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Genova Has a Unique Skill: She Takes Topics That Could Easily Feel Saccharine and Maudlin and Makes Them Feel Real and Human - Every Note Played by Lisa Genova

A Little Too Classic but Still Fun - Super Powereds Year Four by Drew Hayes

And slays me in the process - Deadpool Kills Deadpool by Cullen Bunn; Salva Espin

We all have biases, or “Why grandma might suddenly sound like a racist” - The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam

1970’s Feminism - Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

Hope is the thing with feathers - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Well, this was a book. - Lisey's Story by Stephen King

If You Don’t Want Your Estranged Wife to Show Up, You Probably Shouldn’t Spend Her Money - The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

Ordinary but Extraordinary - Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl by Deborah Hopkinson

Who is more human and who is the monster? - This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

Louder Than Life? No Kidding! - Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed

Y’all, Reese Witherspoon has a book club! - You Think It I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

“I said I could and I would. And I did.” - Ten Days in a Mad House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly

Caution: Fashion may be flammable - Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History by Jennifer Wright

“There’s a little witch in all of us.” - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

A Precious Little Spiritual Comic - Your Illustrated Guide To Becoming One With The Universe by Yumi Sakugawa

A Village Haunted by the Past - When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

I Don’t Think That Was the Takeaway from the Revolution You Needed to Focus on, Princess - Why Kings Confess by C.S. Harris

Great. I was permanently stuck as a Fae Princess from Emotionland. - The Epic Crush Of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee

Livia continues to be scary - The Night Trade (A Livia Lone Novel Book 2) by Barry Eisler

More Dead Girls - The Names of Dead Girls by Eric Rickstad

One of the grimmest books I’ve read - Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

Long Process, Fast DNA - I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

Possum Adventure - Possum and the Summer Storm by Anne Hunter

Walnut Animal Society is Curious - Magnolia's Magnificent Map (Walnut Animal Society) by Lauren Bradshaw

Subtle, perceptive speculative fiction short stories - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

A magical Oceans Eleven - The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

Then they don’t have to depend on the wind anymore. - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? - The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

Misunderstood Shark…. Or is he?? - Misunderstood Shark by Ame Dyckman

I Want to Live in the World Where This is the Real History - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

You Reap What You Sow - What Darkness Brings by C.S Harris

Skeletons Never Remain Buried - What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

A Storytelling of Ravens - A Storytelling of Ravens by Kyle Lukoff

Dolphin Summer - Dolphin Summer by Catherine Hapka

Wedgie & Gizmo at it again - Wedgie & Gizmo vs. the Toof by Suzanne Selfors

Burden in My Hand - Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

The author has a formula, but it’s a good one - Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Who doesn’t love a good (nearly) mad scientist? - My Mother Had Me Tested!: Tales of (Nearly) Mad Science by Marc Whipple

A Witch with a Badge - Black Magick Volume I: Awakening by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott

Games Begin and Games Continue, and All is Well. - Split the Party by Drew Hayes

Great story for the middle school introverts - Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson

A compelling, if largely implausible theory of the Zodiac Killer - The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...And Finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary Stewart with Susan Mustafa

YA Lit, Grief and Trauma: Part II - I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura

It’s certainly not easy - How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

A real-life Miss Hannigan - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Scheming, Snark and a Society on the Precipice - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

“Her. I’ll take her.” - Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare

As for the students, anyone might think we left them bewildered. - On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Tackling Grief and Mental Health Issues in YA Lit - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

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