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This YA novel, written by a 19-year-old (alarm bells!), is narrated by Doria, an Algerian teenager in the run-down, impoverished Paris suburbs. She lives alone with her mother after her father disappears back to Algeria to marry a younger woman who will hopefully bear him a son. Doria is bitter and cynical in [...]

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This is more accurately a squeeee than a review. ACM lent me the first five trades of Fables, a series of graphic novels by Bill Willingham, and I am ridiculously hooked. I had read the first one a long time ago and it didn’t grab me, but ACM insisted I would like it [...]

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