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Newsletter #81

March 14, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

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Black Wings Has My Angel

by Elliott Chaze

MADE-UP

They sure boiled their books hard back in the '50s. This one, published in 1953, has been almost as difficult to find since as an armored car at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft (to borrow a memo... (Tom)

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Margaret the First

by Danielle Dutton

MADE-UP

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was eccentric even by celebrity-author standards, so it's fitting that her imagined life story defies the conventions of typical historical fiction. Instead o... (Liz)

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Shhh! This Book Is Sleeping

by Cedric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau

MADE-UP

There was an odd book about a sleepy bunny that was all the rage for hypnotizing toddlers last year. I don't know if this one's clinical effectiveness has been tested against The Rabbit Who Wants to F... (Tom)

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