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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley

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In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950 — and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home... For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.

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