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Dead and the Gone, the
A companion to Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone tells us what it was like in Manhattan after the moon got knocked out of place and messed up life on Earth.
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Feb 1 2013
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Always Hiding
"Do you still love him?" I asked.
"With all the bile in my body."
That exchange between a Filipino daughter and mother was basically the high point of the novel for me.
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Jan 29 2013
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0-688-15632-0
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The Library of Congress welcomes butches and femmes at last, but only if they're lesbians.
The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 12, December 17, 2012 are...
Blood of Eden
Sloan Skye is a summer intern at the FBI. She got bumped from the Behavior Analysis Unit to the Paranormal Behavior Analysis Unit, a joke of a new department. They're tracking a vampire serial killer, but Skye doesn't believe in the supernatural. Of course she gets disabused of that notion, but it takes longer than you might hope.
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Jan 24 2013
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978-0-7582-7405-2
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Without a Net: the Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
Do you really need me to say an anthology was uneven? Do I really need to say it? Unfortunately, I do. I loved some of the chapters and was less taken with others. You might chalk up the difference to writing quality and/or to my personal taste. I prefer the contributions that make their point by telling a story, rather than with a straight up essay.
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Jan 18 2013
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1-58005-103-0
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Along for the Ride
A young adult novel about a smart loner girl's last summer before college, this book felt substantial while I was reading it, but ended up a teen romance. Not that a teen romance has to be a bad thing.
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Jan 17 2013
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978-0-14-241556-6
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Peanut
Ayun's first graphic novel (I can call her Ayun, because we're friends) is a story that should appeal to tweens about a girl who moves to a new school and tries to make herself more interesting by faking a dire peanut allergy.
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Jan 13 2012
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978-0-375-86590-9
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Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith
Like lots of people who watched the Summer (for the northern hemisphere, anyway) Olympics, I was immediately enamored by Gabby Douglas. She's so talented! Pretty! And her being Black in a sport disproportionately dominated by White athletes, at least per this USA Gymnastics Diversity Study is part of her appeal, especially considering how biased the media coverage was. Consider that Jordyn Weiber was the girl-to-beat going in, but Douglas is the one who won the Olympic trials.
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Jan 12 2012
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978-0-310-74061-2
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Six Categories
A.j.'s call for contributions to her Six Categories zine went more or less like this:
In the beginning of the novel Microserfs, Douglas Coupland has each of his characters list their dream Jeopardy! categories, fields of expertise such as "Career anxieties," "Cats," "Psychotic loser friends," and "Macintosh products." I can’t remember much else from this nearly twenty-year old novel, but these character "introductions" remain stuck in a shadowy corner of my memory. I’ve mentally made lists of my ideal Jeopardy! boards, with categories like "The Simpsons, Seasons 1 to 8" and “Postage” and "Job Dissatisfaction."
It's your turn to list your six ideal Jeopardy! categories that showcase your unique knowledge, quirks, neuroses, talents, habits, whatever.
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Jan 11 2012