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November 1, 2017

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published November 1, 2017. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in November 2017.

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Bye Bye Big!

by Pallas Gates McCorquodale

It all begins with a great big frog and a tiny wee mosquito, but "Bye Bye Big!", from Margaret Read MacDonald and Gerald Fierst, soon explodes in colors, sights, and sounds as a few simple words form an increasingly sizable circular... Read More

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The Pond

by Pallas Gates McCorquodale

Dark and still, unfinished and frozen, the backyard pond reminds a young boy of his father’s recent death, but as the weather thaws and new life grows, the grieving family takes comfort in its tadpoles, newts, and lilies. "The Pond" is... Read More

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The Out-of-Sorts

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

These stories offer a vivid glimpse of the lives of Rust Belt inhabitants. “Everything with a beating heart knows when aloneness has come to stay,” says a married woman living above the burning core of Centralia, Pennsylvania. She... Read More

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Alone on the Shield

by Jeremiah Rood

The Canadian borderlands, and their lakes, rivers, and portages, are rendered with a journalistic eye for detail. Kirk Landers’s "Alone on the Shield" is an adventure story mixed with a love affair set deep in the Canadian wilderness.... Read More

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Into the White

by Catherine Thureson

"Into the White" is a thoughtful and satisfying account of the the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole. "Into the White" tells the harrowing and tragic tale of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. The book... Read More

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The Amendment Killer

by John M. Murray

It’s timely, tense, and a perfect read in these uncertain times. "The Amendment Killer" is a contemporary political thriller benefiting from heavy research, a chilling villain, and a timely message. As the US Supreme Court begins... Read More

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