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Newsletter #106

September 12, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

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A Girl and Her Gator

by Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #9

Really, there's almost no way to choose among A Girl and Her Gator and the linked picture books by Bryan and Murphy that precede and follow it, each with its own similarly inexplicable but ultimately... (Tom)

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Eating Dirt

by Charlotte Gill

TRUE Phinney by Post #21

It's usually the case in books that the story takes place when people are not working: that's when life, apparently, begins. Gill's memoir flips that on its head: there is almost nothing in the book o... (Tom)

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The Story of a Brief Marriage

by Anuk Arudpragasam

MADE-UP

I was reading this book at the same time images of the little boy injured in the bombing of Aleppo were all over the media. In the same way those few seconds of video crystallized the trauma war infli... (Liz)

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