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4 Star Reviews

Games Begin and Games Continue, and All is Well. - Split the Party by Drew Hayes

Great story for the middle school introverts - Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson

A compelling, if largely implausible theory of the Zodiac Killer - The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...And Finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary Stewart with Susan Mustafa

YA Lit, Grief and Trauma: Part II - I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura

It’s certainly not easy - How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

A real-life Miss Hannigan - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Scheming, Snark and a Society on the Precipice - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

“Her. I’ll take her.” - Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare

As for the students, anyone might think we left them bewildered. - On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Tackling Grief and Mental Health Issues in YA Lit - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

How to not annoy while moralizing with folklore - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Superboy Happily Proves Himself - Super Sons Vol. 2: Planet of the Capes by Peter J. Tomasi

Neither Character Is As Awful As I Thought They Were In the Last Book - The Case For Jamie by Brittany Cavallero

Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul! - The Duel; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Most Beautiful Song - Khalida and the Most Beautiful Song by Amanda Moeckel

When other people keep making your point for you. - Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

And that’s what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives. - The Professor's House by Willa Cather

After lunch, Jane and Roche left their house on the Ridge to drive to Thrushcross Grange - Guerrillas by VS Naipaul

“How do you know a gangster?” “Usually, the room goes a little quiet when he walks in.” - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.” - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #1) by Ransom Riggs

The Cellar Door is an Open Throat - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Just your run of the mill novelization, with some deleted scenes. - The Last Jedi (Star Wars Novelizations, #8) by Jason Fry

First Star - First Star: A Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand

The naked man stared at the footprints he had left on his way to his ice bath and then followed them back to the ship. - In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Put up a barrier, she thought, and people gather. - Offcomer by Jo Baker

The Sins of the Fathers - Why Mermaids Sing by C.S Harris

Double Double Toil and Trouble - Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Welsh Legends, Murder and a Useless Regent - When Gods Die by C.S. Harris

A Murder Mystery Set at the Beginning of the Regency - What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

The Life and Times of Ruth - No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Kathleen Krull

Grandma’s Purse - Grandma's Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

The Road Meets the Handmaid’s Tale - The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

You Can Call it Fate or Chance, but We Made it Happen - Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Novel Within a Novel - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Click, Clack Moo I love you Snowball Moon - Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! by Doreen Cronin

Harriet Gets Carried Away - Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima

Another Way to Climb a Tree - Another Way to Climb a Tree by Liz Garton Scanlon

404: Girl Not Found - The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

“I remind myself of the fundamental notion of what it means to be a writer. A writer is the one who controls the narrative.” - When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

Dammit, liane. - The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

There is a cat in this book whose name is Donut. - Head On (Lock In, #2) by John Scalzi

Drama in the suburbs - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

“Crime is common. Logic is rare.” - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Livia is kinda super scary - Livia Lone (A Livia Lone Novel Book 1) by Barry Eisler

These kids are much tougher than I ever would be - Darkest Minds, The (The Darkest Minds series Book 1) by Alexandra Bracken

A Spark to Guide You Forward - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Good Enough For My Needs - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Lisbon by DK

Good ole Nebraska U - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Three Revolutionary War romances. - Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, & Alyssa Cole

Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave - Tomorrow I'll Be Brave by Jessica Hische

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