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Newsletter #52

August 10, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

by Glenn Taylor

MADE-UP

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom opens in the town of Keystone, West Virginia, in 1910, with Abe Baach, the town's most skilled card player, and Goldie Toothman, the graceful madam of the local brothel, hea... (Laura)

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Goodbye Stranger

by Rebecca Stead

MADE-UP

The first rule of Bridge, Tab, and Em's club: no fighting. But as they enter seventh grade, Em has developed curvy new curves, Tab has a newfound interest in social justice, and Bridge has a pair of f... (Tom)

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Lost in the City

by Edward P. Jones

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #8

Edward P. Jones sets the stories in this collection (and in his second, All Aunt Hagar's Children) in the streets and buildings of Washington, D.C., with an almost obsessive geographical exactitude, b... (Tom)

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