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Newsletter #82

March 21, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

by Kent Russell

[I recommended this fine and slightly unhinged essay collection this time last year with the review below. We hardly sold any copies, and I don't think many other people did either, but now that I Am... (Tom)

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Pax

by Sara Pennypacker

MADE-UP

Readers accustomed to the charm of Sara Pennypacker's Clementine series might be surprised by the depth and darkness of her new book for older readers. Twelve-year-old Peter and Pax, the pet fox he wa... (Tom)

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Vessels: A Love Story

by Daniel Raeburn

TRUE

There seems to be a lot of death in the books a lot of us are reading these days. There is as much life as death in this memoir—it's a story of births, and of the birth and rebirth of love—but it's ha... (Tom)

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