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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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3 Star Reviews

She’s bad, bad Big Barda! Baddest gal in the whole of Apokolips - Barda by Ngozi Ukazu

That disappointment when combining 2 great things makes them less good - Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee

A cozy fantasy about grief. - House of Frank by Kay Synclaire

In a drowned girl’s world - Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

Self discovery and gender with a little musical accompaniment - A Song for You and I by K. O'Neill

Family Traditions - The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

We come from the land of the ice and the snow - The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

Oh What Tangled Webs We Weave - It Started With a Secret by Tif Marcelo

Questions without answers - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Two girls, couple mysteries and basketball. - Shirley and Jamila Save Their Summer by Gillian Goerz; Shirley and Jamila's Big Fall by Gillian Goerz

When the clock doesn’t tick - Hourglass by Barbara Mazzi

The World Gone Mad - Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper

Which witch is which? - The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher

G is for Garbled - Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Milhone #25) by Sue Grafton

Heartbreaker Dressed Up in Bright, Fun Colors - The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

Magic!!! (jazz hands) - Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel by Juan E. Zambrano

The Myth, the Magic, The Woman - Medea by Blandine Le Callet

Reading it for a friend - The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts

The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas - The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

That feeling - Saudade: Our Longing for Brazil, by Ana Crespo and André Ceolin

Three books of fun - Not a Monster by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez; Not a Bean by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez; Not a Dog by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

My Life is Weird and so are these books (in a good way) - My Life is Weird My Mom Is a Mermaid! by Bill Canterbury; My Life is Weird My Dad Is a Unicorn! by Bill Canterbury; My Life is Weird My Teacher Is a Dinosaur! by Bill Canterbury

Ghosts and Halloween are nothing to fear, but what about another holiday cheer? - The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler; The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise by Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler

A champion, mimic and sorceress beat some bad guys and might have saved the world - Sword of the Champion by Eric Lide

Ibtihaj Muhammad’s stories - The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community (The Proudest Blue, 3) by Ibtihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali and Hatem Aly

Turkey trot - The Great Turkey Walk: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of the Classic Story of a Boy, His Dog and a Thousand Turkeys by Kathleen Karr and Michelle Bailat-Jones

Great Nature Story; Odd Personal Story - Island of Dreams by Dan Boothby

What’s the opposite of warp speed? - Warp by Lev Grossman

During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, something grew - The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer

Dance with a side of criminal profiling - The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

A Bunch of Neanderthals - Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

A middling middle book - Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

One of the Better Bosh Books - Bosh! by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn - The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu

What is Yours? - Penance by Eliza Clark

She took a real trip - Scout Is Not a Band Kid by Jade Armstrong

Two siblings and their adventure - Afar by Leila del Duca, Kit Seaton and Taneka Stotts

A Few Twists, Some Predictable - The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Pleasant but forgettable - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Sometimes Books You Loved as a Teen Don’t Age Well - The Dead Boy Detectives by Jill Thompson

Teamwork is Dreamwork - Tryouts: (A Graphic Novel) (The Brinkley Yearbooks) by Sarah Sax

I had more images I wanted to add, but ran out of space - A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me by Yevgenia Nayberg.

Jumping on the bandwagon - Bride by Ali Hazelwood

“Demi-human, seek knowledge and grow wise.” - The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms by Nagabe

“if not for these pictures, these sturdy images pulled out of the blur of her memory, her life would have no solidity” - Hum by Helen Phillips

last two! an opioid double header - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

A Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy with dragons - So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Was there a page max or something? - The Removed by Brandon Hobson

Ignore the Marketing on This One—This Is a Different Kind of Dragon-Novel - The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

“There’s something about realizing that the birds have been here all along, and all I have to do is learn to pay attention.” - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

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