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The year’s range of Jewish holidays and celebrations are presented in this repeating, rhyming chant that features key succinct elements for each...Both lovely and eminently useful.

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This little bit of bedtime foolery feels a little incomplete, but it should strike a chord—and it’s far wittier than the similarly themed Go the Fuck to Sleep.

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“Not Quite a Genius” isn’t bound by any particular convention. Dern roams hither and yon with regards to whether something is truth, fiction or somewhere in-between. The collection is funny, obviously, but it is also smart and thoughtful and honest. There’s a lot of genuine feeling here – and the best comedy comes from a place of truth.

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“The Clockwork Dynasty” is a lot of things. It has a steampunk sensibility. There are elements of both science fiction and fantasy at work. There’s even a whiff of historical fiction. Plus there’s some deep-down conspiracy thriller stuff. It’s a lot – but it works.

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The most successfully drawn people are Alec and Meg; Lamprell has perfect pitch when it comes to marital discord...But by the end, this guidebook reads like it has gone through a Cuisinart, leaving a choppy, chaotic mess. Arrivederci, Roma. The wise reader will stick with Fodor’s next time.

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There are flashes of the whimsical magic of Harry Potters past in Jack Thorne’s script, but jokes occasionally fail to land and solemn scenes are robbed of their gravity. Without the directorial hand of John Tiffany or the guiding voice of JK Rowling, it feels like something is missing.

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The serious questions that The Followers poses about love, faith and responsibility blend with Wait’s propulsive plotting and the complicity she creates through the power of her writing to form a great surging shout of a novel, which left me, in the end, in tears.

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“Meddling Kids” is smart and scary, with chuckles and shudders aplenty. It’s the best kind of mashup – one that doesn’t use its premise as a crutch. Don’t get me wrong – the concept is awesome, but that’s not all there is. Cantero uses his brilliant central idea to spin out a story that proves worthy of such an outstanding origin.

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“The Delirium Brief” is typical Stross and typical Laundry Files. It is smart and funny and weird and scary, driven by engaging, endearing characters and a vividly-detailed world that has been built with exquisite care...frankly, I envy those readers out there who have the opportunity to read this series from the beginning for the first time.

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The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel by Charles Stross

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Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” is a smart, subversive work that somehow reads as sophisticated even when repeating the phrase “scaly green ass” on seemingly every page. It’s “Catcher in the Rye” spiced with Anne McCaffrey, “Eragon” by way of John Irving, with a whiff of Douglas Adams for good measure.

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Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel by Gabe Hudson

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Semple avoids patronising readers by providing a simple answer to Eleanor’s problems. The climax is surprisingly unthinkable, but as optimistic and tentatively hopeful as its title suggests.

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...Peter Parker’s new book is much more than a biography, and having lured us into Housman’s life with a magpie’s eye for detail, he then sets out on a tour of Housman Country...

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Roxane Gay’s luminous new memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” is a profound example of this theory in praxis. An uncompromising look at the specific, often paradoxical details of her embodiment, the book examines the experience of living in her body in the world as through a kaleidoscope from every angle...

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A compelling read, slowed down somewhat by the name dropping of places and goods, it tends toward the ostentatious, yet the sentiments and disparity of the well-developed characters carry the plot to a satisfying conclusion.

NY Journal of Books

The Identicals: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand

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Camino Island will find its audience, no doubt, but not necessarily the same audience that has cherished John Grisham’s legal thrillers in the past. Nor will it stand the test of time.

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Woods, who’s never been shy about recycling material from his hero’s earlier adventures, here reprises the plot of Carnal Curiosity (2014) and manages to resurrect some much older matter as well. The fade-out, however, promises new developments that follow a predictably inflated curve.

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As in other Andrews books, descriptions are utilitarian, but the dialogue shines with humor and wit. I have just one more minor nitpick—while the entire rest of the book is narrated by Nevada in first person, the epilogue switches to third person in Rogan’s viewpoint. That felt jarringly late in the book to introduce his POV.

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It’s a book that will work best for Sedaris completists...For newcomers, however, it’s really not the place to start. For all their energy and comic sensibility, these diaries don’t really do justice to Sedaris’s unique gift as a storyteller.

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“Extraordinary Adventures” is a thoughtful, poignant story of love and life, a deft bildungsroman depicting one man’s detour from the humdrum in order to embrace the possibilities that he never suspected he might want. A strong (as usual) offering from Daniel Wallace.

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With her past couple of titles, Roberts (as opposed to her typically grittier moniker, J.D. Robb) is moving into more complex and darker storytelling, to terrific effect.

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