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Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed. - They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie; The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

There’s no theme with these! - The Indifferent Stars Aboe by Daniel James Brown; Followers by Megan Angelo; Timeline by Micahel Crichton

“A fiery, foul-mouthed preacher who offered up profane salvation.” - Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

I get by with a little help from books like this - With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

We are Family - Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan

Freedom, what does it mean? - On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

A Day at the Movies - Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

The Puzzl-iest of Puzzles - The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Steampunk, historical fiction, mystery? - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Better than the Cupid TV Show - Beaus and Arrows by Rashida T. Williams

November 7th — Plant the indoor bulbs. - Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

Angel In Disguise - The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich

Why not distract yourself from the workings of the world with the workings of your own insides? - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

The boy who lived. - The History of Magic by JK Rowling; Tales of the Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

“Agnes first, Hengist second, Leah third!” said Lavinina Middleton, as her sisters and brother contested the access to the cloakroom in the hall. - The Mighty and their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Younger generations give me hope. - Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

Revisiting the End of the World - Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down” - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

This One’s For the Girls - Two Girls Down by Louise Luna

A new kind of bot in the Murderbot world - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Keep an Eye on Those Dragons - The Secret Chapter by Genvieve Cogman

The Broken Girls is a creepy page-turner - The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

“I don’t want to talk about dukes. Bollocks on every last one of them.” - A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3) by Cat Sebastian

Another delightful Lau novella - A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau

“Because, my girl you are sacred, valuable, indispensable, and irreplaceable” - #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors)

Guns, Guns, Guns - The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins

A Georgie Badiel inspired picture book - The Water Princess. by Susan Verde

Who Else Has a Sibling Dynamic Where You Are Constantly Annoyed Over Petty Things But Would Help Them Hide a Body in an Instant? - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Why is the crow their emblem? Because crows remember. - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.” - Blindness by José Saramago

Deja Vu - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Stop Scrolling! - Followers by Megan Angelo

This review ended up way more angry than I thought it would. - King of Scars (Nikolai Duology, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

The Man: Mayor Pete BEFORE he was Mayor - Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg by Rob Sanders

*Almost* Twenty years later and still a Potter head! - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling

Reissues of dePaola - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Tomie dePaola; Marianna May and Nursey by Tomie dePaola

I’m a Bad Guy - Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

Thomas Wazhashk removed his thermos from his armpit and set it on the steel desk alongside his scuffed briefcase. - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

This is the chronicle of a six-month trip that my wife and I made to Bafut, a mountain grassland kingdom in the British Cameroons in West Africa. - A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell

May 7th — I love my garden. - Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

Bawlmer - Four Kinds of Rain by Robert Ward

Love is powerful and wonderful and ridiculous - The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Fun with Fred and Friends - Undeading Bells by Drew Hayes

Throughout Generations - A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block

“A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.” - Starsight (Skyward, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

Adult Actress - Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley

Early in 1949, in Trinidad, near the end of my schooldays, word came to us in the sixth form of Queen’s Royal College that there was a serious young poet in one of the smaller islands to the north who had just published a marvelous first book of poems. - A Writer's Journey by VS Naipaul

“There isn’t ever going to be an end,” she said. “The point is that people have to continue always speaking up. And not being afraid.” - She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Well at least this isn’t apocalyptic - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

A Voice of My Generation - The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka

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    I just read this and the sequel, really enjoyed both!
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