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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mannabis - Give Us A Kiss by Daniel Woodrell

Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Ones You Do by Daniel Woodrell

My Kind of Mashup - Lock In by John Scalzi

Teenage vampire drama - Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Two more novellas, which were a more successful venture than the last two - The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright; Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare

Starships Were Meant to Fly, Hands Up to Touch the Sky - Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

Survival is insufficient - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Past Never Really Stays in the Past - World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

An intimate glimpse at the life of Barbara Pym - A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym, Hilary Pym, and Hazel Holt

An original and innovative Jane Eyre adaptation - Re Jane by Patricia Park

The dangers of cauliflower gratin and other lessons from Barbara Pym - Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

Humanity: less than angels. - Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym

Lovely Jenny Lee. - Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer Worth

Love and academia: two subjects ripe for examination - No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

Scottish black comedy madness. - One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre

We all have our private doomsday - Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason

The Pagoda! Featured in a Book! Am I Dreaming? - Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Another winner from Liane Moriarty - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The American Dreamer - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson

Beware the Evil that Lives in the Wood… - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

See, this is why we can’t have nice things - High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

Today I Learned About Coonasses and Tushhogs - Muscle for the Wing by Daniel Woodrell

Crawdaddy Issues - Under the Bright Lights by Daniel Woodrell

Uncle Stevie’s Very Own Dick! - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

“Ka was like a wheel, it’s one purpose to turn and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.” - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Meet the Waverleys - Garden Spells (Waverley Family #1) by Sarah Addison Allen

I don’t think I could have lasted a week - A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master" by Rachel Held Evans

Frogs, Ducks, Turtles, Rabbits, and How Things Got the Way They Are - Spark, a Creative Anthology, Volume VI by Brian Lewis, Editor

Nuke B-Gone - Atomic Robo Volume 1: Atomic Robo and the Fighting Scientists of Tesladyne by Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener, Ronda Pattison

Chekhov’s Axe - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

I don’t want to go: California - California by Edan Lepucki

Trigger Warnings Abound - My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

You, too, can speak the name of the wind. JK. Only the specially chosen can do that. - The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss

They Don’t Actually Spend a Lot of Time on the Ship, Even Though It’s On the Cover - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

The Girl in the Painting - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

Sharks, Seals, San Francisco - Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy

Lotta Miles on the Road Still To Go - Christine by Stephen King

No helpless damsels in distress here - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

If everything were perfect and your house were set up exactly the way you want it, what would it look like? - 5 Days to a Clutter-Free House: Quick, Easy Ways to Clear Up Your Space by Sandra Felton, Marsha Sims

Manic Street Dream Girls - Paper Towns by John Green

Rome is Where We Saw the Yellow Dog - At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

A way to a man’s heart is through bird-watching. Who knew? - A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson

Gender: not as simple as pink and blue. - None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Horror Story on the Eve of Hitler’s Takeover - Children of Wrath by Paul Grossman

Cormac McCarthy is a thief of joy. - Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

See Also: You Did It to Yourself - Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler

‘Not All Miserable Unfulfilled Losers’ - Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It by Brittany Gibbons

Even more bad-ass than bad-ass - American Vampire Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Stephen King

You Got Herd - Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver

Killabytes - The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross

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