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Book #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 #126 was Envy by Sandra Brown. The back of the book reads: New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a bestseller when she sees one — even if it is a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him. Her trip
Read moreBook #125 was One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron. The back of the book reads: One Sunday morning four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman whom they all know leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous.
Read moreBook #124 was Sea Swept, the first book in Nora Roberts’ Chesapeake Bay series. The back of the book reads: A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight. . . After years
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