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4 Star Reviews

Yuta and Kyota found a loophole - Why I Adopted My Husband: The true story of a gay couple seeking legal recognition in Japan by Yuta Yagi

A Witch’s Guide to Standing Up to Your Toxic Family: CBR 15 Bingo – Adulthood - A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

“The further you get from home, the weirder things get.” - The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey

Lots of Good Stuff in these books - Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras by Nelson Rodriguez; Fiona the Fruit Bat by Dan Riskin; What's Inside a Bird's Nest?: And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles by Rachel Ignotofsky

Standing up for the community - Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism (Do You Know My Name?)  by Mary Fairhurst Breen 

I am The Best! At what, not sure yet….. - Getting Dizzy by Shea Fontana

The Flame of the Heart - Flamer by Mike Curato

“Bones is what they are now.” - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fingers Crossed This Time I Get the Look Right - The Vegan Cake Bible by Sara Kidd

Take Me To Church - The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen, Thomas Risen

The Circle Is Complete - The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder by Lawrence Block

Nothing Says Different Times Like Tobacco Power Plays - The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde by Erle Stanley Gardner

Girl, Forgotten - Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

Even though very little had gone to plan that evening, one thing had been clear – Cade was a really good guy. - Kitten Caboodle by Candace Harper

Drag Queens and Dinosaurs have bellies - B Is for Bellies by Rennie Dyball; Parker’s Place by Russ Willms; Big Wig by Jonathan Hillman

Two halves one whole - Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

Just because I’m physically an adult doesn’t mean I don’t like kids books. - Copy That, Copy Cat!: Inventions Inspired by Animals by Katrina Tangen

Bình learns the game of life - Enlighten Me by Minh Lê

I challenge you to a duel - Duel by Jessixa Bagley

Authentically Charlie - Curlfriends V01: New in Town by Sharee Miller

Celebration of Ramadan - Aliya’s Secret: A Story of Ramadan by Fairda Zaman

The wonder of women - Wonderful Women of the World by Laurie Halse Anderson

Celebrating environmentally - Ganesha Goes Green  by Lakshmi Thamizhmani

Himsanity - The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses

I was wholly unprepared for such tenderness and humor - For Real by Alexis Hall

The Last Enola Holmes book - The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye / The Case of the Disappearing Duchess (Enola Holmes #6) by Nancy Springer

Intricate and unimaginable - An Immense World by Ed Yong

A porn star and a virgin walk into a bakery - Make You Mine (Running in Circles #1) by E.M. Lindsey

Science fiction + philosophy = a curiously French novel - The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

The Question of Soulmates - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

It was disconcerting to feel that the world, in fact, might have some dimension he’d overlooked. That she might have something to teach him. - How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long

“The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires” - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

What it is like to be a female firefighter - Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul

The speech I wish I was given - Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You’ll Never Hear by Carl Hiaasen

“You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small – ‘once upon a time…’ Why do you think they always began like that?” “Because they weren’t true,” Simon said promptly. Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, “Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when.” - Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1) by Susan Cooper

“Towards the end of my first time in Indonesia I stayed in a house on the edge of the jungle and dreamed the worst nightmares I have known since I was a child.” - In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos by Richard Lloyd Parry

“With the three of us working together…we’ll find Bessie for sure!” - The Bawk-Ness Monster by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter

Not my usual thing, but very enjoyable. - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

“And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it’s gone.” - Wintersmith (Tiffany Aching, #3) by Terry Pratchett

Really I don’t write one for every book, just the majority of them - How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps by Bambi Edlund

One little girl and a big wish - Rivka's Presents by Laurie Wallmark

I don’t always listen to heavy metal, but when I do… …so do the neighbors - Heavy Metal Badger by Duncan Beedie

It’s hairy, it’s scary, it has toe beans! - The Scariest Kitten in the World by Kate Messner

Her whole family was murdered and she’s not OK - Out of the Ashes by Kara Thomas

What would you do if you were maybe really nearby to a murder? - Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

Inspirational - Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence

“The talks had completed a circle to nowhere.” - Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steven Kemper

Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, happened because there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden

More than the black-veiled image at her husbands funeral - Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Corretta Scott King by Alice Faye Duncan

Our house is a very fine… okay it is a piece of crap but it’s where we lay our heads, along side the rats - UTown by Cab

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