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Newsletter #97

July 4, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

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American Girls

by Alison Umminger

MADE-UP

Fed up with the new lives of her divorced parents, 15-year-old Anna steals her stepmom's credit card and hightails it to Los Angeles to stay with her half-sister, Delia, a struggling actress. She soon... (Karlyn)

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The Eustace Diamonds

by Anthony Trollope

"Show, don't tell," that's what all the writing guides say, and there's plenty of truth to that truism. But sometimes you want a story to be told—there's a reason they're called "storytellers"—and whe... (Tom)

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We Are Not Such Things

by Justine Van Der Leun

TRUE

When she moved from the U.S. to South Africa, Van Der Leun became obsessed with the story of Amy Biehl, a young white American women whose death at the hands of a black mob in the last days of aparthe... (Tom)

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