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Newsletter #320

March 28, 2022

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4 books featured in this issue

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Lawless Spaces

by Corey Ann Haydu

MADE-UP

Corey Ann Haydu is one of my favorite YA authors, and I eagerly snagged an advance copy of this novel-in-verse as soon as I laid eyes on it. In Lawless Spaces, Mimi, fifteen-turning-sixteen, grapples... (Anika)

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South Riding

by Winifred Holtby

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #84

Here’s the pitch: a soap opera about local government with hints of Middlemarch and Peyton Place. Well. You’d forgive a publisher for taking a pass, but this 1937 novel was an instant bestseller, adap... (Liz)

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Cover of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Hard Sell

by Evan Hughes

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe

My reading (and listening) usually jumps from subject to subject and style to style, but when I recently finished The Hard Sell, Hughes's thorough evisceration of the executives behind Insys ... (Tom)

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You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe

by Rebecca Brown

TRUE

You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe In the season of her life when she is gathering her work, Brown has brought together occasional essays she wrote for the Stranger in the previous decade into a... (Tom)

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