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books, cineastes bookshelf, review henry holt, netgalley, the hounding, xenobe purvis

REVIEW: The Hounding

July 23, 2025

It’s a searingly hot summer in an unnamed year in the English countryside. And then people start hearing the howling, and someone claims to see something unnatural. Superstition and fear bake and crack in the summer sun as odd happenings continue.

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books, cineastes bookshelf, review mary anna evans, poisoned pen press, sourcebooks, the dark library

REVIEW: The Dark Library

June 16, 2025

The Dark Library is a grown-up Nancy Drew with a WWII homefront twist. Estella enlists the help of her friends — a librarian, a fellow scholar, a dressmaker, and a young man who just might be worthy — to hunt for clues of how her father spent more money than he earned and what might have happened to her mother.

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books, cineastes bookshelf, review cat who saved books, cat who saved the library, harpervia, sosuke natsukawa

REVIEW: The Cat Who Saved the Library

June 12, 2025

The Cat Who Saved The Library is a worthy volume in this delightful series. Tiger the talking tabby cat is back with a teammate to rescue stolen books from oblivion.

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books, cineastes bookshelf, review diving, history, i live underwater, max gene nohl, wisconsin historical society press

REVIEW: I Live Underwater

June 9, 2025

Nohl was a pioneer in underwater apparatus, an adventurer, a treasure-hunter, an inventor, and thrill-seeker. He and his friends dove a few wrecks, looking for valuable cargo or safes rumored to be full of cash, but his most remarkable contributions to diving were his innovations and experiments.

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ACCENT: V is for Venom

June 2, 2025

Many of Christie’s devotees are aware that she worked in a chemist’s shop during WWI. They might not realize she was a quick study and learned a great deal about the chemistry and compounding of different medicines.

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