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Newsletter #58

September 21, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Everything, Everything

by Nicola Yoon

MADE-UP

Madeline has lived inside an unforgiving and forbidden world all her life. She hasn't left her house in seventeen years. If she did, she could die. But when a mysterious boy named Olly moves in next d... (Dori)

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The House of Twenty Thousand Books

by Sasha Abramsky

TRUE

The title alone has an aspirational allure (at least for book hoarders like me), but the book inside is even better: it's a beautiful, subtle, and knowledgeable portrait of a singular man, Chimen Abra... (Tom)

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U and I

by Nicholson Baker

TRUE

Thank goodness for strange, little books. This one, almost 25 years old already (!), may not be for everyone, but if you have the smallest bit of fascination with how one writer thinks about another,... (Tom)

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