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A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of...

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, YA

Summary: Katherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heart When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls...

A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 22, 2020 | Book Review, Literary Fiction

Summary: A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town For a curious boy...

Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Sherlock Holmes is fending off a particularly dark mood as he roams the Sussex Downs, in search of wild bees. The Great War may be raging across the Channel, but on the Downs, the great detective nears terminal melancholia—only to be saved by an encounter...

Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 17, 2020 | Book Review, Fantasy

Summary: August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks a book–the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends,...