The Scholastic Book Fair Phenomenon: Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss & The Rise Of the 80’s and 90’s Teen Fiction Series.

This book from Gabrielle Moss explores the huge selling phenomenon that was book series for kids and teens in the 80's and 90's. Books like RL Stine's Goosebumps, The Babysitters Club and The Saddle Club were hugely popular, long running series with little gimmicks that sold like hot cakes, targeting a previously untapped market, essentially …

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The Cemetery Of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

From the bestselling author of In The Time Of The Butterflies and How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, comes The Cemetery of Untold Stories. In this novel, author Alma decides to create a cemetery for the stories she will never finish in her lifetime, after she inherits a plot of land in her native …

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She’s A Killer by Kirsten McDougall

In future New Zealand, wealthy immigrants are creating chaos as they flee climate change, generally driving up food prices, illegally buying land and creating a huge divide between the have and have nots. In this environment, Alice, a 30 year old just one IQ point short of genius and who is generally an underachieving in …

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The Antique Hunter’s Guide To Murder by C L Miller

Freya Lockwood was an antique hunter twenty years ago, finding stolen artifacts and returning them to their rightful owners, but a tragedy made her leave that life behind. Now, her once mentor has been killed and he's left a trail of clues in his antique store leading her to an retreat at a mansion in …

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What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama

A set of lightly intertwined stories about people from different stages and walks of life who are looking for a new direction to take or are facing change. The characters all end up walking into the small local library, where they are led to Sayuri Komachi, a special librarian, who asks them what they are …

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