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Neighbourly Games 21 April 25 April 2025

More gaming with nearby friends.

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Trans Galactic Insurance, Andrew Moriarty 24 April 2025 - 2 comments

2017 SF, first of an ongoing series. Jake Stewart is studying at the Academy for space traders, but he's a poor scholarship kid and needs to make some extra cash. Fortunately he has friends who will help…

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The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison 23 April 2025

2025 fantasy, third of what I believe is still expected to be a trilogy. Thara Celehar lost his ability to speak with the recently dead, but continues to serve his hierarchy and his god.

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The Vampire and the Case of the Baleful Banshee, Heather G. Harris and Jilleen Dolbeare 22 April 2025

2024 paranormal fantasy, third novel of its series. Bunny Barrington, involuntary vampire and new-made police in a tiny supernatural town in Alaska, tries to work out who stole the gems that power the magical barrier.

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Death Mask, Ellis Peters 21 April 2025

1959 suspense/thriller. Evelyn Manville was jilted, and went to work abroad. A few years later, back in London and broke, he runs into his old flame, now a widow with a very troublesome son…

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The Weekly Challenge 317: The Friendly Acronym Song 20 April 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved finding acronyms and string similarity. (Note that this ends today.)

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Bonded in Death, J. D. Robb 19 April 2025 - 2 comments

2025 romance/SF/mystery; 60th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). A man is gassed to death in a limousine, for no obvious reason. But the killer leaves a note that gets Eve Dallas involved…

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Wolf Country, Mar Delaney 18 April 2025

2021 paranormal romance short novel. Laney finds a wolf caught in an illegal snare, but while she's freeing it it briefly becomes a naked woman…

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Double Share, Nathan Lowell 17 April 2025

2008 YA SF, fourth in its series. Ishmael Horatio Wang, now a freshly-graduated Third Mate, takes up a new post, a ship where everything is wrong.

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A Brush With Shadows, Anna Lee Huber 16 April 2025 - 1 comment

2018 historical mystery; sixth in Huber's Lady Darby series (post-Regency amateur detection). Gage and Lady Darby return to the house where Gage grew up, which he's been avoiding since his mother's funeral, as his cousin the heir has gone missing…

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