - Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton

An unattended wound gets infected - There There by Tommy Orange

Baseball In Japan - You Gotta Have WA by Robert Whiting

Scribotherapy - Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story Through Journaling by Michele Weldon

Hold on tight to your dreams - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Life is Beautiful, and Life is Stupid - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Where pastrami and hot dogs come from - Pastrami on Rye by Ted Merwin

Angsty, charming, good….and problematic? - Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Just Cordelia today, Oliver. - Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold

I am so lost. - Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh Margaret. You can do so many things, but rapping is not one of them. (CBR 11 Bingo: Remix) - Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood

Viscerally Real - The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño

Resistance Is Not Futile - Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

The not so distant past - Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery with Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley; The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

More Marlowe - The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Q: What do ye call a pirate with two eyes and two legs? (A: A Rookie! ) - Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten by Lisa Robinson

The Magic Mirror Was Not Amused - The Evil Princess vs. the Brave Knight by Jennifer Holm

Here Comes Santa Claus right down the lane - Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever by Matt Tavares

When your crazy camp founder wants you to find his (possibly real) lost treasure - Pathfinders Society: The Mystery of the Moon Tower by Francesco Sedita

Students, Nonviolence and History Begin Made - March: Book One by John Lewis

“Be happy, but never satisfied.” Bruce Lee - The Boy who Became a Dragon: A Biography of Bruce Lee by Jim Di Bartolo

What’s that I see walkin’ in these woods? Why, it’s Little Red Riding Hood - Red Riding Hood by Beatrix Potter

When the Sugar Plum Fairy meet Alice (well….not really) - The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

“Can I handle the seasons of my life?” Fleetwood Mac LANDSLIDE - Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Lara Jean, you sweetheart - To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han; P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han; Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

Really Unreal (pun intended) - The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey

A true story from right here at home - S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C. by Ruben Castaneda

“The apocalypse began at Starbucks. Where else did you expect the end of the world to start?” - The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

How hard could husbanding be? - Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold; Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric's Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold; Protozoa by Lois McMaster Bujold

“Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese.” ~ IBN BATUTA (FOURTEENTH CENTURY) - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Damn! She thought about him. - Loving Donovan by Bernice L McFadden

He didn’t know anything back then. - If You come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

There was no mustard in the office. - A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie

CBR11Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane) + Two More - The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms; The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms; Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson

More teens taking on social justice, Australian edition! - Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough

No disrespect to Bridget Jones, but Queenie is so much more - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Boardwalk Empire - Casino Moon by Peter Blauner

“Heroism’s just doing more than you want to do or think you can.” (CBR11 Bingo) - Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

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