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a series every lover of crime fiction should read and follow; Atkinson’s stand-alone work is also of similar superb quality.

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A Little Queer Natural History showcases species from across the animal kingdom, such as the bicolor parrotfish, which can change biological sex during its lifetime, or the western lowland

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“Our senses don’t lie. Nature is good for us, and Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing and Touching Plants Is Good for Our Health is a brilliant read.”

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“Nothing is really as it seems and, as readers, we have to look for the meaning behind everyone’s motivation, adding to what is a fascinating plot set in an exotic locale.”

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“Fantasy depends on immersion. Without it, the magic remains out of reach.”

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Dogs and Monsters is, in spite of the pain it brings, a magnificent book.”

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“a phenomenal book, the conclusion to a magnificent trilogy as well-written and psychologically powerful as the Regeneration Trilogy, which raised Barker’s stature more than three decades a

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Brimhall’s Love Prodigal presents her flayed heart from wounds inflicted during a divorce with poetic verse that will linger like a perfume of the ethereal realm.

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“Like diving into a swimming pool filled with cold water, its hard at first and a bit a shock, but when one becomes accustomed to the temperature, it quickly becomes an enjoyable frolic.”

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“I found myself, in short, finding existing intolerable . . . I was in the grip of one might term a lethal neurosis.”

The title, Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey, hints at a serious critique of coding and Big Tech, but what emerges is a sort of literary algorithm that fails to “compile”—that is, to tran

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“Throughout Boyd’s novel, characters present with one face but turn out to be concealing significant, even entire, aspects of themselves.”

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