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Newsletter #172

February 5, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

by Joan London

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #38

I might have raved to you about The Golden Age, London's most recent novel and one of my favorite store recommendations. Gilgamesh, her first novel, is nearly as good, and clearly from the same brilli... (Tom)

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Heart Berries

by Terese Marie Mailhot

TRUE

Mailhot's memoir is short, but she doesn't let it go down easy. She knows how indigenous memoirs like hers, are taken. "I tried to tell someone my story, but he thought it was a hustle," she writes on... (Tom)

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Marcel the Shell

by Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #26

Should I be embarrassed to love a picture book that's a spinoff of a viral YouTube video? (Actually a sequel to a spinoff.) Because I'm not. Marcel's quirky, squeaky sweetness survives its translation... (Tom)

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