Quick Pick book review: Leah on the Offbeat, by Becky Albertalli

Opening lines: I don't mean to be dramatic, but God save me from Morgan picking our set list. That girl is a suburban dad's midlife crisis in a high school senior's body. Reason I picked up the book: This is technically the sequel, or companion novel, to Simon vs. the Homo...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Punishment, by Scott J. Holliday {ends 7/19}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Barnes felt more at ease as Andrea Wilson than as her husband. The pickax’s physical damage had broken Dale’s memories and made them hard for Barnes’s mind to accept, like pouring unmixed gas into a two-cycle engine. Andrea’s damage had been equally...

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Quick Pick book review and GIVEAWAY: Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, by Jo Piazza

Opening lines:Tell people one true thing before you tell them a lie. Then it will be easier for them to believe the lie. It wasn't the best advice Marty Walsh ever gave to his daughter Charlotte, but it had stuck with her for almost forty years. Reason I picked up the book: It...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: A Tangled Mercy, by Joy Jordan-Lake

Guest review by: Erin Krajenke Gripping her coffee and feeling her way through the mist that clung to the water and to the mansions beside it, Kate climbed the steps of the seawall. A thousand miles of asphalt had made her stiff and bleary-eyed, but this view, her first of...

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