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Newsletter #292

February 1, 2021

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4 books featured in this issue

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Grown Ups

by Emma Jane Unsworth

MADE-UP

From the outside, 35-year-old Jenny McLaine appears to be a successful adult. She owns her house, has a cool writing job in London, a few good friends, and up until recently she lived with her famous... (Anika)

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Laughing in the Hills

by Bill Barich

TRUE Phinney by Post #73

When Bill Barich decided, "with the same hapless illogic that governed all my actions then," to spend the spring of 1978 at a second-rate racetrack in Northern California, he might have been looking f... (Tom)

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Outlawed

by Anna North

MADE-UP

I got to read an early copy of Outlawed last year and have been impatiently waiting until it went on sale and I could share it. This book deftly recasts the Western genre through a queer, feminist len... (Haley)

Cover of The Blackhouse

The Blackhouse

by Peter May

MADE-UP

There has been a murder on the stark Hebridean Isle of Lewis, in the same small town where Edinburgh police detective Fin Macleod was raised, but Fin, sent to investigate, spends much more time peelin... (Tom)

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