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LANDLINE: A True Look At True Love
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Landline by Rainbow Rowell Reviewed by Consuelo I was hesitant as I started Landline. I haven’t read Attachments, and I was worried that Rainbow Rowell’s grown-up characters would not have the same grip on me that her young adult characters did when I read Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. My hesitation didn’t…
COME, SWEET DEATH! Funny, Full of Suspense
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? (This review was first posted on the MysteryPeople blog.) Come, Sweet Death! by Wolf Haas Reviewed by Andrew H. Wolf Haas has a voice to be reckoned with. His series of novels starring Detective Brenner is already wildly popular in his native Austria and in Germany, and it is only a…
THE KLAATU DISKOS SERIES: Imaginative and Seamless
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~review by Sara H. The Klaatu Diskos Series by Pete Hautman The Obsidian Blade (2012) The Cydonian Pyramid (2013) The Klaatu Terminus (2014) Tucker Fey’s parents have suddenly gone missing after a strange phenomenon is witnessed above their house – a perfectly circular shaped distortion of light. After weeks of his…
Bookseller Review: CATALOGING THE WORLD
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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age by Alex Wright Reviewed by Jan Alex Wright channels his inner James Gleick here and offers us a compelling biography, not only of an important forerunner to information science, but a brief biography of the birth of the Web and…
Top Shelf in July: CALIFORNIA by Edan Lepucki
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Y’all might recognize this month’s Top Shelf pick from The Colbert Report (and from recent posts right here on this very blog). California by Edan Lepucki is a debut post-apocalyptic novel coming out this month from Hachette Book Group, a publisher locked in a highly publicized struggle with an online retailer that has resulted in restricted…
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