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Dali Meets Indiana Jones - A Tale of Sand by Jim Henson & Jerry Juhl

A great book about people struggling through a recent war - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Nada, a.k.a What Happens when A Family Lives Too Long Together Under One Roof - Nada by Carmen Laforet

How to Read the End of This Book - A Tale for the TIme Being by Ruth Ozeki

Where Men Are Men and Sheep Are Nervous - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

If Serial Was Set in Victorian England - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

“I know who killed him” - The Secret Place by Tana French

Here I go again on my own. - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

This is what happens when a comedian writes a true crime book. - God'll Cut You Down by John Safran

Mesmerizing, like driving in a snowstorm but in a good way. Yeah. - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Flavia: My Girl Pie-day - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

A Loss You’ll Truly Feel - Dare I Call It Murder: A Memoir of Violent Loss by Larry Edwards

Reading with the Lights Off - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills Through Drawing Tasks - The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story by Rawley Silver

“the sparrow still falls” - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Ms. Marvel; the Delight of the Origin Story - Ms. Marvel vol.1 No Normal by Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Girl Walks into a Bar… - Girl Walks into a Bar... Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle by Rachel Dratch

Slick As Sh*t - Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

We’re Gonna Go Back In Time - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Woe to Middle America - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Read this. That is all. - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Read a Book, Ya Idjits! - Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters...for Idjits by Galen A. Foresman

Spare, Tense, Haunting - The Children Act by Ian McEwan

All That’s in a Name - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Like Jane Eyre meets Jane Austen meets V.C. Andrews - A Spell of WInter by Helen Dunmore

Afterworlds; If Schrödinger ever wrote a book - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Hot New Harlan Coben Paints Dating Services Extra Creepy - Missing You by Harlan Coben

Strike seeks out the truth about the Cuckoo - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith / JK Rowling

A Childhood Throwback - Amelia Bedelia 50th Anniversary Library by Peggy Parish

Long, Depressing but Really Well Done - Dirty Wars: The War is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill

Cloudy With a Chance of Awesome - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

A New Year, Same Old Crazy - Crazy Like a Fox by Shannon Hill

For the Love of Food! - Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren

All perfectly marriageable after all. - It Happened One Autumn, Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers #2, 4) by Lisa Kleypas

“Million-to-one chances…crop up nine times out of ten.” - Equal Rites (Discworld #3) by Terry Pratchett

Connections - The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy

If a Tree Falls in the Woods and No One Posts about It on Facebook… - Extras by Scott Westerfield

A Modern Adventure Tale for the Middle Aged Yuppie-Hippie - Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows by Zac Unger

The first Agatha Christie. - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) by Agatha Christie

Rocket Raccoon and his Human Hangers-on - Guardians of the Galaxy: Legacy by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Paul Pelletier

Satan a superhero and God a villain? Wait, what? - Horns by Joe Hill

can tidying up really be this much fun? - the life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo

Oh Thank God, An Honest Narrator - The Name of the Wind & A Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

And now my scalp itches… - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Book Exchange Book 1 – Loved it! - The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley

A loveable grab-bag of historical danger and drama - Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

A Very Dystopian Bachelor-meets-The Civil War - The Selection, The Elite, The One by Kiera Cass

Read It and Weep - If I Stay by Gayle Forman

A New Appreciation for Ezra Pound, Frankenbiting, and Gerbils - The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer

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