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4 Star Reviews

Who’s Holding The Phone? - Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

“The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead.” - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark

Evil Wins by Controlling the Narrrative? - Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

Be Careful What You Wish For - The Invisible Life of Addie Laroux by V.E. Schwab

A Novel About Race, Identity, and Satire - Erasure by Percival Everett

Hustled - Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

“In headlines and news copy, we call them “the mentally ill.” In truth, they are our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters. They are us.” - While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” - Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

This whole race of aliens forgot how to have children. CBRBINGO – Celestial - The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

Sug y Saeson - The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh

“Don’t stop beginning. Begin and begin and begin. Begin endlessly—that is, without the taint of even eventual ending.” - All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld

“…all you can truly say of any historical event … is that ‘something happened.’” - The Sense of an Ending: A Novel by Julian Barnes

Camelot Was Always a Lie - Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

I Liked Them Both - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

“What would happen if we spoke the truth?” - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Still relevant 75 years later - 1984 by George Orwell

Ohhh Mexico - Mexico Set by Len Deighton

FOMO/YOLO, MOFO! - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Ministry of Time: the strangest fan fiction - The Ministry of Time by Kaliene Bradley

J’Accuse - To Start A War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq by Robert Draper

Returning to Old Friends and Meeting New Ones - The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Twists and Turns - The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

I’m a cornucopia of complexity, Sam. - Lucky Strike by Janine Amesta

One bad@$$ woman - Marjory's River of Grass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Fierce Protector of the Everglades by Josie James

My head is saying, “Fool, forget him.” My heart is saying, “Don’t let go.” - Sleep: London Love Book 4 by Sophia Soames

We Didn’t Start the Fire; She Did, Actually. - Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold

He wanted to roll over and invite her to pet his belly, but he was in human form and it was a little too soon to be asking for that. - Fangs So Bright & Deadly by Piper J. Drake

Listening More Than Talking - Pew by Catherine Lacey

On the hunt for treasure - His Tesoro by Emilia Rossi

Saucy! - The Duke Who Didn’t: Wedgeford Trials Book 1 by Courtney Milan

When The Predicted Twist Comes in the Middle, You Know Something Interesting Is to Come… - The Couple at No. 9 by Claire Douglas

Perils of Journalism - I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Balls, and it’s a war story - Henry V by William Shakespeare

What If Nine Lives Took Place Across a Dozen Decades - The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

Sensible, Humane Advice - Mini Habits for Weight Loss by Stephen Guise

Stingers - Scorpions' Dance: The President, The Spymaster, and Watergate by Jefferson Morley

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.” - Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victora Schwab

When you’ve got a fox in mind - A Fox in My Brain by Lou Lubie

Towards the hospital waiting room - A Story about Cancer with a Happy Ending by India Desjardins

The Art of the Con - The Lies of Lock Lamora by Scott Lynch

Strut your big fluffy butt - Therapy Chickens: Let the Wisdom of the Flock Bring You Joy by Tedra Hamel

Fairy tale villains and loving sisters - Into the Goblin Market by Vikki VanSickle

Animal Book Round Up Time - The Knight Owl #2 Knight Owl and Early Bird by Christopher  Denise; The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood

All In, This Family - The Devil At His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

Woman in Sport - The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya

It’s like I’m in free fall. I’m relieved, I’m happy, I’m distressed, all at once. It averages out to “okay,” though. - Three Reasons to Run by Jackie Lau

Family celebration - A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri

Let there be light and community  - The Light Keeper by Sheila Baslaw

Middle Grade Graphic Novel Grab Bag - Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo; How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger; Tiffany's Griffon by Magnolia Porter-Siddell and Maddi Gonzalez; Plane Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol; Sink or Swim by Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie; Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

How could one ever capture a star? - The Muse of Maiden Lane by Mimi Matthews

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