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Newsletter #65

November 9, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Illuminae

Illuminae

by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

MADE-UP

This is not your typical YA dystopian sci-fi romance novel. (I should know, I read enough of them.) This is the first book of any type to grab me and not let go in way too long a time. Told in hacked... (Steph)

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The Boys of My Youth

by Jo Ann Beard

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Beard came to writing late, and this collection of autobiographical essays was the only book she published until her late fifties, but clearly she was paying attention all along. She's drawn by a rest... (Tom)

Cover of The Improbability of Love

The Improbability of Love

by Hannah Rothschild

MADE-UP

Part sendup of the world of art collecting, part love story, and part art-theft mystery, The Improbability of Love is great fun. Opening with the daring theft of a painting from what was supposed to b... (Laura)

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