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5 Star Reviews

Hands Down, a Top 5 For Me This Year - Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

Yeah the devil’s gonna get you man, as soon as you’s born - A Silent Hell by Juan Diaz Canales (Author), Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator)

“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.” - Persuasion by Jane Austen

Nobody can live without a past - Blacksad by Juan Diaz Canales (Author), Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator)

A Perfect (yet haunting) Book for your Summer Reading List - This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

Complexity should be your excuse for inaction - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Getting lost, going wild, finding yourself. - Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The magic within yourself - Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A beautiful, sad book about Hurricane Katrina–and it’s for children, no less. - Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A cautionary tale of middle-class entropy - Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

The Title is Ironic and True at the Same Time - The Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

That’s What Friends are For - So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

A heart, Captain Twain, is a big place - Sailor Twain or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel

One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

The camping trip of nightmares - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

Cool beans - Stray Bullets Volume 1: Innocence of Nihilism by David Lapham

Yes, and…a great new technique I want to try. - Yes, And... by Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton

Rachel Held Evans’ brave, beautiful new book - Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

In the Face of the Abyss, Hold On To Kindness - A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Tho’ much is taken, much abides - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

YA Lit + Pi = Good Read - Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

Funny History - Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beacon

Love Will Tear Us Apart Again - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

I’ve seen Fire and I’ve seen Reign - Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker

Scully Can Write! - A Vision of Fire: Book One of the Earthend Saga by Gillian Anderson and some guy

Comprehensive, informative, entertaining - The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe

Walk the Tarnished World - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A gentle reminder that all we have is already lost - Love Begins in Winter five stories by Simon Van Booy

Dancing with Werewolves, or at least a Werewolf - Soulless by Gail Carringer

The water wins in the end - This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas

Put on Your Dancing Shoes - The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Judy Is My Queen - In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Oh My Ghosh - The Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh

Genre Bending Murder Mystery - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

Fear is the Original Sin - The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Heroism comes in all forms in this exquisite WWII story - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Larger Risk - Granta: American Wild (Issue 128/Summer 2014) by Sigrid Rausen (Publisher & Editor)

Alot of things are like running way from lava in swim fins - Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

Make mine a double (cannonball) with this beautiful and wrenching book. - Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai

Shadow brother - Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas

Another winner by Liane Moriarty - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

Behind the scenes of one of my all-time favs - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

Food & History…What’s Not to Love - The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites by Libby H. O'Connell

The Pym that started it all for me last year. - Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

One Crowded Hour of Glorious Life Is Worth an Age Without a Name (and a Cannonball) - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

A Feminist Fairy Tale - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Me and Earl Turned Me Into the Crying Girl - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Burst! - Dietland by Sarai Walker

Jane Austen meets Fight Club meets Dickens - The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman

Love Until Later - Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon

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