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    Book Jacket: Eat the Ones You Love

    Eat the Ones You Love
    by Sarah Maria Griffin

    BookBrowse Review:
    The beginning of Sarah Maria Griffin's Eat the Ones You Love is suffused with a draining pessimism: Shell, the main character, has lost her dream job in graphic ...

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    Isabella Zhou
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    1. Model Home
      by Rivers Solomon
    2. The Book Eaters
      by Sunyi Dean
    3. Wilder Girls
      by Rory Power
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    Book Jacket: Terrestrial History

    Terrestrial History
    by Joe Mungo Reed

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    In the year 2025, a renowned fusion scientist named Hannah is working alone at her seaside cottage in Scotland and hoping for a new breakthrough in her search for the answer ...

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    Frankie Martinez
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    Book Jacket: Snowglobe

    Snowglobe
    by Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort

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    The world has become a frozen wasteland and sixteen-year-old Jeon Chobahm's only relief from the bitter cold comes in the form of her favorite reality show, Goh Around, ...

    Book Reviewed by:
    Michelle Anya Anjirbag
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    1. The Last Murder at the End of the World
      by Stuart Turton
    2. Hummingbird Salamander
      by Jeff VanderMeer
    3. Wilder Girls
      by Rory Power
  • Book Recommendations for Young Adult & Adult-YA Crossover

    Book Jacket: When the Moon Hits Your Eye

    When the Moon Hits Your Eye
    by John Scalzi

    BookBrowse Review:
    One day, without warning, the Moon turns into a giant ball of cheese. Every piece of Moon rock on Earth turns with it. Nobody knows why, and there is the general understanding...

    Book Reviewed by:
    Joe Hoeffner
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    1. Mood Swings
      by Frankie Barnet
    2. The Anomaly
      by Hervé Le Tellier
    3. The Constant Rabbit
      by Jasper Fforde

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Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, "Boyfriends," was ...

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