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Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: Thoroughly engaging story of frantic race to smuggle out a V-2
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A grafter and a dreamer, Shirley Jackson found that sweet spot between reality and magic
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A Little Bit Bad: One for the bath with a glass of wine, in the best possible way
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Seamus Heaney and Catholicism: An astute account of religion’s afterlife in poet’s work
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In Claudia Rankine’s Triage, the reader bears witness to an intense and unresolved debate
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The Life Swap by Jeananne Craig: Even the most minor characters get a satisfying arc as they face their flaws
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Shapechangers: Essays from Irish women quietly challenging how literary history is written
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