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Newsletter #185

May 7, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of I Hate Everyone

I Hate Everyone

by Naomi Danis and Cinta Arribas

MADE-UP

"It's my birthday. So boo! I hate all of you." "Go away! No! Stay!" This is not your average birthday picture book, but I'll bet it reflects the true roiling, ambivalent emotions of many omf the toddl... (Tom)

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Our Kind of Cruelty

by Araminta Hall

MADE-UP

In our post-Gone Girl times, when it seems we are in an arms race of narrative unreliability, Araminta Hall gives things a twist of her own, putting her tale in the hands of Mike Hayes, a self-made Lo... (Tom)

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Sunburn

by Laura Lippman

MADE-UP

An insurance scam (or two or three), lovers working at an out-of-the-way diner: the elements of James M. Cain's greatest crime novels are in plain sight, and Lippman clearly had some fun putting them... (Tom)

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