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MARKETPLACE OF THE MARVELOUS by Erika Janik

January 31, 2014

ENTERTAINING, ENLIGHTENING LOOK at how modern US medicine grew from a 19th century chaos of competing ideas. B PLUS

MARKETPLACE OF THE MARVELOUS
Beacon Press
2014

Grade: B PLUS

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IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS by Jessica Hendry Nelson

January 30, 2014

CANDID AND TOUCHING MEMOIR of a family fractured by depression as much as by alcohol and drugs. Insightful. B PLUS

IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
Counterpoint LLC
2013

Grade: B PLUS

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FOREST GHOST by Graham Masterton

January 29, 2014

SPOOKY, ATMOSPHERIC HORROR story links an indefinable terror across continents, through decades. Gory stuff! SOLID B

FOREST GHOST: A NOVEL OF HORROR AND SUICIDE IN AMERICA AND POLAND
Severn House Publishers
2014

Grade: SOLID B

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THE PAGAN LORD by Bernard Cornwell

January 28, 2014

FIERCE BATTLES AND FIERCER intrigue fill Bernard Cornwell’s latest Saxon Tale with tension, excitement. B PLUS

THE PAGAN LORD
Harper
2014

Grade: B PLUS

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SNOOP by Lyla Fox

January 27, 2014

A SMALLTOWN NEWSPAPER OWNER solves a series of murders and finds love in this rural Michigan-set cozy. Fun! SOLID B

SNOOP
Cozy Cat Press
2013

Grade: SOLID B

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THE MISFORTUNATES by Dimitri Verhulst

January 26, 2014

THE SEEDY, FARCICAL LIVES of a family of hard-drinking Belgian no-hopers, depicted with tender brutality. SOLID B

THE MISFORTUNATES: A NOVEL
St. Martin’s Press
2013

Grade: SOLID B

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THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA by Jesse Walker

January 25, 2014

THE POWER OF PARANOIA and conspiracy theory in US politics, from Colonial times to the present. Fascinating! B PLUS

THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA : A CONSPIRACY THEORY
Harper
2013

Grade: B PLUS

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BORDER ANGELS by Anthony Quinn

January 24, 2014

A NORTHERN IRELAND MYSTERY has an action-packed plot, background on human trafficking, immigration tensions. SOLID B

BORDER ANGELS
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
2013

Grade: SOLID B

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THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS ME by David Stuart Maclean

January 23, 2014

A MEMOIR OF AMNESIA: intriguing enough right there, but the beauty here is the story of growth afterwards. B PLUS

THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS ME: A MEMOIR OF AMNESIA
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
2014

Grade: B PLUS

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LOOKING FOR TROUBLE by Trice Hickman

January 22, 2014

STYLISH FAMILY SAGA with a touch of the supernatural follows several generations of a wealthy black family. SOLID B

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
Kensington Publishing Corporation
2013

Grade: SOLID B

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