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Summary Of Lessons In Chemistry By Bonnie Garmus
by C.B. Publishers
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5 ?? Zott is the bomb. She’s a badass, doesn’t care about other people’s opinions-she’s strong willed, fights for what she wants and does as she pleases. This was a fun read with such a great ending. Mad is fab. Same sass as her mama. Six-Thirty, need to get me a pup like him!

The Girl Who Was Taken
by Charlie Donlea
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Excellent suspense novel where one of the victims had become involved in a sick kidnapping game, not realizing it was feeding a real kidnapper. This book kept me hanging on until the last chapter.

Swept Away
by Beth O'Leary
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I love this author! i always think her books should be rated higher than they are. This was a really interesting concept, but I wish the ending wasn't so rushed after they are saved.

The Wife Upstairs
by Rachel Hawkins
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I don't normally read lighthearted, true crime type thrillers, but this book was exactly the fodder I needed to get me engrossed in a story during a time of loss. Many of the criticisms I read in other reviews talked about how the story was predictable, but this is what I liked about it. I don't do well with suspense, so reading a Jane Eyre reimagination (one of my favorite books) was good, predictable comfort reading.

The Paper Palace (reese's Book Club)
by Miranda Cowley Heller
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DNF - I couldn’t get past the vulgarity or child abuse. This is not my cup of tea. I’m sure that the storyline is decent, but I do not wish to proceed.

The Adventures Of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
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This remains the original manuscript, penned in 1883 by Carlo Lorezzizi ( aka C.Collodi), which inspired the 1940 animated Disney masterpiece. Delightfully written with rich details of Italian provincial life, this book significantly differs from its whimsical cinematic counterpart in both tone and characterizations; however, youngsters of all ages will surely enjoy this simple tale of a mischievous wooden marionette whose growing appreciation of his father Gepetto's love, transforms him into his real-life son. *For those parents who cherish bed-time storytelling for their children, a word of caution is advised; some chapters are graphic in both violence and dark imagery, and literary discretion is necessary for the very young sleepy set toddlers.*

Guts: A Graphic Novel
by Raina Telgemeier
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I wish I'd read this in my puberty years!! Raina!!! Where were you then? With two brothers and a mom who worked and attended community college, my deep shyness and fear of asking questions as well as sharing my personal concerns isolated me in my family and with my "peers" at school or elsewhere. Ughhhh. Yuk! So glad young pre-pubescent tweens, et al have validating and confidence-giving reading like this one! Ughhhhh....even hiding "used stuff" in the kitchen garbage "indiscreetly" was nerve wracking! (so my brothers wouldn't get "the secret" I was hiding!) And the products we had in the 1970's! So weird! (And my mom was overjoyed for me - "now you can have a baby!" Really? I don't want one now! What would I do with one as a tweenager?)

The Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
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Total beach read dream filled with all the summer vibes. Belly's annual beach trip gets a major shake-up as she navigates first love, family drama, and growing up, serving up the perfect cocktail of romance and nostalgia.

Percy Jackson And The Sea Of Monsters (book 2)
by Rick Riordan
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A lovely addition to a lovely series, You’ll meet new characters to love, and cherish the old ones. You’ll hate the new villains and the old, and love their drama and jokes too. Sarcastic, funny, adventurous, and serious, all the things you could ever want in an adventurous story of gods,monsters, and determined mortals.

Murder Machine
by Heather Graham
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Very instructional but not a very exciting story.
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