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Newsletter #245

September 9, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

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Ducks, Newburyport

by Lucy Ellmann

MADE-UP

No getting around it, this sounds like a tough sell: 1000 pages of unbroken thought, not a stream of consciousness but a torrential river scouring a mental landscape. But that's how you produce someth... (James)

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Pie in the Sky

by Remy Lai

MADE-UP

Pie in the Sky is a wonderful hybrid of a regular middle-grade novel and a graphic novel, with illustrations vividly fleshing out all the silly, heartbreaking, and imaginative moments in this story. E... (Haley)

Cover of The Corner That Held Them

The Corner That Held Them

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

MADE-UP

Who knew that NunLit was a genre with a passionately devoted following? Not me, until I read this unique story about a medieval convent, considered one of its classics. Townsend writes brilliantly abo... (Liz)

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