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Lauren Mechling

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Hello there! I'm the author of many novels — and not only that but many kinds of novels, from a YA detective series and a proper literary novel about the ups and downs of female friendship to an interactive vampire thriller that ran as a serialization in an online magazine that the New York Times called “brilliant.” Not sure about that, but it was definitely bananas. I am especially fond of my latest work, The Memo, co-written with my dear friend Rachel Dodes. It’s a book about a woman who has a crushing sense that she never got the memo—and it turns out she is right. There was a memo she didn’t get. Literally. When Jenny shows up at her 15th college reunion, her old career counselor tracks her down and hands over the magic set of instructi ...more

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How Could She

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Hope by Andrew Ridker
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I generally have two or three books on the go. Once I started Hope, which has more life in it than some entire book piles, I was hooked and flew through it in a couple of days. The family at the center of the book is flawed and funny as can be, and t ...more
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This book is a marvel. I was less than sold on it when one of my book clubs selected it (it seemed precious from afar) and man oh man, was I proven wrong. Gunty can write prose to make your heart race solely on account of its strange beauty. Have put ...more
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Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
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Bianca Bosker should change her name to Bianca Bonkers. The lengths she goes to in order infiltrate secret underworlds, and the artfulness with which she relates her observations and findings, is truly extraordinary. She is is a living legend, and th ...more
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