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Newsletter #165

December 4, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

by Oliver Jeffers

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #24

Oliver Jeffers has written and drawn many picture books and illustrated others, including the colossally popular The Day the Crayons Quit, but his new one feels special: a welcome message written to i... (Tom)

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Magpie Murders

by Unknown

MADE-UP

Audiobook of the Week Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner I'm late in coming to Magpie Murders, but it entirely lived up to the reports I'd heard all year of i... (Tom)

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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

by Georges Simenon

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #36

Georges Simenon wrote over 400 novels, and The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By was the eleventh (!) he published in 1938 alone, but don't dismiss it as a throwaway. It has a simple premise—Kees Popin... (Tom)

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