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5 Star Reviews

Forrest Gump for the Downton Abbey Set - Daughter of an Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks

Great action packed historical fiction with a dash of romance - The Road to Silver Plume by Tamara Allen

The Great Alaskan Memoir - Still Points North by Leigh Newman

“The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.” - Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up by William Poundstone

Who Turned on the Lights? - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

KITTIES! - The French Cat by Rachael Hale McKenna

Travel is so broadening. - Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

OMG BRIAN SELZNICK!!!! - The Marvels by Brian Selznick

Its essence is a mathematical construct, a self-referencing tautology, consecrated in the plane of regret. - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

All that shines - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Fearsome Women - The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

“Who on earth could feel comfortable enough to sleep in a room with no books?” - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

“Oh, for God’s sake, it’s Patsy!” - Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! Volume 1: Hooked on a Feline by Kate Leth and Brittney Williams

“To describe how you feel after a girl explodes in your pre-calc class is a tad tricky…” - Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer

“Truth is, you save me, child. You save me as sure as the sun rises.” - Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

The most successful formula ever. - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

So I looked up the word “grief” in the dictionary. - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami

To suffer is as human as to breathe. - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany

My enemies are too great. Too many. And I too weak. - Morning Star (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 3) by Pierce Brown

A surprising amount of snuggles - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Magic all around. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would be so nice - The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

“When she was eight she had fallen in love with Ichimei with all the intensity of childhood passions; with Nathaniel it was the calm love of later years” - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

Good, Evil and the Vast In Between - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

When mom is gone - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

A contender for Best Book of 2016 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

My favorite L’Engle book. - A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Meg Murry is all of us. - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A lovely, heavy, and poignant young adult novel - Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

9/11 Revisited. - The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi

No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they’re on. - Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

Is there light at the end of the tunnel? - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Math and Baseball, what more could you want? - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Reservations were supposed to be Prisons - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

“Death is never added to death, it multiplies.” - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

You guys, I found our next “Act Like It”! - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Rainbow Rowell is my spirit animal. - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Bow down - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Fantasy novella with an adorable protagonist. - The Awakened Kingdom (Inheritance, #3.5) by N.K. Jemisin

Yet another reason CBR was the best New Year’s resolution I ever made. - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Hazel’s all growed up. - Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Kamala survived Secret Wars and is now just as awesome as before. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson

Just as good as everyone said it would be. - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

I Wish All My Problems Were This Easy to Solve - What Do You Do With A Problem? by Kobi Yamada

This is How to Pass Boring Meetings - What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada

Can I have the next one now, please? - Saga, volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

“Having kids sent a tornado through your marriage, then made you happy at the devastation.” - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

In which Kamala meets Wolverine and gets a giant teleporting dog - Ms. Marvel, vol 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt and Adrian Alphona

A Mile in Their Shoes - Harmony: A Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst

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