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ALICE ISN’T DEAD by Joseph Fink

June 29, 2019

A CROSS-COUNTRY HORROR TALE, rich with spooky detail, and with a beautiful love story at its heart. B PLUS

ALICE ISN’T DEAD
Harper Perennial
2021

Grade: B PLUS

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DREAM SEQUENCE by Adam Foulds

June 27, 2019

CLEVER, DISTURBING FABLE of celebrity culture and romantic obsession. Thoughtful and precise prose redeems any hint of soap opera in the plot. B PLUS

DREAM SEQUENCE
Farrar
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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THE LAST SUPPER BEFORE RAGNAROK (GODS AND MONSTERS #5) by Cassandra Khaw

June 20, 2019

FIGHTING GODS AND MONSTERS and saving the world: a big task for an odd assortment of blessed and cursed entities. Wildly entertaining fantasy! B PLUS

THE LAST SUPPER BEFORE RAGNAROK (GODS AND MONSTERS #5)
Abaddon
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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THE DREAM MAKER by Igor Bedê

June 17, 2019

NEAR-FUTURE DREAM TECHNOLOGY offers powers that can be used to help—or to harm. Spooky SF thriller with heartbreaks along the way. B PLUS

THE DREAM MAKER: A SCI-FI THRILLER NOVEL
Igor Bedê
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS by Esmé Weijun Wang

June 15, 2019

A WRITER WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER shares her challenges and joys in navigating a world where schizophrenia and psychosis are brutally misunderstood. A MINUS

THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS
Graywolf Press
2019

Grade: A MINUS

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MAMA'S LAST HUG (HARDCOVER) by Frans de Waal

June 13, 2019

THE MARVEL OF PRIMATE EMOTIONS, as shown in observation and behavioral experiments, recounted by distinguished scientist and master storyteller Frans de Waal. Fascinating! A MINUS

MAMA'S LAST HUG (HARDCOVER)
W. W. Norton & Company
2019

Grade: A MINUS

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DUCKETT & DYER by G.M. Nair

June 10, 2019

HAPLESS INTERDIMENSIONAL DETECTIVES try to solve mysteries and mend rifts between multiverses without losing their sanity or friendship. Fun comic SF! B PLUS

DUCKETT & DYER: DICKS FOR HIRE
dSdF
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES (HARDCOVER) by Thomas Milan Konda

June 8, 2019

A HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES combines scholarly depth and breadth with an engaging, readable style, and points out some unsettling trends. B PLUS

CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES (HARDCOVER)
University of Chicago Press
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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ALL THE GOOD THINGS (PAPERBACK) by Clare Fisher

June 6, 2019

AN INCARCERATED WOMAN’S STRUGGLES, both unique and sadly familiar, are at the center of this delicate, heartbreaking English novel. B PLUS

ALL THE GOOD THINGS (PAPERBACK)
Europa Editions
2019

Grade: B PLUS

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JACK JETSTARK’S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW by Jennifer Lee Rossman

June 3, 2019

A SPACE CARNIVAL’S “FREAKS” go to battle in rebellion against an intergalactic megacorporation. Imaginative, thought-provoking, epic. B PLUS

JACK JETSTARK’S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW
World Weaver Press
2018

Grade: B PLUS

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