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Book #4 was The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman. The back of the book reads: From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning. Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle
Read moreBook #129 was Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen. The back of the book reads: JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she’s still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big-$28 million, to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: There’s another
Read moreBook #127 was Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The back of the book reads: Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . .
Read moreBook #109 was Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne. The back of the book reads: From one of America’s most celebrated writers, an incandescent love story set in a small American town overtaken by the celebrity machine that comes to feast on a big-time criminal trial. In the town of Regent, a lurid murder becomes a magnet for the media, the best and worst of
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