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    Review: The Atomic City Girls

    by Becky February 8, 2018
    written by Becky

    Story: The Atomic City Girls is the story of life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee – a government reservation designed and built to produce the uranium needed to create an atomic bomb. As part of the Manhattan Project, even the city …

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    What We’re Reading This Week

    by Joli February 7, 2018
    by Joli February 7, 2018

    We made it to Wednesday! We’re trying a little something different this week and chatting about what we’re reading about here on Wednesday, instead of Monday. Here’s what we all have our noses in on this hump day! Amber I …

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    Review: The Lost Castle

    by Becky February 6, 2018
    by Becky February 6, 2018

    Story: The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron is the tale of one castle’s impact on three women from very different generations. From the French Revolution we meet Aveline who is set to marry and become duchess of the castle until the …

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    Review: In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

    by Joli February 5, 2018
    by Joli February 5, 2018

    This book has been called “one of the most powerful books about grief ever written.” Grief is a thing in my own life, and I’ve been reading a lot about it lately, so I was really looking forward to picking …

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    Review: Artemis

    by Caleigh February 4, 2018
    by Caleigh February 4, 2018

    Andy Weir’s sophomore novel, Artemis, was released at the end of 2017, following his critically acclaimed The Martian which was published in 2012 with the movie quickly following on its heels. He also is responsible for the four page e-book …

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    Review: Exit West

    by Caleigh January 28, 2018
    by Caleigh January 28, 2018

    Exit West is the beautiful story of Nadia and Saheed, two young lovers from the Middle East, who come together during a time of militant uprising, and escape to “safer” refuge… only to find themselves struggling in the masses who …

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    Review: You Need A Budget

    by Amber January 25, 2018
    by Amber January 25, 2018

    Reading a book about budgeting and getting your finances on track at the beginning of the year was great. Always a resolution of mine to make better money choices. Right after reading You Need A Budget, I felt so much …

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    Review: The Underground Railroad

    by Becky January 23, 2018
    by Becky January 23, 2018

    Story: Colson Whitehead delivers the odyssey of Cora, a third generation slave working on a plantation in the heart of Georgia. A stray abandoned by her mother – a “successful” runaway, Cora fights and scrapes to make her way in …

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    The LQ Ladies’ Bookish Resolutions for 2018

    by Joli January 21, 2018
    by Joli January 21, 2018

    A new year, a new bookish slate. What will we read this year? How much will we read this year? We all have different ideas about what we’d like in terms of bookishness this year. We want to know, what’s …

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