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Newsletter #43

June 1, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Scranimals

by Jack Prelutsky and Peter Sís

The other day a customer was nearly jumping up and down in happiness that we had a copy of Scranimals in stock, and I was nearly as excited that there was someone else who loved the book as much as we... (Tom)

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Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson

MADE-UP

It was not my plan to get sucked into an 861-page book the past couple of weeks, but when I read the first line of Seveneves—"The moon blew up with no warning and for no apparent reason"—my head was t... (Tom)

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The City & The City

by China Miéville

MADE-UP

Miéville's best known as a baroque and endlessly inventive fantasist, but in this novel he harnesses his imagination to the rules and the spare language of a police procedural, which he turns inside-o... (Tom)

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