Notes from the Cheering Section

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A number of books are coming out right now by writers I know and admire. Two of these I gave a glowing blurb, so I'm especially thrilled to see them getting such great reviews. 
Here's a charming one for Mary Sharratt's Daughters of the Witching Hill , from Passages to the Past:

"Don't you love it when you start a book and immediately get sucked in just from the first few sentences? Well, that's what happened when I began to read Daughters of the Witching Hill. This book seriously had me...